{"id":1746,"date":"2010-09-11T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2010-09-11T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T21:22:52","slug":"fashion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard on the radio that it’s “Fashion Week” in New York City; which is some kind of publicity event to get people to buy fancy, expensive clothes, the kind they design and make so well in New York. I can’t get too excited about that; I’m just not a fashionable guy (neither can I afford that stuff!). <\/p>\n

However, “fashion” is a strong sociological undercurrent, a reality of group-thinking which we are all influenced by. I think fashion is interesting, even if I don’t always agree with the latest fashion trends.<\/p>\n

Take eye ware, for example. I’ve worn glasses most of my life (never wanted to fiddle with contact lenses; which themselves are a fashion). Other than allowing me to see things clearly, all I want in a pair of glasses is comfort and durability (and safety; I like the fact that a pair of glasses would come between my cornea and a rock flying thru the air). <\/p>\n

But of course, there is a social effect called fashion<\/strong> that determines the shape and characteristics of the glasses that are available for purchase. Back in the 1970s and 80s, the fashion in eyeglasses went towards “aviators”, big lenses with a bar over the nosebridge. Then in the 1990s, it was round glasses; big round glasses. And then in the 2000’s it was small rectangular glasses. <\/p>\n

So here’s a shot comparing the glasses I wore back in the 1990s, versus the pair I wear today. (I recently rounded up my old pairs as to donate them to the local Lions group for redistribution to the needy). Now, why do the four pairs of round glasses look so “unfashionable” today, when they were perfectly fine about 15 years ago? Just what re-wired our brains to think that the bottom pair has some quality that makes them superior to the four above it? Personally, I thought that the round glasses provided better vision field and more protection. <\/p>\n

But, I don’t want to seem like a geek from the past. Like my dentist. I just visited my dentist for a check-up, and God bless him, he was wearing an old pair of big plastic aviators, like it was still 1987 or something. No Fashion Week for him!<\/p>\n

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