Trend saturation report: goofy glasses

In the first edition of our new Style series, "Trend Saturation Report," we're taking on hipster glasses as the first trend that needs to end.

Call them tortoise shell. Call them thick-rimmed. Call them hipster glasses. Or call them, as I do, "goofy glasses." You know the ones. They're ubiquitous on this campus.

It's clear why these glasses have caught on. They're the logical result of mid-decade grunge (think Mary-Kate circa 2006), ironic prepiness (think Ezra Koenig) and pseudo-intellectualism (think, the people you sit next to in class).

Less clear to Columbians seems to be why this trend must end.

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