Carte wanted nothing that would appear too garish or gaudy to his target, middle-class audience. The streets are populated by middle-aged women in dowdy floral dresses carrying garish umbrellas. Critics of neo-eclectic architecture see the style as pretentious, wasteful and/or garish, and unoriginal. Florentines stopped wearing garish colours, and many women took oaths to become nuns. Fauvist artist Henri Matisse produced powerful portraits using non-naturalistic, even garish, colors for skin tones. The Copacabana was a Samba-based concept car, featuring body elements painted in garish colors. They found the sprites to be simple, the colors garish, and the music repetitive. Ties became wider, returning to their width, sometimes with garish colors and designs. Sanderson was best known for wearing garish plaid sports jackets on the sidelines. A garish tie completed the picture of the dressed-up Goober. Red and the brighter greens are usually considered "unconventional" and "garish". Hamilton never married and presented a rough, garish appearance. His second book, "Hotel LaChapelle" (1999), was described as a "garish, sexy, enchanting trip". The artwork on M.I.A.'s releases has long been known for being garish. If you go to Pompeii, you're struck by how garish it is, even now.