Trend Spotting - Spectacle Mania!

Kirsty Whyte Designer Heals Made.com Glasses

All my life I’ve needed glasses; pre-1984 I would frequently walk into table tops, lamp posts, door frames; you get the idea! Then I got my first dashing pair of NHS glasses on my first week of school!

Here you can see me sporting my much cherished ‘My little Pony’ specs (they has a little My little Pony picture embedded in each arm). It’s always been a love hate relationship; needing them to see but them impeding on day to day life, playing sport, not looking like a nerd, repelling boys I fancied at school!

And now somehow glasses have become cool once more, and no longer for just the focus impaired like myself. People with 20:20 are adopting specs, thanks to celebrities like Kanye West and Beiber. It seems to be the cool thing to do here in Shanghai too. I can’t stop spotting people wearing glasses WITH NO LENSES….Why?!!!!!!

Taking covert photos of people modelling this look is very tricky:

And I’m not surprised so many people wear glasses, as this weekend I took a visit to 3 Yeh Optical Market . I was in glasses heaven, rows and rows of cool and cheap glasses, some more practical than others.

Paul my co-contributing blogger (and other half) need some new specs after staring at a computer screen too much, so took the plunge. While there I couldn’t resist trying on a pair or two myself.

Here is a pick of the best; do you think I should get a pair?