Are You Fashionable?
I’m not entirely sure when it became socially acceptable to wear fashionable glasses, but now it seems every designer, ‘artist’ or vaguely well-heeled person owns a pair. Gone are the days when you could choose between one style of NHS specs and you were a source of ridicule for your able-sighted friends. Now you can spend literally hundreds of pounds on designer frames in various shapes and colours. If you’re uber-fashionable you might even want to get a pair of rimless glasses (mainly worn by architects and bald men).
It’s quite astounding that some plastic glasses can set you back £XXX, but that designer label isn’t cheap. From D&G to an independent fashion retailer, each new style represent someones ‘personality’ and is snapped up straight away. Now, the able-sighted are unfashionable and find themselves sat on the doorstep of cool.