Comments on: An Open Letter to Hipsters http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/ What? Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:49:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kim http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3629 Kim Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:02:22 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3629 @<a href="#comment-3627" rel="nofollow">Kyle S.</a>: Oh god, you're right. Maybe I should change that to "squint". @Kyle S.: Oh god, you’re right. Maybe I should change that to “squint”.

]]> By: Kyle S. http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3627 Kyle S. Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:06:12 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3627 You forget... if a hipster is to smile... they are no longer a hipster. Smiling would ruin their nonchalant... You forget… if a hipster is to smile… they are no longer a hipster. Smiling would ruin their nonchalant…

]]> By: Doris http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3136 Doris Sat, 17 May 2008 12:53:47 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3136 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. 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.

]]> By: Megan http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3057 Megan Sun, 11 May 2008 01:58:58 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3057 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 <a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/rivulet/pic/0001yxz6" rel="nofollow">high school</a> 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 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

]]> By: » 10th May Weekly Roundup http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3054 » 10th May Weekly Roundup Sun, 11 May 2008 00:10:36 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3054 [...] best distraction from hours and hours of editing PDFs this week was certainly all the talk of big glasses. Note, though, that I’m not into posting embarrassing photos of my adolescent self just for [...] [...] best distraction from hours and hours of editing PDFs this week was certainly all the talk of big glasses. Note, though, that I’m not into posting embarrassing photos of my adolescent self just for [...]

]]> By: Amy J. http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3040 Amy J. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:08:50 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3040 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 :). 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 :).

]]> By: Kim http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3036 Kim Fri, 09 May 2008 03:23:07 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3036 @<a href="#comment-3032" rel="nofollow">vashti</a>: Exactly. You nailed it. @vashti: Exactly. You nailed it.

]]> By: Laura http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3033 Laura Fri, 09 May 2008 00:49:05 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3033 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! 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!

]]> By: vashti http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3032 vashti Fri, 09 May 2008 00:39:35 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3032 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. 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.

]]> By: penny http://www.kimwerker.com/2008/05/07/an-open-letter-to-hipsters/#comment-3030 penny Fri, 09 May 2008 00:15:27 +0000 http://www.kimwerker.com/?p=152#comment-3030 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). 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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