Show beauty standards alter with years says betty wells cy by BETTY WELLS E TACH ACH generation and almost ev A cry individual feels pretty superior on the subject of taste in short what we like is good taste while bad taste is the prerogative of the other person bad taste always something associated with somebody else rather than ourselves but what about the person we accuse perhaps in fact very probably he thinks the same thing about us and rarely indeed if ever does ane one generation fail to scorn the taste of the preceding generation broadly taste reflects standards of beauty yet we constantly hear authoritative artists and decorators say that there have been throughout art history certain recognized standards of beauty that can be accepted as beauty we are convinced that there are no hard and fast standards no set definitions that beauty is a spiritual quality like love that it is individual and ephemeral like happiness that we cant measure it or malie make rules about it so we try not to be glib about our taste and so positive about what is beautiful and what is ugly because time and tastes change and bedont we weN dont see why we must consider our taste so superior to that of the gay nineties just because it is different if we like it enough 0 by betty wells service |