I feel like a lot of adults wore these back in the day, though

Yep. It looks like 80’s/90’s Delta Force glasses. They are basically like the BCG’s you get in boot, but Delta automatically make them badass and probably 5 different types of weapons.

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MistaRekt@reddit

I was never a homosexual until I just saw that photo.

Put some warnings up bro!

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Nickbou@reddit

Imagine Rick Moranis being cast to play this guy in a movie. I have no idea how that could actually happen, but I would immediately buy a ticket to see it.

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A guy in his 20s at my work had those for some reason. Never suited him. Thankfully (for his own sake), he lost them and had to get a new pair, much more modern. Funny how everyone clearly felt the same way as me but never said anything, more than a few people mentioned how the “serial killer” vibe really wasn’t doing him any favours!

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Illustrious-Low3948@reddit

My father wore those. He was not a serial killer.

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msheehan418@reddit

Jeffery???

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depictionofmood@reddit

Yeah a lot of men wore that style. The person comes across as intelligent but detached and like a disciplinarian - boss or teacher, or cop, and not in a good way. They look super creepy on the wrong person.

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stevetures@reddit

I feel like this says more about the era when serial killers were more prevalent. I don't want to misquote the study that I don't fully remember, but I think some of it tied it to less mental health services after the dismantling of the mental health hospitals (which definitely needed reform, but probably should have stuck around) and fallout from cold war veterans having or translating PTSD onto others (which, again, is really more about making sure than veterans have good mental health access and are asked to fight clear outcome and just wars).

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muffadel@reddit

Yeah, these or those Sally Jesse Raphael frames were pretty much all there was back then.

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_ism_@reddit

They were, and they still make people creepy somehow, and I hate that they came back on trend.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

They were ugly then and now. Yuk.

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datazulu@reddit

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Rewatching Napoleon Dynamite recently, and I was like, "what year is this supposed to take place?" Forgetting how old the movie actually is.

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datazulu@reddit

Mid-west 90's. I hear time moves slower out there.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

It was filmed in Idaho, and I guess set there, so... Look, I'm not going to throw shade at Idaho, but...

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FaintCommand@reddit

I grew up in a smallish town in Idaho and it was pretty on point. I even had that trapper keeper.

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DenvahGothMom@reddit

Yeah, I'm really gonna need people to stop calling places like Idaho, Montana, Utah and Colorado the midwest. Ohio and Iowa are the midwest and all of these Westen states are like 1500-2000 miles away and culturally not the same at all.

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

2004 is referenced in the campaign posters, but it is very 80s/90s inspired

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PapaTua@reddit

Rural Idaho is at least 6 years behind the rest of the country, so if it was set in 2004 Idaho, it's like it was really filmed in 1998. 🤣

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

Most rural areas felt and looked like the 70s until well into the late 80s.

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Turbulent-Pea-8826@reddit

They live with their grandmother in a rural area. I suspect fashion and decor are a bit behind.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Good point. I thought that, as well.

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SnowMission6612@reddit

The writers/director are Mormon. I recall hearing that they deliberately made everybody out-of-date fashion-wise to mirror their upbringing of Mormons (at least rural ones?) always being a couple decades out of date.

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Amishpornstar7903@reddit

Also in fashion for a while for some reason.

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jessek@reddit

Serial killer or math/woodshop teacher

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quickblur@reddit

Or a guy trying to sell you carpet.

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Chemical_Shallot_575@reddit

588-2300

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HicJacetMelilla@reddit

I used the Empire song to teach my kids my phone number lol

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powderedmilf@reddit

🎶 Empiiiiiiiiirre 🎶

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bargle0@reddit

Today.

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throwawaytoday9q@reddit

The “Today” part wasn’t part of the original marketing. It got tagged on later.

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thrust-johnson@reddit

“These will really free up my hands for strangling.”

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childofeye@reddit

My grandfather was a math/woodshop teacher and he rocked these glasses as long as i can remember.

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InfowarriorKat@reddit

They were common. I think the stereotype came from wearing them past the time of them being in fashion. Something someone living on the fringes of society would do.

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ImmaDrainOnSociety@reddit

Well, the men at least. Women round ones with lenses that took up half their face.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Yeah, they did!

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Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit

It’s kind of like how we didn’t figure out h til like 2994 you could put wheels on a suitcase. It took us until around then to also realize there could be more than one kind of glasses frames.

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Zilhaga@reddit

Yeah, men had these or like, the dark rimmed ones and that was that. Fancy older men had smaller wire frames, and I assume the young just squinted.

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Nickbou@reddit

It’s not that simple. Other frames existed, but the aviator style posted here were popular in the 70’s/80’s partly because they allowed for large lenses. This meant you could see more of your periphery. Also, this style was in fashion at the time, so lots of people (not just serial killers) wore these.

The downside of these is that they were heavy. The larger the lenses, the thicker the lens needs to be at the outer edges. “Coke bottle glasses” was a term used because the lenses were thick like the bottom of a glass Coke bottle. People started to shift towards smaller frames with smaller lenses to reduce the weight.

The style has somewhat come back, but with advances in lens materials and shaping, the lenses aren’t nearly as thick and heavy.

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Sorry-Joke-4325@reddit

Also it was necessary because the lens technology wasn't evolved so a lot of people were wearing very thick and heavy lenses so the frames needed to support that.

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Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit

Wow. You beat the shit out of that joke.

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cerealkilla718@reddit

This made me laugh.

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JadieRose@reddit

Or that nobody roasted vegetables until the 90s. They were all boiled or steamed previously

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cranberries87@reddit

90s? I didn’t figure it out until the 2010s! 😩

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Losing-My-Hedge@reddit

Right?

The internet has ruined a lot of things, but raising the bar on basic cooking knowledge isn’t one of them.

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Alarmed_Drop7162@reddit

Found Jim Jeffries alt.

https://youtu.be/I3yNkqVez7w?si=fKJO-uwguktFLzbe

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Mostly_Armless42@reddit

Truth. So this just shows us that serial killers are sort of mostly stuck in one time period in American history: when we finally started noticing patterns well enough to recognize they exist, but before we got great at tackling the problem. As is the case with other diseases - there's a period between identifying them and addressing them. Yes, they existed before then, and we knew of them (like Jack the Ripper), but those were more rare.

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

Look up Dean Corl ('the candyman') if you haven't.

Fucking dozens' of handsome, usually blonde teenage boys were going missing in the same couple of areas of Houston for years* and the police apparently never put two and two together.

They also probably never found a lot of his victims because he died (shoy by a teen accomplice) and the police were allegedly told to stop digging after he equalled the current serial killer record at the time.

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pinkocatgirl@reddit

It's been suggested that the boom in serial killers in the 70s and 80s was from children raised around lead in gasoline and paint. The massive downward trend in serial killers since both were banned seems to suggest that it's a credible correlation.

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CrouchingDomo@reddit

Tangent: I love esoteric, super-zoomed-out, Dr. Manhattan-style analyses like this. It’s been my main way of coping with [gestures broadly at everything] since the pandemic started 😂

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FuckYouNotHappening@reddit

So many young women wear these glasses now in an unironic fashion.

These glasses and the half-tucked button down shirt give me the ick.

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Significant-Bag-9628@reddit

Chris Chan.

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DanOfAllTrades80@reddit

I had these glasses forever. It's the only frame that our welfare insurance fully covered, so it's the only frame I was allowed to get.

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soundfeel@reddit

Goddamit, I just bought a pair.

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Gorkymalorki@reddit

I had a pair back in 4th grade around 91 or 92?

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nerdburgger84@reddit

Thought this was my brother for a sec, but he was wearing a Metallica t-shirt. I loved those school pics with sweet lasers in the background. They should bring that back!

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

Perfection. The Ministry shirt really ties it all together.

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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

My dad had those and was a cereal killer; mostly Grape Nuts and Honey Bunches of Oats.

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

Grape Nuts are underrated! I love them.

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guidevocal82@reddit

Not just adults. My first pair of glasses in the late 80's were just like this. I hated them, and got a pair of smaller frames soon after.

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MartialBob@reddit

My father had those and then he got the ones with the gradient tinting.

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cerealkilla718@reddit

I need tinted glasses. Everyone has god damn surgery grade floodlight strength lightbulbs that shine brighter than gods asshole everywhere. Even in my own home. When I leave my bedroom I feel like I just left the strip club at 9 am.

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CrouchingDomo@reddit

The gradient-tinted ones are my current favourite sunglasses; I call them my Boogie Nights sunglasses. Make me feel foxy 😀

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PapaTua@reddit

You're one foxy bitch.

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nocapnonerf@reddit

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Dahmer wore them

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DookieMcDookface@reddit

I’ve always called them Dahmer glasses. Crazy gen z is bringing them back.

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cerealkilla718@reddit

My friend's dad in his 60's has had them so long they came back in style.

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MisRandomness@reddit

I’m from Milwaukee and remember the Dahmer discovery. Every time I see someone with these glasses, that’s all I can think about. People choosing to look like cannibalistic serial killers.

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darkdesertedhighway@reddit

Same. I think our age is showing because I feel like Dahmer and these glasses are inextricably linked, and it blows my mind people wanna resemble him.

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yarnandwienerdogs@reddit

Even though they're popular again now, I still can't help but think of them as "Dahmer Glasses" when I see them.

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JuliusSeizuresalad@reddit

You don’t want your glasses falling down while your strangling a young lady in your car on an abandoned winding road

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Forsaken_Fig_@reddit

20+ years ago, a lot of kids were wearing these glasses because they were the most affordable..and not because they thought they were cute.

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perfumefetish@reddit

I call them the child molester glasses.....

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BenCelotil@reddit

Hey now, I bought my golden-brown tinged aviators based on Al Pacino's portrayal of Lefty, not some serial ...

Oh wait.

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BenPsittacorum85@reddit

I need to get a pair of those so people leave me alone more often. ;p

Really though, when working at plastics factories having large glasses and side shield attachments are a necessity, in addition to have more field of view in focus. Also helps when people at crappy work places yell, "die cracker" and throw things at you. Not as good for times when people throw hot coffee in your face while calling you slurs, but for smaller fragments it helps prevent loss of vision.

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MetaVulture@reddit

I wore these for 15 years.

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ilDuceVita@reddit

What's your kill count?

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Indubitalist@reddit

The kids call it “body count.”

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ilDuceVita@reddit

A person wearing these has a body count of 0

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nocapnonerf@reddit

Did you neutralize anyone? 😆

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MetaVulture@reddit

I am not at liberty to discuss the years between 2000 and 2015. Because they were embarrassing years.

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cranberries87@reddit

These are back in style. I see a lot of millennials and Gen Z wearing them; I even know a Gen Alpha middle schooler who has a pair. They usually have clear, gold or silver frames.

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PhoneJazz@reddit

These have become fashionable among certain tastemaking/trendy women recently and I don’t get it.

Exhibit 1: Gwyneth Paltrow

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cranberries87@reddit

I see a lot of men wearing them too. A lot of times they have gold, silver or clear plastic frames.

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padreubu@reddit

I truly hate that pedo aviators have become fashionable. They’re the worst

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New_Stats@reddit

Idk why but society just keep bringing back the ugliest shit that I hated the first time around.

Fucking mullets, neon 80s shit (that went away pretty quick, thankfully) these glasses, UFOs, Ed Hardy shirts, other stuff I can't think of because I'm a woman of a certain age and and I have brain fog. It's horrible and it makes me cranky.

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therexbellator@reddit

Time is a flat circle.

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jtho78@reddit

“Trendy” or was her look by design for her court date?

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Equal_Question_4594@reddit

Apparently Sydney Sweeney wore here real glasses here. I’ve noticed this trend, too, and I don’t get it either! It’s like because they’re wealthy and attractive, they challenge themselves to wear the most unflattering things just because they can pull it off (or to see if they can) 😆. Either way, any time I see this style, I think “serial killer” lol.

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Weird_Cantaloupe2757@reddit

Yep, even Sydney Sweeney looks like a damn serial killer in them

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Acheloma@reddit

These glasses are actually selling the idea that big glasses and a ponytail could make an attractive woman unrecognizably plain looking.

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look_ima_frog@reddit

OMG I hate these fucking glasses. I have no idea why women wear them. When pretty celebrities wear them, it's like some thing where they want to take themselves down a notch; when non-celebrities wear them they just look fucking horrible. They make every woman look uglier when they wear them.

My wife has a friend who bought a really expensive pair and her daughter just calls her Dahmer every time they're on. Brilliant.

My wife got a set, she put them on and just looks awful with them. I hid them and eventually threw them away.

I cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone would want an accessory that makes them look worse. They aren't cool, they don't look good, they are a style that was ugly the first time around and they're still ugly. They're not contrarian or ironic. They're just fucking ugly. Fuck these glasses.

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Acheloma@reddit

You hid and threw away your wife's glasses instead of either dealing with it or talking like an adult? You have issues my dude

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look_ima_frog@reddit

Everyone has issues, judge if you like.

To be clear, I did tell her that they looked awful, they made her look worse than wearing literally any other type of eyewear.

She throws away my ugly shirts when I'm not looking so I don't see any major disparity here. Just part of married life.

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Freakin_A@reddit

She looks like ET pretending to be a woman.

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Losing-My-Hedge@reddit

Yeah they are certainly having a bit of a moment again, but I’ve not seen anybody really sticking with them. Like the young folks in my office will have a collection of glasses they wear, and this style seems to only make a few appearances before being dropped from rotation.

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Pale_Row1166@reddit

I was going to say, these are now reserved for hipsters or people trying to pass as hipsters but are actually trustafarians.

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DJMagicHandz@reddit

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Prestigious_Egg_6207@reddit

Do you think those are the same glasses?

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Dravian31@reddit

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122784@reddit

Came here looking for this 😂

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

First guy I thought of lol

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faille@reddit

My dad had these glasses and when I was young I wanted to be like him and have them too. Of course they had to be the adult pair because they either didn’t make them in kid size or I was too stubborn that it would be accurate. So my dumb skinny little girl ass wore these giant serial killer glasses for a year. Bless my parents for letting me go through with it but my fashion sense never improved 😹

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LevelPerception4@reddit

Usually accessorized with pocket protectors and problematic ties.

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weedtrek@reddit

I had them in 2nd grade.

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maggie320@reddit

I always call them Martina Navratilova glasses.

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schroobster@reddit

She did kill ... on the tennis court.

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littlebunnydoot@reddit

i wore these for my cultleader mardi gras costume a few years back

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Good pick of accessories!

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Ashamed-Status-9668@reddit

I'm guessing like all of us, serial killers have also seen Super Man movies.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Ha! Good one!

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seamonkey420@reddit

oh yea, these were very common. i found my dad's pair this year and got my lenses put in them. best way to keep a piece of my pops w/me at all times :)

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aaronsnothere@reddit

I, a random (reddit) internet person improve. Well done!

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

What are you improving?

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ItsSUCHaLongStory@reddit

Because they were covered by every health plan, public and private. Dunno if yall really remember what life was like pre-ACA, but these glasses kinda sum it up tbh

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

That makes a lot of sense, yeah.

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Coburghillz@reddit

I wore these in elementary school 😑

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ParsleyMostly@reddit

That’s just what men’s glasses looked like

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YouAreMySunshine78@reddit

They always reminded me of serial killer or a creepy person.

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Burlington-bloke@reddit

I just got new glasses at the Costco a month ago, and the GenZ chick kept suggesting glasses like these because "they're so popular". Bitch, I was forced to were those in the 90s. No one cares about being popular in their 40s

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Loveroffinerthings@reddit

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The real Scranton strangler

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Truckers wore these glasses. My dad was a trucker. Not the serial killer kind though.

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PurdyDot@reddit

I think my dad had a pair of those lol

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Tsunamiis@reddit

Being comically poor is definitely a choice

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krombough@reddit

Yup.

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No-Guard-7003@reddit

My dad wore them, too.

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mylocker15@reddit

Early 80’s were ground zero for super ugly glasses. Both genders. If you didn’t want to rock contacts in 1981 and had bad eyesight you were screwed.

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thelaineybelle@reddit

Incoming rant... My hubby is 49 and he bought some Gucci knockoff version of these goddamm glasses. They make me irrationally angry that he would wear something so damn ugly that is somehow worse than the 70s version my own father wore and still chose to spend human money on these fuckers. I'm talking big mad irrationally angry, wanna curb stomp them into oblivion, but can't bc he has a current prescription in them and it's not like new lenses are cheap. They literally kill any feelings of horny and incite my Perimenopause rage. -10/10 do not recommend 🤷‍♀️😵💀🤣

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SouthEastPAjames@reddit

And then when they brought back these frames and tried to make it a thing…..everyone looks like a creep.

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thesaddestpanda@reddit

These were often tje cheapest frames so they were popular. The same way the round Lennon glasses were common and cheap nhs eyewear and John wore them as a bit of a signal towards the working class and his roots.

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Chingachgook1757@reddit

Got some like these from the VA years ago.

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Blenderx06@reddit

My husband wore these when we got together (in late 2000s!) and you bet I went with him to help him pick out his next pair lol.

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Walksuphills@reddit

I wore glasses like that when I was 8.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

They look so heavy. Were they? I didn't get glasses until high school, and they weren't solid like these.

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Walksuphills@reddit

Not that I recall. They were plastic and obviously child sized.

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Corn_Beefies@reddit

I still rock the sunglasses version, they dope

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Zeqhanis@reddit

I had glasses like that as a kid. 😮‍💨

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ExampleMysterious870@reddit

My dad has these.

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JKolodne@reddit

I'm wearing similar glasses right now

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-ChadZilla-@reddit

Same. I get compliments on them frequently. I get that in many cases they don’t work for people, but I do think it’s possible to pull them off if you have style.

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DarkMode54@reddit

I absolutely had these in middle school. FML.

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riomx@reddit

I really wish this stupid meme about square aviators being serial killer glasses would just die. They were so common that everyone and their uncle wore them. The fact that some serial killers wore them is just because of how unremarkable and ubiquitous they were.

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bargle0@reddit

I wore these when I started wearing glasses in the third grade.

I switched up in the fifth grade when I decided it was time to stop killing.

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WolvesandTigers45@reddit

I had those glasses as a kid in the 80s

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Round-Passenger4452@reddit

Something about these glasses though. Whenever I’ve gone through the sex offender registry in my community there is a preponderance of them.

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vrgamemachine@reddit

Ah the classic Slay Bans

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Forever_Kikyou@reddit

This name wins! I love it!

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mydeadface@reddit

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Forever_Kikyou@reddit

I bet he's not quick to revisit this look if he ever needs readers.

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Doridar@reddit

Pretty standard indeed. Same for the sunglasses

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Second_Location@reddit

Trends come and go, tastes change over time, but ever since I was a small child in the 80s I have thought these were the most unattractive glasses known to man. You could put the hottest guy on the planet in these and it’s a dealbreaker for me.

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Forever_Kikyou@reddit

Also, b/c there is a chance he might kill you. There are 100% serial killer or rapist glasses. I was groomed & assaulted by a guy in a pair of these awful specs.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

It takes a certain kind of person to pull off the thick, heavy frames look.

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EndOk2237@reddit

Literally my partner's glasses when I met him. And yes, he has a weapons collection and a fedora collection. I've talked him into more "modern" glasses. He still has the other hobbies, but he's a good one, I swear! 🤣

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who_even_cares35@reddit

There were only like three frames for adults back then and one for kids.

Been wearing glasses since kindergarten in 1987. They didn't make decent glasses for kids till like 2007. Adults started seeing decent designs in the mid 90s

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ElmStreetDreamx@reddit

My first thought when seeing this post was Jeffrey Dahmer lol

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j1mmyfever@reddit

I have a modern pair of these. I may have just quit wearing them today…

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emorgan7731@reddit

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Missingsocks77@reddit

Yeah I hate to break it to the kiddos - but like most average men where walking around with these dorky glasses. My dad wore them for years and I am pretty sure he didn't kill anyone. At least like 99% sure.

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Scrotchety@reddit

Sadly, these look good on me. The last time I was shopping for frames I tried a pair on after 20 minutes of yucks and ewws, and these were the first that matched the dimensions of my face and skull, but I would never commit to a pair as long as I have fucks to give

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jimlahey2100@reddit

Those were the go to frames for men over 25 in the 70s and 80s.

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Punkinpry427@reddit

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jericho74@reddit

Ok you know so as a teenager who wore those very glasses back in the day, the idea was more to look like the commander of the los angeles class submarine in Hunt for Red October because he was awesome. No further questions at this time.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Oh, man, you're right! I love that movie, and I think it's about time I eat it again!

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

These are the glasses they gave me as a teenager. My eyesight dropped off the map very quickly and i needed thick lenses. I don't feel like I had much of a choice.

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Tdanger78@reddit

Adults? I saw some kids wearing them in the 90s

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HumbleAbbreviations@reddit

A surprising number of kids wore them when I was coming up in the 80s and 90s.

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Eclectic_Paradox@reddit

I'm wearing some wire framed aviators right now

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bivo979@reddit

I had a very similar pair when I was a kid.

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Rememberancy@reddit

My dad had some kinda like them. I used to swipe them and wear them when I went to buy cigarettes underage in the mid 90’s. Worked almost every time.

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GreenZebra23@reddit

They were very common men's glasses in that era. I think serial killers are just the only people of node we see from back then wearing those or any other kind of glasses. Movie stars and rock stars didn't wear glasses in that era, so outside of serial killers were only going to see them in Old family photos

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sedatedforlife@reddit

My dad’s glasses.

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Suspicious-Yard4205@reddit

I had these glasses as a kid and I hated them. The fact that they're fashionable makes all the times I was teased back then feels like an insult.

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

We didn't have much choice back then

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starshapedbox@reddit

Truth

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Facts.

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schoolisuncool@reddit

I’m wearing a pair right now lol more gold though

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geekgirlwww@reddit

Racist vigilantes as well Google Bernie Goetz

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feenixdung@reddit

Tbf they only had like 8 styles of glasses to choose from.

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jeng52@reddit

Dwight Schrute glasses are unexplainably popular again

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Remytron83@reddit

Most serial killers were adults. Makes sense.

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FearlessFerret7611@reddit

Adults? I wore these as a kid, they were my first glasses and I wore them through high school in the late 90's.

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Eaglepursuit@reddit

My first pair of glasses (4th grade) looked like that, thanks to my mom overriding my choice of frame. She said they would be more sturdy

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Captain3leg-s@reddit

Birth control glasses

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hammnbubbly@reddit

I feel like I see a lot of young people, especially young women, wearing these. I, for one, welcome the era of the female serial killer.

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PlauntieP@reddit

My husband has these glasses and it’s because he gets them from the VA. The VA doesn’t have any sort of fashion frames so he takes what he can get because they’re free.

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thevaginalist@reddit

I've always hated these glasses

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weeziefield1982@reddit

My dad had some and he was an electrician.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

They almost doubled as safety glasses!

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auditorydamage@reddit

I wore those, bifocals and all, during middle school. Unfortunately, the bifocals didn’t make reading any easier, for reasons that wouldn’t become clear (har har) for another two decades.

My choices in glasses improved when I moved away for school and friends helped me shop for new glasses instead of my parents.

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aweedl@reddit

Pretty sure both of my parents had a variation on these in the ‘80s.

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uncle_monty@reddit

Often accompanied by a moustache.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Very likely. No beard, though, mustache only.

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DestroyerTame@reddit

Now that I need progressives, rocking these big lens type of frames like this is the way to go.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

I'm sticking with regular contacts, plus reading glasses, which I should be wearing right now!

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Hoosier_Daddy68@reddit

No lie, those are exactly like my current glasses right down to the bifocal. Mine are darker but that's it. Definitely explains those compulsions.

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KrAEGNET@reddit

As someone who had a frame like these as a kid it was because they are one of a handful of frames fully covered by eye insurance.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Plus, probably not a lot of options even existed. I don't know, I didn't get glasses until high school in the mid 90s, and mine weren't quite like these.

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Bar_ice@reddit

My school picture from 2nd grade has me in these glasses. I was the only kid in my class who looked like he would kidnap himself.

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

Haha! Nice!

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Gonna_do_this_again@reddit

My dad wore them

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit (OP)

I think my dad did, too, and at least one of my uncles and a few of their friends.

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UntilTheSilence@reddit

I used to rock the hell out of these when I was 9. Made my blonde hair really pop. Then Step by Step came out and I had to switch up my game.

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elbr@reddit

I still wear them.

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mystiqueallie@reddit

My husband needed new glasses and came home with this style of glasses last year. I sent him a picture of Jeffrey Dahmer wearing them and he only wears his new glasses if he has to drive somewhere now. I told him to bring me with him next time he has to pick frames 😬

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Fluffy-Bluebird@reddit

My dad wore these will into the 90s. I don’t believe he is a serial killer. Glass trends just moved a lot slower and my dad’s interest in trends moved slower.

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Miz_momo82@reddit

My brother had these frames in the 80s

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TheHoodieConnoisseur@reddit

They were standard issue at my junior high school

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Rich_Celebration477@reddit

My dad being one of them

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sarahprib56@reddit

Mine, too.

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YaThinkYerSlickDoYa@reddit

My dad still wears these, too.

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RogueSqdn@reddit

I didn’t get glasses until I was 43. I’m 46 now and have had two pairs of Oakleys but the lenses are fairly small. I intend on getting bigger lenses like this or aviators next time so I don’t really see a line (edge of lenses) in my peripheral vision.

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Boetheus@reddit

The David Koresh special