This sentence from my previous paragraph is a blatant blunder, for good taste AND bad taste depend on each other to be: No day without night, no yes without no, etc.
I was expecting someone's rebuke, but in its absence, here is mine.
If I had to rewrite the paragraph, moreover, instead of the last word (i.e. restraint) perhaps it would read "equanimity".

Now, Fred: please tell me how do you feel about the (good or bad) taste of these two necklaces.
The first one is made with Venetian cylinder beads and French jet, with tiny gilded silver beads, all of them strung on gilded safety pins, hanging fom a gilded linkless Indian chain.
On the second one you can see: small bauxite beads, white and blue large Dogon, and these other smaller, undescript white trade beads that are coming also from Africa. Strung on a cord of thick white cotton threads.(The assembly echoeing the colors of a faded Chevron of sorts).
Chose a word from this list to adequately qualify them : hideous/revolting, plain/bland, --/--.
Do not ask ME: motherly love is blind...(As you may infer, what I am actually asking is: are these two necklaces examples of artistic miscarriages?).