I've heard of a colleague who started to wear glasses to be taken seriously. She was a young professional (architect) and the dudes at the building sites didn't want to listen to her. The glasses helped.

A lot of people who have trichotillomania wear glasses to stop them from pulling their eyelashes

There was another earlier phase where everyone was doing it, especially guys because they thought it looked cool. As someone who had to wear glasses and contacts her whole life until getting LASIK at 40, I didn't understand it. I couldn't wait to be glasses- free!

and the stupid f*****g no lens ones

oh my sisters did that once. as someone who used to wear glasses and was pretty insecure about it, it annoyed the hell outta me

I wore semi-professional clothes and clear lens glasses to half my classes, but Levi's & T-shirts w/o the glasses to the other half as a sort of social experiment. Guess which professors treated me more respectfully?

I remember girls in school who would not wear their glasses because they thought it made them unattractive. So they went around like Mr. Magoo. Lol

Really pissed off those of us who as kids, were teased and bullied about having to wear glasses. And the old saying of "Guys don't makes passes at girls who wear glasses". Now it's a fashion statement and to make you look "smart"? WTH?

Actually, this sadly helps women during interviews in the U.S., bc we are perceived as "less smart" than our male counterparts, for nothing more than looks/sexism. Then, we are paid less, while often being more qualified.

Just every person on trial puts on glasses to look more respectable.

Girl in my primary school did this she looked ridiculous then bullied someone for actually needing glasses she moved to Australia thank god

Back in 2012, people in Asia wear only the frame to look smart.

I remember that. There was a phase like that in the 70s too.

Yeah, they still do that.

Still happening.

Its still around, also I refuese to wear mine around house, and sometimes outside so it does confuse people when I don't wear mine, they go "wait thought you were blind" its like no NEARSIGHTED I can read better with them off at least up close I need them to read street signs from a distance or look down a long aisle, I still can pass a drivers test with out them, but normally I prefer to have them, but at home I use PC so monitors 2 feet from my face so I never wear them, things look smaller with them on at that distance in fact, and some times when busy I forget to grab them...

growing up in the 2000s i had some of those

'Look' being the operative word here...🤭

I'm right across the mall hallway from Claire's wow that's a coincidence!😮

How did this get negative yes some people are legally blind but most glasses wearers are not granted many who should wear them don't. I am near sighted so at home its fine, in a store where aisles are like over 20 feet deep, I need them or stuff gets blurry. I can work with them off, just not see faces very well who are far away, but up close I can see better with them off. And I have confused so many coworkers, its like I only need them at work to tell if that guy in slacks is our manager coming over or some random person, once they get here I see them fine.