# Girls who wear glasses **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 30, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308 "2000-11-30T03:30:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/21 "2000-11-30T07:50:05Z")
glasses…drool… No, seriously! I’m sorry but I think women just look so much more attractive with glasses on. Maybe it makes them seem more intelligent. Maybe it accentuates the most expresive area of a woman’s face. Maybe there is no reason, it just makes them look beautiful. I haven’t yet pinpointed a reason, all I know is how I feel. glasses = good. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/22 "2000-11-30T08:45:32Z")
Oh yeah. Being a spectacle wearing geek myself, I appreciate the spectacle wearing geek of the opposite sex just fiiiiine. Indeedly. Just this evening, on the train home, there was this wonderfully cute young lady, wearing glasses and a business suit, with legs that were just… wow! And her hair was so… yes! And her eyes so adorably… yum! I’ll no doubt never see her again. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/23 "2000-11-30T09:24:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*I like girls who wear glasses. I think it makes them look “studious, intelligent, cute, etc.” > > But then, I like small-breasted women with brown or black hair too. Kind of the opposite of what a stereotypical male likes. > \*\* You would have loved my college girlfeiend… 5 foot, black hair, small breasts, glasses and INCREDIBLE blue eyes. Plus, of course, “studious, intelligent, cute, etc.” God, what a great combination. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/24 "2000-11-30T11:27:49Z")
I definitely have a ‘thing’ for women with glasses. Fortunately, my wife wears 'em. And **Yue Han** , you get double bonus points for bringing up _A Wrinkle in Time_. After forty years, it’s still one of the all-time great stories. ---
**Author:** ![el\_mono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@el\_mono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/el_mono)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/25 "2000-11-30T11:38:57Z")
Wholeheartedly agree with the OP. Something awful sexy 'bout a pair of fasionable specs on a gorgeous women. The beauty is somehow accentuated. I’ve always had this fantasy about being in a library and suddenly… Oops, sorry, I thought for a minute that this was the Penthouse letters message board. Originally posted by elmwood- Two words: Bailey Quarters. Two more words: No shit! She was reason enough for tuning in to WKRP religiously. The longer I’m around here the more I feel like I am among friends. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/26 "2000-11-30T12:13:12Z")
I have little to add here except that I _adore_ women who wear glasses…in fact (thinking back through dating history) I don’t think I’ve ever dated, or even asked out, a woman who didn’t wear glasses. Not that I wouldn’t ask out a spectacle-less woman, mind, just that I haven’t so far. ---
**Author:** ![broccoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/27 "2000-11-30T13:17:54Z")
either way. Glasses, no glasses. Is she cute with them? without them? That’s what matters I suppose (sure it sound superficial, but who’s ever seen a dawg and went “Hey, I could have a great life with him/her” before knowing them) broc ---
**Author:** ![Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/779978/32.png) [@Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumba_The_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/28 "2000-11-30T13:31:35Z")
My SO insists that he likes girls with glasses. When I first met him I only wore my glasses when absolutely necessary. The rest of the time I just walked around not seeing very well. He kept telling me how nice my glasses looked on me and encouraging me to wear them more. I am not sure if he just got tired of seeing me squint or if he really thought they looked good on me. Whichever it was it worked. I wear my glasses all the time now and I can see! And I think I look stunning. If so many men like women in glasses why do the “pretty” girls in movies never wear them? The first think that they do in a movie when they want to make over the geeky girl is take off her glasses. Sandra Bullock with glasses on is so ugly no man would ever want her, take the glasses off and she has men tripping over her. I just don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/29 "2000-11-30T13:48:22Z")
> [@](#): > > You would have loved my college girlfeiend. Phone number, dammit! I need the phone number! > [@](#): > > Two words. Bailey Quarters. Definitely. > [@](#): > > What Johnny L.A. said, although I’ll take blondes too. Ditto. Really, it’s more about what’s _inside_. (Biting my tongue so I don’t spoil the real sentiment with the obvious joke.) > [@](#): > > If so many men like women in glasses why do the “pretty” girls in movies never wear them? The first think that they do in a movie when they want to make over the geeky girl is take off her glasses. A guess: In the movies, the women who wear glasses are a little shy and vulnerable. The he-man shows her she has no reason to be self-conscious about her looks. A bit chavinistic, I think. But it’s nice to make people feel good about themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/30 "2000-11-30T13:51:45Z")
BTW: I do wear glasses, but I only need to wear them when I fly. (Actually, I could get a class 3 medical certificate and I wouldn’t need to. But I want to get a commercial license and that requires a class 2 medical.) ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/31 "2000-11-30T13:57:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elmwood \* > \*\*Two words. Bailey Quarters. \*\* Hell, yeah. She was **way** hotter than Jennifer. I am a big fan of the “sexy librarian/bookworm” paradigm, as my wife (who wears glasses) will tell you. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/32 "2000-11-30T14:19:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elmwood \* > \*\*Two words. Bailey Quarters. \*\* Droooool. Oh, and Lisa Loeb? Yum. > [@](#): > > **If so many men like women in glasses why do the “pretty” girls in movies never wear them? The first think that they do in a movie when they want to make over the geeky girl is take off her glasses. Sandra Bullock with glasses on is so ugly no man would ever want her, take the glasses off and she has men tripping over her. I just don’t get it.** Well, 1. Sandra Bullock isn’t very pretty and I’ll be damned if I know why anyone thinks she’s a sex symbol, 2. I would suspect, absent a controlled test, that the same pair of glasses on the same person would look much better in real life than on film, and 3. Coming out from behind the glasses is a symbol not for getting prettier, but for emerging from behind a wall. When a character in the movies takes her glasses off, that means, more than anything else, that they’re gaining self-confidence and stepping forward to take charge. Part of the “Pygmalion” paradigm is that the person being changed grows beyond the control of the Pygmalion. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/33 "2000-11-30T14:25:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nacho4Sara \* > The moral of the story is, you guys are making me feel better. Maybe one day I will be able to wear them in public and not feel hideous. 🙂 Nacho, the reason I like girls in glasses (and believe me, I do), is because deep down, I’m hoping that she’ll look up, let her hair down and reveal her cute, studious self to be a ravishingly hot sexpot who wants me to be her boy toy. That’s usually the point at which I wake up. ---
**Author:** ![Schieschkopf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Schieschkopf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schieschkopf)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/34 "2000-11-30T14:32:18Z")
They wear studious looking clothes, I dig the catholic school-girl look (obviously not on catholic school girls though, THAT’s ILLEGAL! :P). I also dig the black frames, pony tails, or pig tails, but then again, a pretty girl in any major “themed” outfit will probably look sexy to me. As a reference, see the movie Bedazzled with a focus on Elizabeth Hurly for all of the popular theme’s (police officer, etc.). Or for a good school girl look, Selma Hayek in Dogma (when she was dancing) was pretty damn sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/35 "2000-11-30T14:37:58Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Coming out from behind the glasses is a symbol not for getting prettier, but for emerging from behind a wall. When a character in the movies takes her glasses off, that means, more than anything else, that they’re gaining self-confidence and stepping forward to take charge. Part of the “Pygmalion” paradigm is that the person being changed grows beyond the control of the Pygmalion. That’s what I wanted to say. Damned caffiene difficiency! BTW: **Nacho4Sara** is cute. :o ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/36 "2000-11-30T14:59:09Z")
Ah, to find others who share my passion is a truly great experience. Thank you so much! As I’ve told my friends before, they can’t work miracles but glasses on a cute girl make her even prettier. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/37 "2000-11-30T15:26:25Z")
My fiancee just got glasses after years of arguing that they would make her look funny. She looks adorable in them! Sometimes she puts them on with a schoolgirl outfit and we… ummmm nevermind. It’s a whole other thread 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/38 "2000-11-30T17:01:35Z")
Count me among the nerd lovers. 😉 [Butthead voice]Chicks with glasses are hot! [/Butthead voice] Now the glasses _do_ need to have some cool frames, though. Spend a little extra dough and get some nice, stylish frames. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/39 "2000-11-30T17:11:49Z")
Argh! Why must I agree with everyone??? Yes, I think most women look fine in glasses - both sunglasses and regular spectacles. It does amplify the eyes and tends to hide wrinkles under them. Any guy who won’t make a pass at a lady in glasses in missing out. Just ask Marlowe in \* The Big Sleep. \* ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308/40 "2000-11-30T17:21:05Z")
My wife does wear them occasionally. And I’ve made more that a few passes at her. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-glasses/43308.md?page=3)