An Open Letter to Hipsters

@Kim: Funny thing is, since I’m purging things for an impending move, I *just* got donated these–I had been saving them purely because they make me laugh, but they didn’t make the cut!

Robyn, be a fire walker! Be the fire! I know it’s hard to get past the initial nausea, but I managed to and I feel better for it: http://designingvashti.blogspot.com/2008/05/big-glasses-hot-or-not.html
Thanks Kim :-)

All of you need to keep this issue in mind when you laugh at your parents’ old pictures. Somehow tie-dye and bellbottoms have returned to fashion, so maybe in 40 years these glasses will as well.

Funny, I always find my mum’s photos elegant and timely from her childhood through early adulthood (say age 25, before she had lots of heartbreak). Her HS yearbook photo (’57) is gorgeous to me ….

I recall my mum’s big glasses (they were red) and what fun i made of her… actually *blush* that was at the time of most of these photos (i’m the little sister to this group but i wasn’t born in the 80’s), I wasn’t a glasses wearer yet (though I should’ve been. go me for memorizing the school eye chart and being short). But the pair I got a few years later (well, after I broke several that school year) made up for it. I’ll find that photo for you this weekend. Promises. to me they were HUGE (though in retrospect, probably not).

Oh how funny! I’ve had glasses since kindergarten (in my 30’s now) and suffered through quite a few pairs of those huge monstrosties! I’ve hated wearing glasses as long as I can remember, and I think it’s because of how clunky and uncomfortable the ones I had as a kid were. I can’t get contacts (my vision isn’t treatable with them), and but thank God glasses have shrunk since the 80’s, and gotten so much thinner and lighter, or I’d still be wearing 1 inch thick lenses. I refuse, REFUSE to go back to wearing those mammoth glasses that go already down to my cheeks! I’ll be out of style first, LOL!

OH MY GOD–I used to have humongous glasses like that and I still have the scars! You are a brave one to post these–if I could burn all the evidence of those years I would :).

Atom Ant. The cartoon, that is. I spent the early 80’s with big glasses grafted to my face. The beauty of this kind of frame is that they don’t have those annoying pincer pads on either side of your nose. I have a flat face, with no nose bridge, and those bigglasses style frames were the only ones I could comfortably wear all day. I switched to the RayBan wraparounds a few years ago, but same idea. Doris, the bridge-less wonder.

Heck!
That's looks just like my old roommate.
Will send her to this page.
LOL!!

I spent the early 80's with big glasses grafted to my face. The beauty of this kind of frame is that they don't have those annoying pincer pads on either side of your nose.

You are super brave to post! I totally won't admit that I had similar huge glasses but I think mine were blue or maybe purple. See I totally repressed it. It never happened. Why on earth of all the fun 80's stuff would the powers that be want to bring huge glasses back? Guess they want to laugh at themselves 20 years from now too.

i think i've burnt all those photos of me but i'll explore if mum saved any — you're not alone! and the optometrists wonder why today i try to cram bifocals into the smallest possible frames…

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OH MY GOD–I used to have humongous glasses like that and I still have the scars! You are a brave one to post these–if I could burn all the evidence of those years I would :).

Atom Ant. The cartoon, that is. I spent the early 80’s with big glasses grafted to my face. The beauty of this kind of frame is that they don’t have those annoying pincer pads on either side of your nose. I have a flat face, with no nose bridge, and those bigglasses style frames were the only ones I could comfortably wear all day. I switched to the RayBan wraparounds a few years ago, but same idea. Doris, the bridge-less wonder.

@Kim: (i need coffee) i still have all the yearbooks (incl. elementary school). i’ll dig out some gems for you when i next visit mum. mentally i burnt them; i’m pretty sure that physically they are /somewhere/.

Robyn, be a fire walker! Be the fire! I know it’s hard to get past the initial nausea, but I managed to and I feel better for it: http://designingvashti.blogspot.com/2008/05/big-glasses-hot-or-not.html
Thanks Kim :-)

All of you need to keep this issue in mind when you laugh at your parents’ old pictures. Somehow tie-dye and bellbottoms have returned to fashion, so maybe in 40 years these glasses will as well.

Funny, I always find my mum’s photos elegant and timely from her childhood through early adulthood (say age 25, before she had lots of heartbreak). Her HS yearbook photo (’57) is gorgeous to me ….

I recall my mum’s big glasses (they were red) and what fun i made of her… actually *blush* that was at the time of most of these photos (i’m the little sister to this group but i wasn’t born in the 80’s), I wasn’t a glasses wearer yet (though I should’ve been. go me for memorizing the school eye chart and being short). But the pair I got a few years later (well, after I broke several that school year) made up for it. I’ll find that photo for you this weekend. Promises. to me they were HUGE (though in retrospect, probably not).

Oh how funny! I’ve had glasses since kindergarten (in my 30’s now) and suffered through quite a few pairs of those huge monstrosties! I’ve hated wearing glasses as long as I can remember, and I think it’s because of how clunky and uncomfortable the ones I had as a kid were. I can’t get contacts (my vision isn’t treatable with them), and but thank God glasses have shrunk since the 80’s, and gotten so much thinner and lighter, or I’d still be wearing 1 inch thick lenses. I refuse, REFUSE to go back to wearing those mammoth glasses that go already down to my cheeks! I’ll be out of style first, LOL!