Buddy Holly Glasses Fad Please Stay!

Trendy teens and twenty somethings gather ’round as I tell you why I love those black, plastic lined frames.  Way before that hot chick’s dad on Heros donned a pair of semi-Holly specs these glasses made their debut.  And no you on the verge of 30 blog lurkers, I’m not just talking about a Weezer song.  They are retro and not 80s retro, but retro retro.  You know, before color TV retro; that malt shop going, sock hop dancing, and “I like Ike” type of retro.  Which in my eyes sure is swell.  So pull up a chair, or a carpet square depending on your age, hunker down in your fallout shelter and let me tell you why I think this fad needs to hang around.

(The Author requests that if you own a pair of Holly-Specs that you read this blog entry with them on.)

Buddy Holly

First let me define “Holly-Specs” since, this is the term I will now use in reference to these glasses.

Holly-Specs /HOL-ee SPe-ks/ noun:  Glasses consisting of large, black plastic rims.  Often containing silver dots in each corner for flare. Originated with Buddy Holly.  See Also: RayBan or 1950s High School Nerd.  (image above)

Now, why do I love this fad and why do I think it should stay around?  Really, the answer to both of these questions are the same.  Frist and foremost, these glasses are just plain fun.  I can always get behind a fashion statement that allows me to smile.  This has not been the case for recent trends like Crocs, Ugg Boots, and over-sized neon 80s plastic jewelry.   These are fashion products that come with excuses.

I know, they’re hideously ugly, but they really are comfortable.

I don’t buy it.  Anytime you need to justify why you are wearing what you are wearing you should have never put it on in the first place.  Its as bad as going out in fur or pleather- you’re always going to have to be on the fashion defensive, which makes for a long day of explaining why you spent $300 on an outfit you’re uncomfortable in.  Face it,  you’re day is doomed to failure and you should have learned a long time ago that the need to preface anything fasion statement with “I know, but” isn’t a statement.  It is a mistake.

The great thing is that Holly-Specs come excuse free.  You put them on and it is instantaneous smiles of yourself and the people around you.  Seriously, try to not have a good time when you feel like at any point you could bust out the lastest moves from American Bandstand.  Moreover, Holly-specs make you feel 12 times smarter.  Worried about sputnik or the A-bomb?  It is okay.  You have all the answers because, unlike other glasses, you don’t wear Holly-Specs to make yourself seem mature.  No, you wearing them because you need them to study.  It does not matter if you actually need them or whether or not you actually study, all that matters is that people think you do.  As an added bonus to the “I study” facade, it makes men less threatening to overprotective fathers.  Got a date?  Wear some Holly-Specs.   Dads of this generation will not believe that any man wearing the pair of glasses that the kids from his high school science club has any moves with the ladies.  SCORE!  (Literally, Score!)

Most importantly, Holly-Specs show personality.  They say that you can have fun, yet still be serious.  They are to glasses what mullets are to hair.  Except they don’t bring up thoughts of NASCAR,  trailer parks, or make you think that the domestic spouse abuser you’re wearing under you’re bud light shirt is most likely covered bbq stains on it (a sucker bet I take anytime someone wears a beer-sponsored shirt) .  Holly-specs also doesn’t have a bad ambassador like Billy Ray Cyrus. They have Buddy Holly who is eternally cool.  Come to think of it they aren’t the mullet of the glasses world.  They are just plain fantastic.

Buy a pair.  Wear them.  Make yourself happy.  It so easy to fall in love with Holly-Specs.