Well, next thing I know, white shades started popping up on celebrity pictures everywhere—and you see the likes of Chloe Sevigny, Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams rocking the 80s look with these strange white Ray Bans.
Not to say that I’d ever be cool enough to pull off the borderline fug looks these girls regularly go for, but then again, I’ve always been strangely drawn to borderline fug fashion. And I do wear a lot of white in the summer. I was intrigued. A quick Google search informed me that the Ray Ban Wayfarers were pretty much the hottest thing in the 80s, back when it was okay to think Tom Cruise was cute in Risky Business. Anyway, Ray Ban relaunched the Wayfarer line at the beginning of this year for the Spring/Summer 2007 season, adding these hot new white and limited edition red versions. And at a $99 list price, it’s a bargain compared to your typical, overpriced Safilo-produced shades (Yep, your Gucci, Prada, CD, Chanel glasses were all made by the same folks in Italy, thanks to industrial districts and the development of regional specialty trades! So who wants to read my senior thesis? No?).
So, you say, I'm into questionable fashion trends too--where can I get these? Well, friends, another quick Google search tells us that we lowly non-celebs simply cannot get the red or white ones ANYWHERE (besides ebay, but ebay doesn't count cuz you never want to buy branded stuff from ebay where there's no guarantee what you're getting is authentic). Darn.
Wait… it's Nordstrom’s half-yearly sale to the rescue! I found the cutest knock-offs of the white Wayfarers, complete with those little metal rivets-things on the side, and best of all they fit my [large, flat] face and were, get ready for this--$10!! Done and done. And you know, they’re pretty great. I’ve pretty much cast aside my designer frames (which never fit my face very well anyway) in favor of these, cuz they’re summery, I can toss them around, and they make me feel instantly more stylish and cool with no effort. I’m not normally a fan of knock-offs, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be glad I only spent $10 on them in a few months when I realize how ridiculous they really are (see below).
* Trust me, I tried super hard to embrace this one. I have a famously (yeah, I’m kind of a big deal… to my 5 friends) big face, and wouldn’t it be great and flattering to cover it up with oversized sunglasses? Well, it turns out that besides being large in surface area, my face is also pretty flat, due to my lack of a nose bridge. Yep, me, MJ, and our missing noses. Sigh. Well, suffice it to say, those oversized frames simply do fit faces lacking a nose bridge. I give up.
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