Wearing Sunglasses on your head

JupiterKid · 10-08-2018 11:48AM #1

When did wearing sunglasses on your head become the norm? When not wearing my shades I usually slot them into my shirt ot t-shirt at the front and only occasionally wear them on my head.

I know for sure that back in the 1980s when I was a kid that wearing sunglasses on your head was common amongst women - my mum and her friends all did it but back then you never saw men do it. Now it's very common among men. When did that happen?

Do you do it? What do you think of it?

Gaspode · 10-08-2018 11:49AM

The glasses indicate the spot where you should slap them hard.

Tabnabs · 10-08-2018 11:49AM

Did you, as an Irish person, just use the word sunnies? Morto.

somesoldiers · 10-08-2018 11:50AM

Are they not supposed to go on your head?

vicwatson · 10-08-2018 11:50AM

Two things about sunglasses

1. Those the size of dinner plates should be banned

2. People that wear them when talking to you should be banned, especially those with mirror lenses, like w t actual f, take them off ffs, if I wanted to see myself talking I'd look in a mirror, plus I cant see your eyes, they tell me a lot about you.

Lady Haywire · 10-08-2018 11:50AM

I do it but it's because I wear polarised sunglasses & when i walk into a house/driving I push them up on my head as it's very dark otherwise. And then promptly forget about them being there if the sun doesn't come back out. I get affected by sun glare quite badly due to laser years ago so try to have them with me at all times when it's sunny.

Trigger Happy · 10-08-2018 11:55AM

Will those little Glasses straps/cords/lanards ever come back in to fashion?

For Forks Sake · 10-08-2018 11:56AM

Using the term 'sunnies' is a far worse crime

jjbrien · 10-08-2018 11:57AM

Michael O'Leary loves the old sunglasses on his head

Me i always felt it looked silly

Hotblack Desiato · 10-08-2018 11:58AM

It's a code. Everyone who does it is a swinger into anonymous bareback gangbangs. Just ask them if you don't believe me.

JupiterKid · 10-08-2018 12:09PM

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

It's a code. Everyone who does it is a swinger into anonymous bareback gangbangs. Just ask them if you don't believe me.

I knew it!! I suspected just as much...

Cleopatra_ · 10-08-2018 12:11PM

I dunno. Seems like an easy place to put them if you're only going to be taking them off briefly.

10-08-2018 12:11PM

Name : Caoimhe
Occupation : Student (UCD)
Car : Mini Cooper
Footwear : Ugg boots
Beverage : Starbucks Frappuchino
Wears glasses: On her head, not on her eyes.

Tzardine · 10-08-2018 12:14PM

I wear my sunglasses at night.

PlaneSpeeking · 10-08-2018 12:15PM

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

It's a code. Everyone who does it is a swinger into anonymous bareback gangbangs. Just ask them if you don't believe me.

No, that's the ones who put them on the back of their head like cricketers in the field do.

Trigger Happy · 10-08-2018 12:23PM

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

No, that's the ones who put them on the back of their head like cricketers in the field do.

No, that’s not the gang bangers. That’s the masons.
Easily confused though but a bit awkward when it happens.

WoollyRedHat · 10-08-2018 12:29PM

I wear them on my nipples.

PlaneSpeeking · 10-08-2018 12:30PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

No, that’s not the gang bangers. That’s the masons.
Easily confused though but a bit awkward when it happens.

I must have met a very frisky Mason so!

PlaneSpeeking · 10-08-2018 12:30PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I wear them on my nipples.

Pics or GTFO!

whisky_galore · 10-08-2018 12:32PM

Tzardine wrote: »

I wear my sunglasses at night.

Thought only the Terminator wears sunglasses at night.

freshpopcorn · 10-08-2018 12:35PM

I always thought it was sort of an old man thing to do when people put glasses into their shirt pocket.

JupiterKid · 10-08-2018 12:35PM

Tabnabs wrote: »

Did you, as an Irish person, just use the word sunnies? Morto.

Sorry...senior moment there.

Duly amended to "shades.":pac:

WoollyRedHat · 10-08-2018 12:42PM

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

Pics or GTFO!

10 euro for one, 20 euro for 5 so you can share them with your friends. Sunglasses not included.

the beer revolu · 11-08-2018 10:23AM

OP, are you my dad (91)?

Rubberlegs · 11-08-2018 10:30AM

As a child in the 80s I thought women who wore their sunglasses on their heads were so cool:). I hang mine out of the neck of my top when going in anywhere. That's if I even remember to take them off being prescription sunglasses, and if I have forgotten my normal glasses I will have to put them on to read a label or something in a shop. Thankfully I am at the stage in life where I couldn't give a sh1t what anyone thinks of me

Pauliedragon · 11-08-2018 12:29PM

vicwatson wrote: »

Two things about sunglasses

1. Those the size of dinner plates should be banned

2. People that wear them when talking to you should be banned, especially those with mirror lenses, like w t actual f, take them off ffs, if I wanted to see myself talking I'd look in a mirror, plus I cant see your eyes, they tell me a lot about you.

Agree completely with the second one there and add people who wear them in the pub. When I ran pubs in Sydney I had a no sunglassses rule indoors after about 5pm. The abuse I got from some people was nuts.

Discodog · 11-08-2018 12:36PM

I used to hang mine of the neck of my shirt until I got back to the car, after shopping in Tesco & realised they were no longer there. Luckily an employee had retrieved them from a chiller. So easy for them to fall out when you lean forward.

The OP forgets a key factor. Back in the day, when you washed your hair once a week, your shades would be covered in grease if you put them near your hair.

GMSA · 11-08-2018 01:38PM

I would say that the late Gillian Bowler of Budget Travel fame would be most recognised for sunglasses on head. Remember seeing her back in the 80s wearing them in such a fashion.

smilerf · 11-08-2018 01:56PM

I don't wear on my head but I have no problem with it. While on holiday the last few years I have noticed men wearing their glasses on their forehead.
Now that is just silly

r93kaey5p2izun · 11-08-2018 03:11PM

I don't do it purely because people keep being so critical of people who do. I don't really understand the criticism but it seems to have become a thing. So I go through the bother of constantly putting them away instead of doing the most logical and convenient thing which is to put them on my head.

Rubberlegs · 11-08-2018 03:31PM

I saw a man in a cafe recently and he had his sunglasses on the back of his head, he was bald and it looked so freaky!. Like an egg wearing sunglasses:)

Wearing Sunglasses on your head

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