In some ways I object to this term and idea. When I was growing up, if you were nearsighted and needed glasses, there were approximately three glasses frames available. Not much choice in size shape or color. Those of you who have only gotten glasses in the last thirty years have no idea how limited the options were. Laser vision correction wasn’t even someone’s fantasy either, so there was only one other choice besides glasses, and that was not being able to see and walking into things, hurting yourself, and failing in school. And once you get used to a particular frame style, changing it is not always easy.
So, now it is easy to laugh at the people who wore the big, black nerd glasses frames. And adopt them for your Halloween costume. You can go as Clark Kent, or Buddy Holly, or as a aerospace engineer, or a programmer, wearing your nerd glasses. Just be glad that, at the end of the Halloween season, you can take them off and not have to see them on your face ever again unless you want to. Don’t forget the tape on the nose piece or one ear piece to get the right forlorn look.
Actually, things are better now in many ways. There are more choices in glasses frames, and no body thinks twice about people who wear glasses, when it used to be a detriment to one’s social standing. And there is laser eye correction techniques and contacts, so glasses are not necessary any more. No more wearing glasses unless you just want to, or cannot adapt to contact lenses, or cannot continue your chosen activities if you get the laser treatment. So much the better.
Need big nerd glasses for a joke or a costume? Now is the time to look for them, as Halloween is coming up and the glasses are out there. At other times of the year, you will have to take the nose off of the Groucho glasses, which are available any time of year. You can leave the bushy eyebrows, or take them off. Either way, the Groucho glasses work as nerd glasses. Actual glass-like material is not necessary, since only someone close up can tell if the frames are empty or not.
Back to the “olden” days, one of the other two choices for glasses, if you were a girl, was the cats-eye frames, the ones that are pointy ovals that lift on the outside end. Those are just as funny as the nerd glasses, unless you had to wear them. Now they also are part of the costume genre, so you can wear a leopard skin suit, loud jewelry, cats-eye glasses and be the hip woman of the 60′s(?). Laugh all you want. The things you wear today will be the joke of two decades from now, especially if you keep up with the fashion trends.
Put on your nerd glasses and laugh. And be grateful you have other choices when you need real glasses frames.
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