Queer EyeS for the Straight Guy
I've been wanting to get a pair of prescription glasses for riding--so I don't get myself killed out there--but they're so darned expensive. By the time you buy the shades and the Rx adapter and get lenses made you've blown $150 or more. So I stumble across this site for a glasses maker in Hong Kong. For $29 I get a pair of specs. They're not riding glasses, per se, but they seem like they'll be servicable. They arrived yesterday, but when I put them on they seemed so small in the lenses department. (The lenses looked bigger and rounder on the website.) Fit-wise they're fine, it's just the trendy design of them, I guess. They look like old librarian glasses, except in translucent indigo plastic. And, um, they look like the glasses of a...well, you know--like I could be on a TV show where hapless hetero hunks are advised on how to dress and eat. Oh, they'll work just fine, and perhaps I'll set a trend. Or I'll get laughed at. Could go either way.

They do look good with my silver hair. It's natural, by the way. In a fit of unprecedented vanity, I'm going to start referring to it as "platinum."