It’s the victory of the four-eyed. Julia Roberts recently became the most famous spectacled face of a growing trend when she was recently crowned the world’s sexiest spectacled star in an American magazine poll. ’sexy’ and ’star’ normally go together, but with a pair of glasses in between, we’re seeing a whole new revolution. Sunglasses are old hat. Specs are in.
There was a time when a pair of spectacles was uber-nerdy, dowdy and near-social suicide in the jet set. A Rajesh Khanna or an Asha Parekh wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of glasses in their heydays. But they are being sported by Preity Zinta, Sushmita Sen, Sania Mirza, Manisha Koirala, Yana Gupta, Tanuja Chandra… and a whole generation of fashion-crazy young people. And maybe that’s because “Specs are not equal to nerds anymore,” as Abhishek Sehgal says.
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He’s 16, in school and hot with girls despite wearing specs. Which is what every proudly spectacled young person says, and opticians celebrate. Actually Eyewear is a fashion statement now, and people line up to get swanky glasses even if they have no eye problems. “And out of the people who buy eyewear for the heck of it, 60 to 80 per cent are below thirty,” Designers are also looking at fashion through a new lens. “I wear glasses for style,” says Manav Gangwani. “I had got laser surgery done and did not need to wear glasses, but I started recently.” Why? “Coz they are in!”
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Source: http://stylelane.wordpress.com/2006/12/13/specy-and-sexy-and-ultra-glam/
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