I bought my first pair of RayBan Wayfarers in 2001 while still in highschool. Such a unique design, I thought, and incredibly comfortable to boot. In addition, I was a huge fan of both ‘Risky Business”, and “The Blues Brothers”, so the glasses held a certain sentimental value, as well. It just splits my heart in two that the hipsters have assimilated the wayfarers (often knockoffs) as part of their official garb. I still wear them sometimes, cautiously, but as silly as it sounds I’m worried I’ll be associated with this confused sub-culture, and subsequently be ridiculed for wearing running sneakers in lieu of Chuck Taylors or ironic high tops. Can we please all spread some sort of rumor that the wayfarers have become ‘mainstream’ so that they’ll stop wearing them?
—Anton
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2009.
You were in high school in 2001, you bought these glasses in 2001, and you think you’re the essence of vintage? Jesus Christ, to prove how truly authentic you are, you cite shit from the 70’s and 80’s!
You are no more or less ‘authentic’ than the hipsters you complain about. You’re glasses are actually a newer design based on the older versions. When I say old I don’t just mean 70s and 80s old, little one, I mean 50s old. Get off your high horse, stop worrying about it and wear them like every other confused hipster. It’s sunny out and everything!
Oh man, I’ve got a Vuarnet t-shirt somewhere just waiting to be worn!
oh my fucking god. “non hiptsters” can and do wear wayfarers too, and unless you are dressed head to toe in american apparell i doubt you are being confused for one (not that that is a bad thing). get over yourself dude!
Wow get over yourself. Hipsters can be annoying sure, but holier than thou anti-hipsters are worse.
I’m so ahead of the curve that even the hipsters are eating my dust.
Fuck I’m cool. I’m so fuckin’ cool. James Dean would suck my cock if he had the chance. That’s how fuckin’ cool I am. Those hipsters don’t know shit.
You know how fuckin’ cool I am? I developed a computer algorithm, based on Google search technology, that scans the fashion websites for the past ten years and analyzes the evolution of all of the trends (the cool ones, not the lame-ass hipster ones), and then predicts the trends for the next five years, specifically so that I can go out and buy all kinds of hipper-than-though shit at least two years in advance and then show everybody how fuckin’ cool I am by complaining when the hipsters start to catch up with me.
But those fuckers don’t know what I have up my sleeve now.
Can you say Bing?
Fuck I’m cool. Fuck.
Disclaimer: I called dibs on the dumb search engine idea above and will patent it so that no indie-kids can steal it from me. Hands off, fuckin’ hipsters! Fuck I’m cool.
P.S. I will call my invention the Wayfarer Engine™
MMMMMMuuuuuuuaaaaahahahahahahahaaahahahaahaaaaaha
I share your pain OP. I bought a black shirt the other day and now I’m worried I’m going to be thought of as a goth. Maybe we should put the word out there that black is now mainstream and all the goths will stop wearing it.
Yes, that was sarcasm, in case it didn’t come across that way.
Frig, if you’re wearing a sunglass style that has been around since the fifties, and you only bought them eight years ago, you have no claim on who should and shouldn’t be wearing them. I imagine the sunglasses have come and gone in many sub-cultures in that time. The hipsters will stop wearing them at some point, then you can enjoy your nostalgic trip to the 80’s.
OMFG Jammie thats awesome!!!
TDF -> All my colthes are black and i get accused of being goth because i am supr pale and have dark hair! but i am soooo not!
OP trends come and go it will be over before you know it, you wear your glasses with style 🙂
Wait a second… You don’t want to wear a certain style of glasses because other people are wearing them too? Sounds to me like you’re being pretty hipster-critical.
hipstercritical – love it!
😀
Benetton and Club Monaco sweatshirts are next!!!
No one but hipsters think so carefully and calculatingly about what they wear and what it might mean that they wear it. You’re in denial dude.
i never had one of those sweaters!!
i know i am a girl and i roll out of bed and pick colthes up off of the floor/hamper/closet and put em on without thought!
I’m imagining you, misunderstood Wayfarin’ wearin’ Stranger, “cautiously” wearing your Tom Cruise RayBans. Nobody understands just how much they mean to you, how they shield and protect, yet reveal so much about the inner Anton. If they did, they would crush their own knock-off wannabe shades beneath their ironic high tops and bow in the shadow of your mightiness. Indeed.
Yes, how do you wear sunglasses cautiously, exactly? Do you cover your eyes with your hand when you wear them, perhaps peeking through the cracks of your fingers, hiding the rims from this cruel, cruel world of hipster doofi all too eager to adopt your style iconicity?
Exactly!
OP, you mean you bought 1980’s glasses to wear in 2001 as a stylish thing, and yet you’re criticizing ones that wear them now, yet you yourself admitted to still wearing them today?!
Odd mentality, don’t you think?
Little hypocritical, No?!
Even those wearing these in the 80s were pilfering the style from an earlier time. Remeber Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s? I could be wrong but I think they are from the 50s originally. They’ve definitely been around for eons, I don’t think anyone can complain just because they’re experiencing yet another upswing in popularity. It is kind of odd to reference a purchase in 2001 as being original.