'Boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses...'

Tom Ford Eye-wear campaign Fall 2010

Tom Ford Eye-wear campaign Spring 2010 

Prada show Fall 2010

Christy Turlington, Chanel campaign circa 2008

Jil Sander eye-wear campaign

Elle Belgium September 2010, Vogue UK May 2008

Prada Fantasy Lookbook Fall 2010

I was telling a girl young girl one day about Tavi Gevinson blogger and genius child extraordinair. The girl wanted to know what she looked like, and I told her she had short blonde hair and wore glasses. I was about to go on when she interrupted me saying the most insightful deep thing I have ever heard, "So she's ugly then?" What did I tell you deep and meaningful, brimming with intelligence. Anyway I said "Nooooo just because she wears glasses doesn't make her ugly!" And as if you are as gorgeous as her. And she just looked at me like a fish. Yes a fish. You know how they do that wierd gulpy mouth, bulgy eye thing? Well she was doing that. But anyway my point is WHAT FRESH HELL? Why do people think like this? I'll tell you why, it's because of a big word that is err... called stereotype. In today's incredibly discerning society, NOT, stupid people think glasses are associated with cleverness, which is associated with boringness, which is associated with ugliness, which is associated with unpopular-ness, which stems on to idiots coining the phrase 'Boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses.'

But but but, why would anyone ask such a superficial and shallow question in the first place? Good QUERY my stuttering friend. I don't know, all I can assume is that society has drifted into some void of boringness and idiocy. People judge others on looks and looks alone. Now this may be a fashion blog (i.e blog that posts about... fashion: an art form, something to look at and take pleasure from doing so.) but fashion is for fun. It's about dressing for yourself, not for your friends or, even more ridiculous, boys. So many people working in the inner sanctum of the fashion industry, judge each other on extremes. Making attending fashion shows as a job (i.e best job, kinda) a stressful chore ripe for experiencing nervy b's (nervous breakdowns). So anyway, as I hop off the tangent train yet again, I could say bla bla bla Lula magazine said, 'Boys SHOULD make passes at girls who wear glasses.' but forever the diplomat(haha as if) I will not. So instead I will say, 'Boys or girls should make passes at girls or boys no matter what their preference or what they look like as long as they like each other and have  stuff in common.' (how gay rights got into that I don't know... so yeah yay for me, and my mother who I am becoming. 

Goodnight to all and to all goodnight. 


*I didn't say that bit because then I would lose my job which involves sucking up to smallish kids and there parents. But oh I wanted to...