Eye Glasses for correct vision?

[dnoblett]

An interesting fad in China, people with correct vision wearing eye-glass frames without the lenses.

 

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Pop singer Zhang Liangying wears lens-less glasses at an event in Shanghai. [Fuochi / CFP]

 

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A street vendor sells lens-less glasses in Xiamen, Fujian province. [Natalie Tan / for China Daily]

 

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Lens-less glasses are sold in a store in Shanghai. [YY / CFP]

 

Glasses without lenses are big in China, but are they focused fashion or hollow style statements? Tiffany Tan reports.

 

Surrounded by shiny leather bags with the overlapping L and V monogram, Wang Yanzhu looks like your typical Chinese fashionista on a shopping trip. The 27-year-old is dressed in a brownish orange poncho, her chin-length hair is in a headband and a dark brown leather satchel dangles from her forearm. To complete the look, she decided that morning to slip on a pair of big, translucent, orange plastic glasses - well, frames to be exact, since there's only air where the lenses should be. She has 10 more such frames sitting at home.

 

Wang, like many Chinese urbanites in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland, uses these empty plastic frames as fashion accessories and beauty aids.

 

"Lens-less glasses can project many different styles and go with various looks," says the Beijing resident, who works in makeup sales.

 

After a friend gave Wang her first pair four years ago, she began wearing them regularly, because she is drawn to the seeming refinement of women in glasses, she says. "They also provide coverage when you're not wearing any makeup," she says.

 

In a country where a third of the population of 1.3 billion is nearsighted, Wang is blessed with perfect vision and has no need for glasses.

 

Children tell her big plastic frames look old-fashioned. Older people say they obstruct her "beautiful eyes".

Her boyfriend teases that they make her eyes appear too big. Her mother plainly says they don't suit her.

Welcome to the polarizing trend of wearing glasses without glasses.

 

Since 2008, the practice has become popular among mainland Chinese college students and yuppies, but it has also been an object of jokes and ridicule. Style professionals are divided on its cool factor.

 

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[tonado]

They should put light non-prescription lens in the frame. The lens can protect people from sun, wind, bugs or anything from getting into the eyes.

[Kyle]

From my perspective that just uhh kind of stupid. Good post, Dan

[knloregon]

WSJ did a story on this last year---but its origins, apparently are Tokyo, several years ago. Maybe cute pop star Zhang Liangying can be talked into wearing a belt without her dress... one up the Japanese, and take it to the next high fashion level! "You can keep the hat on..."

[dan1984]

I see this everyday, it absolute kills me!

[warpedbored]

The other day I was driving to work and the sun was shining. A young man across the intersection from me was wearing his baseball cap backward while holding his hand above his eyes so he could see.

[Mick]

I couldnt help wondering what on earth Chairman Mao would say about this. Can you imagine his reaction if somehow he was magically restored to life for one day and had a chance to view contemporary China? I had the same thought years ago when we were living in the Middle Kingdom. The city where we lived had a new Wal Mart open up. They had a huge street party out front to celebrate. Li and I were in attendance and I couldn't help remarking on the scene before us. There were five separate stages with two rock bands belting out the hits, two fashion shows, and on another stage, people were paying money to throw pies and assorted food items at their friends. What a scene! One of the fashion shows featured models in skimpy bikinis and was, without question, the most popular of the events. Yep, I wondered that day what the good Chairman would think of all this.

[dan_ling]

The other day I was driving to work and the sun was shining. A young man across the intersection from me was wearing his baseball cap backward while holding his hand above his eyes so he could see.

 

You just can't teach "STUPID".

[dnoblett]

They should put light non-prescription lens in the frame. The lens can protect people from sun, wind, bugs or anything from getting into the eyes.

They are called "Safety Glasses"... And to protect from the sun "Sun Glasses"

 

The other day I was driving to work and the sun was shining. A young man across the intersection from me was wearing his baseball cap backward while holding his hand above his eyes so he could see.

 

You just can't teach "STUPID".

 

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[knloregon]

"Hat Fail" Hat Fail ? I don't get it ---- oh, now I do! .....brand name of a new line of baseball caps designed to be worn backwards... Good post, Dan ~ !

[Doug]

Years ago my cousin took me to Las Vegas where she took some voice lessons from the same dude who taught Judy Garland. The studio was in back rooms of this clothing seconds store that bought clothes from other stores that didn't sell and try to sell them. I mean it was big and full of stuff no one would want IMHO. It was owned by a commedian who entertained in the shows at the casino's. Other commedians would come in the sotre and they would try to out perform the other right there in the sotre. I thought I was in the middle of it's a MAd Mad Mad MAd Wold. The first day the owner said something to his son, who was in a studio practicing a magic act, about drumming up some business, so the next day when we drove up for lesson 2 that idiot son was out in the street dressed up like an Indian Chief with a HUGE bass drum on his chest beating it - and a clothes rack next to him. Unbelievable! But what really got me was this complete incompetant salesman he had working for him who could answer no question and do nothing with the customers, and he wore glasses with no lenses that kept sliding down his nose and he would finger push it up over and over. I had to get away from him and the customers to bust up laughing. First time I saw anyone do that. The customers must have been desensitized to this. I thought it helarious as my spelling. well anyway...............

[dnoblett]

Excellent the this just hit out counting thread!

 

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[Zhou Zhou]

All of my wife's old classmates request reading glasses when we go to visit...they can't seem (or don't want to) find readers in China...one guess where they are made?

[Zhou Zhou]

Last month we were walking around a fancy upscale shopping mall in Fuzhou and I saw some nicely dressed young women wearing the glasses without any glass...what a hoot! I had told the wife to be on the look out for them. We both had a good laugh.

[tsap seui]

Last month we were walking around a fancy upscale shopping mall in Fuzhou and I saw some nicely dressed young women wearing the glasses without any glass...what a hoot! I had told the wife to be on the look out for them. We both had a good laugh.

 

I hear ya Zhou Zhou, Wenyan and I got a kick out of them last year. I enjoy the younger generation's fads and quirks. Lord knows we had them too when we were growing up.

 

tsap seui