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?) 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
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!)
Well, Malibu Barbie always did it, and she’s cool… 
No, I’m talking about so-called fashion, like Queen Tonya’s Malibu Barbie up there.
I wonder if she’s related to Latifa?
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.
Mine don’t fold into my pocket worth a damn.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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? 
I was trying to be tender toward shaky egos. 
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.
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.
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.