• Strange Vanity: You Are Your Shades

    edited by Alexander Becker on October 23, 2006 | Link

    The theory? Your shades are wearing you as an accessory. Think about it: Do you actually wear your shades or do your shades just use you to get displayed? Is it possible that you are your shades' accessory? People recognize and refer to you by your sunglasses' brand. Your glasses are a mask, granting you superpowers while being tightly attached to your face. Try wearing your shades without actually wearing them.

    What is the purpose of your shades? Protection from the sun? Keeping excess light off of your beautiful eyes? Or is it the attraction of glances, invited glances, destined to be rejected? Your glasses almost scream for attention, yet, upon invoking even the slightest reaction, their impenetrable qualities all but prevent the most innocent exchange.

    There are people -- your peers even -- who recognize and refer to you by the brand and style of your sunglasses. This in fact is helpful at times, I remember you with the help of your shades, unless you change them, that is, in this case I introduce myself to you again, while memorizing your sunglasses for later reference.

    Really. Either you hide in or behind the dark or you don't. Tell me. One of the most elaborate and in fact stylish ways to wear shades is to wear them without wearing them at all. It's your vanity vs. their vanity. Next time you go out, leave your tinted glasses in the closet and just pretend to wear them when inviting and fending off those -- strangely longed for -- sights.

    By pretending and only pretending to wear those shades, you come across more real, more authentic, more honest and more like the person you really want to be. It is more work, though: You have to invite and reject all by your self. Just try it to see and feel the difference and the freedom of being liberated from your favorite accessory.

    Don't get me wrong, I love my shades. And my shades love me, as a vehicle for them to be shown off...

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