What's with sunglasses on top of your head?

[mangeorge]

People have been doing it forever. It is not just a place to carry them. Not always, anyway. I've seen people adjust them into their "look" while looking into a mirror.
wearing sunglasses at night (ala Corey Hart/Pete Burns? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6k0kMVcCI)) and indoors is one thing, but at that looks kinda okay. Kinda. On top of your head though, indoors and at night, just looks funny.
On the back of the head looks better. Less funny, anyway.
So what, in your opinion, prompts this strange behavior?
Funny = odd.
Peace,
mangeorge

[Fetchund]

I wear them on my head when I am going back and forth inside and out a lot. It is easier to flip them up and down. (Of course, I work outdoors, so it isn't a fashion statement for me, it is my work clothes!)

[Queen Tonya]

Well, Malibu Barbie always did it, and she's cool...... :cool:

[mangeorge]

I wear them on my head when I am going back and forth inside and out a lot. It is easier to flip them up and down. (Of course, I work outdoors, so it isn't a fashion statement for me, it is my work clothes!)
No, I'm talking about so-called fashion, like Queen Tonya's Malibu Barbie up there.
I wonder if she's related to Latifa?

[Cowgirl Jules]

Besides being convenient to stash them there, they also hold the hair back out of my eyes if it's windy.

But don't ask me, I'm the opposite of fashionable.

[Rick]

Mine don't fold into my pocket worth a damn. (http://images.backcountry.com/images/items/medium/OAK0187/OMSIBRI.jpg)

[Auntbeast]

I'm more curious about propping them on your forehead. The second most annoying customer we have does that. I don't think I've ever in my life tried to see if my forehead was prominent enough to hold up a pair of glasses. (Yes, to me it looks as if they are trying to accent their neanderthal past)

[Alistair McCello]

On the back of the head looks better. Less funny, anyway.I've always thought opposite this. Back of the head strikes me as quite bizarre. On top of the head on the other hand is just a place to flip them up when they are unneeded. Now the wearing of them like this indoors, or at night, as an actual style just strikes me as a (admittedly strange) progression from putting them there as a convenience.

[SurrenderDorothy]

it works the same as a headband. It keeps the hair out of your eyes and away from your face.

And even when it's just a place to keep my glasses, I don't want my hair to look stupid around it, so it wouldn't be out of the question to adjust them in a mirror.

[Sitnam]

It just seems like something a middle aged, appearance conscious , fake tanned, silver haired, 'big operator' male would do. Along with wearing gold chains and talking about your big motorboat.

[Hostile Dialect]

In high school, I had a female classmate who did this, and it only made her sexier. Why it really worked for her, I can't tell you, but it fit her look.

[enipla]

It just seems like something a middle aged, appearance conscious , fake tanned, silver haired, 'big operator' male would do. Along with wearing gold chains and talking about your big motorboat.Not at all. My sunglasses aren't a fashion statement. They are a necessity.

I live at very high altitude in very bright sunlight. 6 months of the year it’s being reflected off snow too.

I wear them on top of my head. As others have said, they are very easy to just flip down between inside and outside.

I also have a strap on them, but it’s still just easier to stick ‘em on top.

I think it looks weird on the back of the head. Seems that people that wear hats do this a lot.

[racer72]

My question to those that do this, how do you keep the lens clean? My hair is fairly normal, maybe even on the dry side but the times I have put any eyewear on top of my head they end up smudged and need cleaning. My prescription safety glasses I wear at work are the worst when it comes to this problem.

[fisha]

What? Am I missing something here? I wear sunglasses almost every day, and run inside and out, and am always putting them up or down. This is odd behavior? I also put them up when I talk to people, so I can look them in the eye. Yes, it does keep hair out of your face and yeah, it can look pretty sexy, too.

Where the hell else would I put them?

And back of the head? So it'd look like cousin It? What?

[don't ask]

Don't beat about the bush. You are really asking, "are the sunglasses on top of the head people wankers, unlike us take them off and put them in our pocket types?"

The answer is yes.

[mangeorge]

and yeah, it can look pretty sexy, too.

That's what I question. Not the utility stuff. Does wearing glasses on your head look sexy? Maybe I have a skewed libido.
I've seen sexy people wear them atop their head, but I've never thought they looked sexy because of that. Especially in profile. Of course one can't easily see one's own profile in a mirror.
Ever seen a bald-headed guy wearing sunglasses on his forehead from a distance? :D

[mangeorge]

Don't beat about the bush. You are really asking, "are the sunglasses on top of the head people wankers, unlike us take them off and put them in our pocket types?"

The answer is yes.
I was trying to be tender toward shaky egos. :p

[Millit the Frail]

I used to do this all the time in college. I had a few months where it was a sort of trademark, where I wore a different pair of all the time, mainly just on my head like a headband. They were mostly the wire frames/pastel colored lenses style, but not circular-shaped.

I've never been very fashionable, and there was kind of a pattern of people having "fashion trademarks" at my school, so it made sense then. If you can't be trendy, then be the girl who always wears a cape or be the guy who wears a fedora, or a bowtie, or a jedi robe. I was sunglasses-head-girl. I'm a little puzzled over it now, but hey, I was, like, 21.

[twickster]

Convenience. I actually have two pairs of glasses I need accessible, but don't need on my face all the time -- reading glasses and shades. I'll often stick one of them on top of my head and the other into the neck of my shirt/T-shirt/sweater/whatever. I sometimes have both in my neckline -- but rarely have both on top of my head. The head spot goes to whichever got there first, so sometime the shades are on top and the reading glasses at my neck, and sometimes vice versa.

I came to terms with my utter lack of chic a couple of decades ago, though.

[fisha]

Wow, I had no idea.

Hmm, I'll have to observe the location of sunglasses behavior in others. But hey, thanks for calling me unfashionable and immature.

Won't change my behavior, it's too ingrained and convenient. Perhaps I'll start wearing socks with sandals next.

[jjimm]

I use Dapper Dan, so I can't do that as it smears the lenses.

Instead I hang them off my jade Maori fish-hook pendant. Sometimes I forget to tuck it back into my shirt, and have often turned up to business meetings wearing a suit and a prominent necklace, looking like a resentful besuited hippie wannabe who has had to become "the man".

[BarnOwl]

I'll tolerate just about anything anyone wants to do with his/her sunglasses - except - CSI Miami's Horatio Asshole Cane who uses his squeezed-together temples and the pompous donning of his sunglasses as super melodramatic moments to punctuate his farcical poses and super-hammy line deliveries.

By comparison, Horatio makes William Shatner, now Travel Agency Pimp, slam dunk Oscar material.

[twickster]

... looking like a resentful besuited hippie wannabe who has had to become "the man".
Sometimes one's appearance matches one's real self ... :p

[jjimm]

Sometimes one's appearance matches one's real self ... :pYa got me bang to rights. ;)

[Otto]

If you can't be trendy, then be... the guy who wears... a jedi robe.
No. Do not be that guy.

[jjimm]

No. Do not be that guy.Seconded.

In my hippy days I didn't have a coat, so I wore a Cherokee poncho around the place. In Cardiff, Wales. :smack: Just don't do it.

[StuffLikeThatThere]

I wear sunglasses on top of my head all the time. I hate squinting, so I like having them on when I am outside or am driving. When I get to the grocery store, I get out of the car wearing them. When I step inside the grocery store, I think, "Oh, I don't need my sunglasses inside." So I shove them on top of my head. It's really not a fashion statement; it's a convenient place to put them. If my hair is down, they keep strands off my face as an added bonus. Also, the kind I like best are a little curved, so they don't stay on a shirt front satisfactorily.

I have, however, seen at least a couple of women in my life who were wearing obnoxiously expensive (and quite ugly, IMO, but whatever) sunglasses as a headband, with no practical purpose at all. I think those women are very silly. To be fair, they probably think I am hideously frumpy, so we're even.

As to the glasses getting smudged, I don't have a problem with that. The only problem I have is if my hair is still wet from the shower and I store them up there. If it's a warm day, they will be all steamed up and I have to wipe them. Usually on my shirt, because I'm so classy.

But if it makes you feel better to think that I'm odd because I shove my sunglasses up there when I'm not using them, you go right ahead. It's no skin off my nose.

[mangeorge]

But if it makes you feel better to think that I'm odd because I shove my sunglasses up there when I'm not using them, you go right ahead. It's no skin off my nose.
Hmmm, SLTT, [Travis Bickle]Are you talking to me[/Travis Bickle]? :dubious:
If so, then no, I don't think anyone's odd for that. I think some may be a little odd for doing so as a fashion statement, but what I think is no skin off their noses either.
The First Ammendment says so. The same one that says I get to think they're (somewhat) odd. And be right! I mean, look at it with a critical eye. Try to envision Rick's sunglasses on top of someone's head. At night. In a chic club. :eek:
Peace,
mangeorge

[BiblioCat]

What? Am I missing something here? I wear sunglasses almost every day, and run inside and out, and am always putting them up or down. This is odd behavior? I'm also trying to figure out why this is considered odd. Like you, I spend my day running inside and outside, and I definitely need my sunglasses while outside. They look funny stuffed into my shirt pocket. Most of the time I just shove them up on my head. Everyone does it.
It's not a fashion statement - it's so I know where they are.

[Rick]

You won't find them there at night, only during the day when I go inside.

[mangeorge]

You won't find them there at night, only during the day when I go inside.
:p ;)

[mangeorge]

I'm also trying to figure out why this is considered odd. Like you, I spend my day running inside and outside, and I definitely need my sunglasses while outside. They look funny stuffed into my shirt pocket. Most of the time I just shove them up on my head. Everyone does it.
It's not a fashion statement - it's so I know where they are.
It's lonely out here, being the only one who actually reads these posts.
Okay, not the only one, but still.

[LVgeogeek]

My sunglasses tend to live on top of my head during the day. Mostly so they are easily assessable when going in and out of places. The sun is ridiculously bright here and I wear them even if I am only going to be outside for a few minutes.

The only time they are on my head at night for example if I go to the bar after work on Friday and the sun is still up they are usually still on my head when I leave after the sun is down.

I wouldn't wear them as a fashion accessory to a night club at 10 P.M. That would be weird. I might have them with me, either in my car or handbag, in case by the time I am heading home the sun is coming up.

[Millit the Frail]

No. Do not be that guy.

It was a college indiscretion! Lots of us did silly stuff. Now I wear my sunglasses on my face, like this --> :cool:

[Richard Pearse]

I have a wallet and keys in my pockets so they're out, I find them uncomfortable hanging off my T-shirt collar, and I think the little strap thing would be uncomfortable under the ear-phones I wear at work. That leaves on top of my head. I only wear them there when I'm inside, otherwise the glasses are either on my eyes or left at home.

[fisha]

Just to throw another wrench into the works, when the kids were smaller, and I'd always have to lean over to tend them, I'd hook my sunglasses on the back of my shirt, instead of the front. That way they wouldn't fall out if I leaned over. I don't know how many countless people had to point out to me that my sunglasses were back there.

I'm sure this behavior makes me a candidate for ridicule as well. It was functional.

[StuffLikeThatThere]

Hmmm, SLTT, [Travis Bickle]Are you talking to me[/Travis Bickle]? :dubious:
If so, then no, I don't think anyone's odd for that. I think some may be a little odd for doing so as a fashion statement, but what I think is no skin off their noses either.
The First Ammendment says so. The same one that says I get to think they're (somewhat) odd. And be right! I mean, look at it with a critical eye. Try to envision Rick's sunglasses on top of someone's head. At night. In a chic club. :eek:
Peace,
mangeorge

Eeep! I was trying to be funny, not confrontational. Maybe didn't work out so well, though.

Likewise, peace, man. :cool:

[Swallowed My Cellphone]

On top of your head though, indoors and at night, just looks funny.Uh... sometimes I'm out all day. I was wearing them to shield my eyes from the sun. Then night time came. I moved indoors. I have no other place to put them. They'd get crunched in my pocket. Where else should I put them?

I used to hook them in the front of my t-shirt, bu once I bent down to tie my shoe, they fell out and got scratched.

You're saying "back of the head" looks better? It makes people look like Cousin It when you'r standing behind them.

ETA: I also don't wear shirts that have a breast pocket. I'd tuck them in there if I did as long as they didn't fall out easily. (See "hooked on t-shirt" above.)

[mangeorge]

Eeep! I was trying to be funny, not confrontational. Maybe didn't work out so well, though.

Likewise, peace, man. :cool:
Me too. I've been waiting forever to slip in that Taxi Driver line. ;)