Who Can Tell When & What Fashion Will Be In Glasses?
As usual the tinernet is hot with comments and referrals to the new TV ad from Specsavers - after being positively on fire from the “sperm” ad you’ll only see on-line.
Bad Glasses Or Just Awaiting A Revival?
As usual it’s a clever gag leading to the inevitable “Should have gone to…” but my comment is how they choose specs to be definitely and positively un-fashionable? This guy is wearing 70’s style specs and I don’t know if his eye-sight or his insight is in question, but the frames look wrong for these days but not oh-so-much.
Ladies are wearing repro/retro frames from this period now. I’ve just had a spam comment punting Rayban oversized Aviators which are in the same vogue - with brown tints. So who’s to say that these won’t be back in fashion soon.
I bet there’s people seeing this ad [a] who don’t notice that the specs are supposed to be bad and [b] who want some like them!
on Apr 22nd, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Just like with clothes they can easily pick whatever is at the opposite end of the fashion pendulum at the moment, or whatever the current youth generation’s parents wore when they were young. Bound to repulse someone. Men’s fashion tends to be more conservative and unchanging too, so his choice of colour and design helps give that Timmy Mallet look we all dread.
Of course, even if you are fashion-concious you can’t forget that they are medical aids first and foremost. If you have a high prescription then it would be crazy to go with huge wrap-arounds or similar, even if they were very much in fashion.