So I recently touched on the subject that I suffered through an awkward stage. I know, not unusual for adolescents.
I blame the majority of my downfall/self-esteem issues for the gigantic, ugly glasses I hid behind for years. Now, I will not be posting the worst of the worst. This is a decent sample photo:
I’m still kind of cute here. This is the summer of 1986, the summer before sixth grade. I was 11.
In sixth grade I decided I needed to cut hideous bangs so I could attempt to feather them. After the bangs came a fully-layered horrible haircut, complete with wings. (I stayed away from layers for a LONG time after growing that out!). I’m not ready to share those with the Internet, yet.
Anyway, back to the glasses. I was inspired to post this photo after viewing a recent post by Zandria, where she sported a pair of very similar glasses!
It got me thinking. Following these glasses, I had several other pairs of equally large frames. I believe I was told I needed large glasses in order to support my coke-bottle thick prescription.
Was it really necessary? Did somebody find it funny to make little, poor-sighted girls balance extremely large specs on their small noses? Was it just the evil style trends of the 80s?
Thank goodness for contact lenses and the thin lenses they can make now! I still don’t love wearing glasses, but at least when I have to, they don’t cover my entire face!
it’s funny – because I didn’t have to wear glasses, I always very much wanted to! Then in Uni I started getting really bad headaches… sure enough I needed glasses. I couldn’t decide if I was pleased because I finally needed them, or horrified that there was something wrong with my body! Thankfully small frames were in by then… smaller than yours, but much bigger than now!
Those do look very similar to the pair I had. Oh, woe was the time that we had to wear those monstrosities. 🙂 My parents didn’t let me get contacts until I was 15!
That was the style back then though. I’m a little older than you (only a little mind you) and I remember how vogue they were. The bigger they were the better. I have some truly awful pictures of me back then. I thought I was very fashionable at the time!
I’m not brave enough to post though. You were cute, even in the big specs.
Oh, there are plenty of non-cute photos. Those will not be shared with the world!