Non-Vintage Glasses

Edward_Guyatt

Back in 2005 glasses were becoming really cool, modern, sleek. They had a kind of futuristic, streamlined, narrow, sporty look. When I was 12 I had a silver Osiris pair with what almost resembled air-to-air missiles on the sides. A year or two later I got this awesome green and black pair, which looked both high-tech and organic at the same time, with a bold contrasting solid black frame mounted on arms made of parallel lines of metallic lime green. Long story short, glasses were wonderful.

Around 2008/2009, when emo was had just peaked in popularity and everyone was feeling soft and metrosexual, a slightly geeky element had been introduced, which would have suited my Linux-using, strategy-game-obsessed self had it not been too pre-occupied with its own existential and related issues to sort out the basics of life like being able to see the outside world properly.

So yeah, now I'm back in the market for a pair of glasses and they all look like glasses from the 70's -- they're either big and square or round and akin to the sort of thing I've seen in pictures of Carl Jung, Joseph Goebbels and bohemians from the early 19th century.

Now I've got nothing against people who are into that kind of thing (I'm talking hipsters, not nazis), but it's 'kinda like not my bag, man'. I want something nostalgically futuristic, something modern from the past decade, non-ironic (oh the irony!) that reflects my values and interests. It simply isn't dignified to go round wearing somebody's idea of how modernity is so last century and backwards is the way forwards when you don't actually believe it. Thus do I want some glasses with a futuristic style, so probably from around 2005-2011 well before hipsterism went mainstream.

I've done a lot of Googling and the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, but all I can find is images from Star-trek and bizarre high-tech gizmos alongside extreme caricatures of what I'm trying to avoid. Can anyone help to fullfill my retro-futurist dream of 2007-glasses? Or had I better bite my lip, get some contacts and wait for a smoother era?

Regardless, I'm really looking forward to being able to see everything in HD again (ie with normal vision) and appreciate these 4K/5K screens the aliens* are bringing us. Now to do so in style, that would be A+!

Thanks in advance,

Ed

*how do you think they're manufactured, post-modern irony-casting? :->

sarah1972

So yeah, now I'm back in the market for a pair of glasses and they all look like glasses from the 70's -- they're either big and square or round and akin to the sort of thing I've seen in pictures of Carl Jung, Joseph Goebbels and bohemians from the early 19th century.

Just go into any local opticians and have a look at the frames, none of my local ones sell big square ones or round glasses. In fact there are some lovely frames out there at the moment.