Why I love Facebook
Because when I got to my desk this morning, I had a message saying a dear high school friend of mine had tagged me in a photo. And this is what I saw when I clicked through.
OMG the glasses. OMG.
Apparently I needed a major fashion intervention way back in 1989. And a harness to support the wingspan of my glasses.
OMG.
Thanks for the laugh, Lucia!
I DARE the rest of you to find something else like this and post it. And leave it in the comments for me to see. Because NO ONE had glasses like this.
Edited to add:
P.S. Can you make out the person wearing “topsiders” on the background? The 80s left their mark on us all.
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Anna Sawin is a Connecticut-based portrait, wedding, and editorial photographer. She lives in the shoreline town of Stonington with her family and has discovered the perfect cupcake. Just ask, she is willing to share her secret.
HA! I had glasses like yours, only in red and another pair in green. I will have to hunt for a photo to share (someday). And my dad and brother shared in the gigantic glasses phase too – our family photos were totally awesome. I heart FB too.
How funny, I just posted something like this and I found my old high school friend and it was great! Love the glasses and the hair!
Anna –
Great shot! I’m glad you have the confidence to share that with the world! Thanks!
i will try to find a picture of my hot pink Esprit glasses from 5th grade. they were bifocals even!
I heard the wide-frames are coming back….you rock.
But your brow is so well groomed!
I had to have orange glasses to match my orange hair. Horror show! (You have reminded me of yet another reason why it is a good thing that I deactivated my FB account. My top three = Scary photos from the past, the time suck factor, and potential viruses.)
I know I had ginormous glasses, but I don’t know if there are any pictures. There IS, however, this picture of one of my ginormous perms, along with my gigantically sparkly earrings and hugely cowl-necked sweater. 1985, anyone?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artoftheodd/2983666053/
And if you haven’t already seen it, the Literal Tears for Fears “Head Over Heels” video is well worth watching. There’s a giant glasses reference:
http://laughingsquid.com/tears-for-fears-head-over-heels-literal-video-version/
applecyder–you know how to make a girl feel good! That is completely natural–never heard of a tweezer until at least college. Also apparently never heard of hair product or blowdryers. Chia–no fair–you look cute even in perm, earrings and cowl neck!
Anna – I cant top this photo, but I can get you a photo of me in comparable sized glasses.
Keep your eyes on my blog tomorrow.
Do you mind if I use your foto also and we can do a compare contrast?
JC OF COURSE!!! Can’t wait to see it.
I have to say that I was way ahead of you as I had those glasses when I was in middle school. That pic of you looks like maybe, what, last year?
Is it the light or are you wearing FROSTED eyeshadow also??
OH I love love this picture! I will have to dig around for a picture of me with big glasses! At one time I even had my intials on the glasses and tinted!! OMG the 80s were so bad! but so good, my next door neighbor’s daughter is dressing up as someone from the 80s!
Aw, thank you, Anna. I think I still have one of those earrings. Or at least PART of one of those earrings, and some vague plan to incorporate it into something else.
Ha ha ha! That is totally awesome.
I will find a total gem to post on Friday. And I was the ugliest child ever, so there are plenty of frightening photos to pick from, I promise!
Three things:
1) My mom also had these glasses in the heart of the 80’s. This is not intended to make you feel better, per se, simply to point out that it was, in fact, a THING that was DONE. Fear not. Sporting the de rigeur Polo, at the time you were the height of preppy hotness.
2) All the young chicas currently running around in those absurdly large Paris Hilton sunglasses will have these same photos to look back on in 15-20 years, and they will cringe in precisely the same way you cringe today.
3) Wearing Topsiders is one thing. Wearing them with shorts and socks is something else entirely.
Those are my glasses. Don’t believe it, I will prove it to you.
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You are a forerunner – clearly “striking a pose” long before Madonna made it fashionable. I think you were on the cutting edge with the glasses too!
Saw Mikie’s proof. He did indeed have those glasses. I’m digging around for my 80s shocker photo. Still need to find the one of me in leather pants from the 80s… OMG !!!
Oh don’t you love Facebook! That is one classy classy photo of you! I think you should use it as your profile pic! 🙂
oh believe me when i tell you i had some god-awful glasses while growing up too. seriously. what was up w/ those glasses that were bigger than our face???
Anna: Sadly I am STILL sporting that look!
I think I still have my big glasses from that era! And, oh how I loved my penny loafers!
that is hilarious! i had the same ones in sparkly blue…hotttie tottties we were!!! hahaha