The bastard child of goggles and bug-eyes, those buggles are everywhere in NYC. Huge, enormous, hide-me-from-the-press sunglasses, they make you look like you're an extra in "Aliens, Part III. Jackie-O wore buggles back in the seventies (very chic tortoise, as I recall) and now these cheap knockoffs are everywhere. Skinny-faced twenty-somethings. Seniors on their way to the doc. This morning our bus driver pulled up with a pair (it was NOT enhancing, believe me).

I think they're ugly, very few can carry off this look. Whaddya say, POL?

You mean like these?

http://www.tvsquad.com/images/2005/11/bartonrichie240.jpg

They dwarf this poor idiot.

You have to be a woman of some size and stature (Viking sized, like me!) to carry this off.

They're fine if you want to look like Elton John!

EXACTLY, Deeve! 90% of people end up looking like some googly-eyed village idiot. In some cases the shoe probably fits.

Oh, I think they're fun!
I have a big head, so naturally I'm glad they came back in style!!! *LOL*

But, seriously...glasses were getting smaller and smaller, made for seal heads, it appeared...
I got tired of looking at everyone trying to look like a seal, when they really needed sea-lion sized glasses.
They're fun. They're bold. They're out of the mold. Not staid and boring like everything else for the past ten years.
I love 'em!!! *LOL*

Yikes!!!!!

I'm light sensitive, so I like big sunglasses. But, yes, some of them do look "buggy". Don't worry, something new will surface. Hopefully aviators.

Rather than buggles, how about these?



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I wear aviators. I never liked the buggle look but I have to admit they probably do a better job of keeping out glare.

Don't worry! Five years from now we'll all wear them and think they look fine. :-)

I have to agree. I'm ready to get away from the teeny-weeny glasses that have been trendy for the past 10 years and make everyone's eyes look piggy. Maybe we don't need huge glasses (why does the pendulum always have to swing from one extreme to the other?), but I'm ready for something larger, especially in sunglasses to cut down glare and preserve eyes from problems.

I like'em. My mom used to wear them in the early 70's.

I also think of Jacqeuline Susann when I think of these shades, and Joan and Ethel Kennedy. And of course, Yoko Ono, before she switched to those expensive Euro skiing-type glasses.

Also: Pat The Hip Hypnotist. Peggy Lee.

Click to view attachmentI prefer those big, wraparounds . . . the ones people wear to protect their eyes, from cataracts. Just be glad you're not in church, during a funeral, sitting between two women, both of whom are wearing HUGE sunglasses . . . one wore Paloma Picasso's . . . the other: Charles Jourdan. With the priest, concentrating on ME.

Personally, I like sunglasses that make you look like you were climbing Mount Everest in the 1940's OR you were one of the Andrews Sisters:

or these:

The bigger the better! I think part of carrying it off is height, yes but also a non-see thru lense. Mine are all black lenses, you cant see the eyes when you wear them.

I actually was thinking of buying a pair of those oversized sunglasses you see senior citizens sport so often...I actually think they are chic in a way, and I could wear them over my glasses when I dont wear contacts:-)

Twitchly here's my take: so that people with teeny weeny sunglasses will feel hopelessly out of style and feel a need to run out and buy big ones! If styles were somewhere in the middle, changes would not be so obvious and you could get away with wearing your old pair. Bad for sales!

Anyone comes near me with them on, I'm pulling out my can of Raid.

In my best Edina voice from AbFab... "Sorry sweetie, thought you were a bloody wasp with those big eyes."

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Took the words out of my mouth.....eh...fingers!




That's true....sadly.....