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Cheap Auto Insurance Quotes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:12:52 -0000

i think i've burnt all those photos of me but i'll explore if mum saved any -- you're not alone! and the optometrists wonder why today i try to cram bifocals into the smallest possible frames...

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nanovor online — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:17:27 -0000

You are super brave to post! I totally won't admit that I had similar huge glasses but I think mine were blue or maybe purple. See I totally repressed it. It never happened. Why on earth of all the fun 80's stuff would the powers that be want to bring huge glasses back? Guess they want to laugh at themselves 20 years from now too.

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Club Penguin Cheats — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:42:59 -0000

I spent the early 80's with big glasses grafted to my face. The beauty of this kind of frame is that they don't have those annoying pincer pads on either side of your nose.

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Chanel Sunglasses — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:03:47 -0000

You don't look that bad in big frames, n there r now many ways in graphics that can restore your original look behind the glasses. Well, that's only for pics though :)

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female roommate — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:32:44 -0000

Heck!
That's looks just like my old roommate.
Will send her to this page.
LOL!!

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lauren — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:30:38 -0000

I personally despise the hipsters and all their "oh, we're not conformists shit." But, I do wear huge, wire frame glasses. Why? Because I have awful eye sight and I hate being able to see the frames in my vision. And, in small glasses, I look like Harry Potter.

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Kim Werker — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:02:22 -0000

@Kyle S.: Oh god, you're right. Maybe I should change that to "squint".

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Kyle S. — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:06:12 -0000

You forget... if a hipster is to smile... they are no longer a hipster. Smiling would ruin their nonchalant...

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Doris — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:53:47 -0000

Atom Ant. The cartoon, that is. I spent the early 80's with big glasses grafted to my face. The beauty of this kind of frame is that they don't have those annoying pincer pads on either side of your nose. I have a flat face, with no nose bridge, and those bigglasses style frames were the only ones I could comfortably wear all day. I switched to the RayBan wraparounds a few years ago, but same idea. Doris, the bridge-less wonder.

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Megan — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:58:58 -0000

I didn't need glasses until I was 22, I think, which was... 6 years ago. So I missed the big glasses era, dangit. My husband wasn't so lucky, though - he wore them through high school up until a few years before I met him, when his female roommate gave him a makeover so he could make a better impression on girls. :D

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Amy J. — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:08:50 -0000

OH MY GOD--I used to have humongous glasses like that and I still have the scars! You are a brave one to post these--if I could burn all the evidence of those years I would :).

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Kim Werker — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:23:07 -0000

@vashti: Exactly. You nailed it.

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Laura — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:49:05 -0000

Oh how funny! I've had glasses since kindergarten (in my 30's now) and suffered through quite a few pairs of those huge monstrosties! I've hated wearing glasses as long as I can remember, and I think it's because of how clunky and uncomfortable the ones I had as a kid were. I can't get contacts (my vision isn't treatable with them), and but thank God glasses have shrunk since the 80's, and gotten so much thinner and lighter, or I'd still be wearing 1 inch thick lenses. I refuse, REFUSE to go back to wearing those mammoth glasses that go already down to my cheeks! I'll be out of style first, LOL!

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Vashtirama — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:39:35 -0000

I have to take sides here. Bell-bottoms and tie-dye are timeless things-o-beauty, no matter how new or old, so they shouldn't be lumped with Big Glasses. I don't recall Big Glasses representing Beauty itself, instead their purpose was to make a statement and counterbalance the wee wire granny glasses (I could produce '70's pics of those too in a court of law). Surely we all agree that Big Glasses make a statement! So: the statement's been made and forever etched in my memory. Future generations will be ok if it's never restated.

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penny — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:15:27 -0000

Funny, I always find my mum's photos elegant and timely from her childhood through early adulthood (say age 25, before she had lots of heartbreak). Her HS yearbook photo ('57) is gorgeous to me ....

I recall my mum's big glasses (they were red) and what fun i made of her... actually *blush* that was at the time of most of these photos (i'm the little sister to this group but i wasn't born in the 80's), I wasn't a glasses wearer yet (though I should've been. go me for memorizing the school eye chart and being short). But the pair I got a few years later (well, after I broke several that school year) made up for it. I'll find that photo for you this weekend. Promises. to me they were HUGE (though in retrospect, probably not).

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Kim Werker — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:02:58 -0000

@Mom: Oh, mom, they're coming back now. That's why it's so imperative that we point out now and loudly how ridiculous these misguided trend-followers look. We all suffered so they wouldn't have to, and yet still. Bellbottoms and tie-dye (not, um, of the sort pictured above) deserve to remain in the cycle of fashion. The big glasses, however, should have their number retired, if you know what I'm saying. Their glory has forever passed.

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Mom — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:35:07 -0000

All of you need to keep this issue in mind when you laugh at your parents' old pictures. Somehow tie-dye and bellbottoms have returned to fashion, so maybe in 40 years these glasses will as well.

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Kim Werker — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:39:19 -0000

@Robyn: What Vashti said. Own your big-glasses past. Do it so we can avoid more horror in the present! We will hold your hand. It will be okay. Do it.

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Vashtirama — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:07:11 -0000

Robyn, be a fire walker! Be the fire! I know it's hard to get past the initial nausea, but I managed to and I feel better for it: http://designingvashti.blog...
Thanks Kim :-)

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Robyn — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:01:49 -0000

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Kim Werker — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:56:33 -0000

@Melissa: Oh, man, that's right! I think you did take them. The one on the left (with my unfortunate choice for favourite t-shirt) was outside the changing room at Givah. The one on the right had a certain you-endorsed-him few-weeks boyfriend cut out of it (to save him the humiliation; he was a very, very nice guy).

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Melissa — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:38:28 -0000

Ha! I laughed out loud at those pictures... mostly because I remember them (I think I may have even been the photographer)!!

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Kim Werker — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:31 -0000

@Mom: Mom, I wasn't a preteen. I was a full-on teen. And I made a very, very big mistake. No parental blame present. :)

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Mom — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:28:56 -0000

Just remember that you, in your usual independent manner, selected those glasses! As dis, I am sure all the other preteens.

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Amy — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:27:06 -0000

@Kim: Funny thing is, since I'm purging things for an impending move, I *just* got donated these--I had been saving them purely because they make me laugh, but they didn't make the cut!