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Is it just me, or are heavier vintage style frames becoming more popular among fashion followers these days?
Is it just me, or are heavier vintage style frames becoming more popular among fashion followers these days?
Is it just me, or are heavier vintage style frames becoming more popular among fashion followers these days?
The horn rim thing is interesting to me. As a grade school kid in the early-mid 70's, I had to wear glasses and the only frames available for me (apparently) were horn rims. Um, "popular" doesn't seem to be a term I recall my classmates using. After many years of not wearing glasses, in the last couple years I've started wearing bifocals. I am thinking I did my time with the horn rims and I'll take a pass this time 'round. Wondering/hoping when the time comes for new glasses if I can find a frame kind of like President Truman used to have.
As recently as my Freshman year of college six years ago I was chided for wearing horn rims because they were "BCGs" ("Birth control glasses") and told by numerous people that they not only made me look like a serial killer* but would actively dash any hopes of ever enjoying a meaningful relationship with a member of the opposite sex (I was too embarrassed at the time to point out that I'd been wearing a pair when I met my first girlfriend). It's funny that such a short time later they're the "in" thing.
* It seems that to most of the people I knew when I was younger, me + glasses = serial killer, because it was the comment I got to every pair of glasses I ever owned except a round pair of tortoise shell glasses. Then again, I did used to have an awful taste in frames.
I hate that everything today is sexualized.
Have a beard? It's a rapist beard.
Have a mustache? You're obviously gay or a pedophile.
Have "different" eyeglasses? You're obviously a sex offender.
It's a very Generation X thing it seems, turning everything they don't like that their parents might've worn into something perversely sexual. See videos like "Rapist eyeglasses", "Pedophile beard", "Pedophile mustache", "Creepy mustache" (which is just a video of guys with pencil mustaches). Anything that doesn't fit the metrosexual, "new male", goateed mold is considered somehow perverse or creepy.
I hate that everything today is sexualized.
Have a beard? It's a rapist beard.
Have a mustache? You're obviously gay or a pedophile.
Have "different" eyeglasses? You're obviously a sex offender.
It's a very Generation X thing it seems, turning everything they don't like that their parents might've worn into something perversely sexual. See videos like "Rapist eyeglasses", "Pedophile beard", "Pedophile mustache", "Creepy mustache" (which is just a video of guys with pencil mustaches). Anything that doesn't fit the metrosexual, "new male", goateed mold is considered somehow perverse or creepy.
I think I've also mentioned this source elsewhere here, but for a variety of vintage glasses, there's Ed Welch's shop in Maine. A dizzying array of glasses going back to the 18th century. It's like walking in to an old eyewear haberdashery----um, if that existed, ahem. I think you'll enjoy kicking around the shop. http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/index.html
My old TARTs came today. Very happy I am too! The fit was great with the 46 width.
Cookie, who do you use to fit lenses?