Spectacular

(Via Go Fug Yourself)

What's all the goddamned hoo-ha about Anne Hathaway wearing her glasses to a premiere? Apparently it was so controversial that there needed to be lengthy explanations involving the wrong kind of contact lense fluid, yada yada yada.


(Via Style)

Surely we have past the point when glasses wearers were considered geeks. We have come blinking out of the styleless closet and have long been freed from the stigma of having astigmatism (ba-dum chaa!). Seriously, if those freeks with 20-20 are buying fake glasses in Topshop I don't think wearing glasses and looking stylish have been considered mutually exclusive for quite some time.



Look! Attractive celebrities in stylish glasses!



Some of whom may or may not actually need them for, you know, seeing! They may just be wearing them to look super hot in.



Oh and, ahem, me!



Ulterior motive?! I hear you yell.



But of course! I have been rocking stylish glasses for around 20 years. This is not new. It is not news. We do not need Anne Hathaway to make it alright. It's already more than alright, it's awesome.

She does look cute in hers though. So well done. But everyone else, chill out, it's really not that revolutionary. Really.

Model Behaviour

(Via Spex in the City)

Hey, my modelling debut! I tried on some glasses for Spex and the City in Covent Garden and they've put me on the website. Fame is surely a mere moment away...

What You See is What You Get

I have been wanting a new pair of specs for some time. I've had mine for nearly four years, which surely must be a record. And due to the lack of care with which I have been treating them (consciously or unconciously I couldn't possibly comment) they are quite scratched. So now I also need a new pair.

I love the pair I have. Big and boxy. But you know me, I'm flighty, I like to mix it up. What I really want are a pair like these Oliver Peoples:



Not in pink. With my colouring I don't need any more pink about my face. But the rounded shape I love. I was in a glasses shop trying on something similar and the assistant frowned and shook her head, as if to say, with your round face, are you nuts?

The Ray Ban ones at the top are great, but are they too similar to what I already have?

And then there are these by Ralph Lauren. I have always loved that 60s look, but could I carry them off? They are quite masculine, aren't they?



And these are by Cutler and Gross, but I think they might just be a bit boring?


(Via The Independent)

I might need some advice.

On Spec

I am so happy that I finally have an excuse to post this picture, because I really love it. I mean for one thing Jason Schwartzman is quite delightfully beautiful.

Not convinced?

Still not convinced?

NO?!

Well, I like him anyway.

The other is that they are both wearing the most wonderfully geeky glasses. I own a pair like them, as you know.

Here is me in them.

I have had them for a couple of years, and I have been thinking vaguely about getting another pair, but I am now becoming slightly concerned. Do geeky glasses look really contrived now? You know when something becomes a trend and then even if you were rocking it before it was a trend you end up looking a bit tragic? Is that where we are now with these glasses?

I saw a pretty girl in a pretty dress with super geeky glasses and it just made me think that she was trying too hard. Is that what people think when they see me in mine?

Should I even care? Am I terribly shallow if I do?

Fade to Grey

I love them. But I worry that with your now black hair the colour gradulation might make you look a bit as though you are disappearing from the bottom up. Do you know what I mean?