Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Silly Sunglasses

Gone are the days of the aviator. Oh. Wait. No... Aviators are back. Is Top Gun still on the billboard hits?

I have noticed many more silly sunglasses on people since, I don't know, 2002. Something about the 21st century has given people the necessary eye-balls to wear whatever they want on the bridge of their nose. I just don't get it. Maybe I'm not hip enough, or maybe because I'm not emo, because I just don't get it.

I recent (just now) search on google images for "sunglasses" leads me to some of these ridiculous frames and four-eyed monstrosities:






Why do people buy these things? My amazement is that not all of our sunglasses are polarized at this point. Ugh. One way the market is not working in sunglasses because too many people buy cheap sunglasses - not knowing that they do nothing to protect your eyes from UV etc.

I bet a lot of people will look back on this decade with disdain over what could have been in eyewear. I wonder what is next in eyewear? As they say, hindsight 20/20, but foresight is much more important.

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