Goon Shades

Bovered

What is it with Irish women and these massive oversized sunglasses (goon shades).

Do you not realise that you look like fools???

I first seen goon shades in Italy back in 2003, two years later they hit this place.

Women would have laughed at people wearing these thing a month previously, then with a bit of promotion they are all wearing them, rain, hail or snow.

And another thing, have you ever seen a woman drving a car in the last year without some form of goon shades?

Stupid idiots.

WindSock

Does the same apply to men who own pink shirts or sport mullets?

Btw, I have prescriptive 'goon' shades that I use to drive. No light can enter from any angle. They are great.

Well they cover half of their face so that means they don't have to waste time putting on make up.

Mr.Lizard

I think we've long since established that most Irish women don't care how stupid, unflattering & ill-fitting something looks as long it gets the message across to everyone looking that they spent more time, thought, money & effort cultivating that particular image in comparison to their equally ridiculous looking peers.

Fratton Fred

My wife wears them.

They cover her eyes when its sunny and the top of her head when it isn't. Apparantly you are not allowed to enter a Dalkey Coffee shop with out a pair on.

Bovered

WindSock wrote: »

Does the same apply to men who own pink shirts or sport mullets?

Btw, I have prescriptive 'goon' shades that I use to drive. No light can enter from any angle. They are great.

Yes for the pink shirts.

I would have thought that the irish man's skin was pink enough, without putting on anything else of that colour.

Yeah, Goon shades and men wearing pink. Signs that a country has become debased.

Quazzie

Bovered wrote: »

Yes for the pink shirts.

I would have thought that the irish man's skin was pink enough, without putting on anything else of that colour.

Yeah, Goon shades and men wearing pink. Signs that a country has become debased.

So by exclusion I presume you approve of Mullets .


Party at the front Business at the back, Redneck all over!

Terry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZLqwU3JptM

Valmont

I'm even more concerned about Irish men wearing these goon shades. I always do a facepalm in town when I see some lad with a huge pair on. Face it, sunglasses were not designed for pasty Irish males. Buy a cap if the sun is in your eyes.

Boom_Bap

they cover up the ugly

jellie

at a guess id say cause theres very few normal sized sunglasses available.
every pair i tried on made me look like some sort of bug with giant eyes.

eventually found a smaller pair but they cost more than id normally spend on something that ill probably accidentally sit on after 2 days & break.

other option is the childrens section :pac:

Professey Chin

WindSock wrote: »

Does the same apply to men who own pink shirts or spend time on their hair?

Fixed to be much more accurate. Christ even before I started shaving my head it took a grand total of 8 seconds to put gel in my hair. Fellas who spend ages getting the perfect spike at the front, going correctly up down the middle etcetcetc should really all be culled:mad:

Caoimhín

I first spotted them on girls in Barcelona about 5 years ago and thought it was just an odd local thing due to sunlight levels.

Then about 2 years ago I spotted a lady wearing them on her head in the pissing rain in Tullamore.

Nuff said.

Quazzie

Tullamore has always been the fashion equivalent of Paris in Ireland.

Ann22

I know a woman who wears them in all weathers, massive black ones. She looks like a big fly.

Gummy Panda

Ann22 wrote: »

I know a woman who wears them in all weathers, massive black ones. She looks like a big fly.

Bono?

KTRIC

Never understood using sunglasses as a hairband / all year round fashion accessory.

I wear my sunglasses (nice pair of Killer Loop black wrap arounds) a lot of the year due to the crappy pair of eyes God gave me. I have very little tollerance for any bright lights.

WindSock

Terry wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZLqwU3JptM

OMG. Is that in Cork? It think I spotted me or my doppelganger.

Mr.Lizard

Boom_Bap wrote: »

they cover up the ugly

Let's hope Burka's are the in-look for 2010 in that case.