After reading this thread, I’m wondering if getting a pair of plain-lens glasses would change my image. Is there really any difference between that and growing a mustache or a beard or changing the kind of clothes I wear?
I had that same feeling initially when I saw D’borah on The Voice wearing those fake glasses. But then I saw her face without the glasses, and her face is totally nondescript. If she didn’t have that affectation, she wouldn’t be able to stand out much. After I noticed that, I gave it more of a pass.
I haven’t noticed it other than that one instance.
Around here, they were doing it before it became a hipster thing, as an honor to a local football player who went pro, who always had to wear these big black glasses, who died in a tragic accident. When you’re handing out something for a memorial, it’s cheaper for them not to have lenses. My sister still has hers.
Also, the point of hipster fashion is to appear cheap. It’s supposed to look like you took your mom’s old glasses and took the lenses out. Or, at least, that was the point before it became mindless conformity to be different.
People hand out party favors at wakes?
It was a hipster thing before you were born. People did it in the 80s when I was in college. I remember Sylvester Stallone generating some mild controversy in the early 90s for wearing fake wire framed glasses to look smart.
As a glasses wearer, it has always annoyed me too. It’s like using crutches for no reason.
Harry Anderson (actor, comedian, magician) wore fake glasses in his act . I remember him wiggling a finger in the lense space saying something like “relax! thier not real.” They may not have been fake glasses all the time but in that instance they were.
It did not bug me in that instance but yeah when co workers wear fake glasses it annoys me. I don’t know of a single instance where I thought spectacles made a person more attractive. I think they are perceived as a mask or protective layer for some people to hide behind.
contact lense wearer since the first tax refund I got until I had cataract surgery. many people were shocked when leading up to the surgery I had wear glasses and few people had ever seen me wearing them including my parents.