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Amusing Unintended Consequence of Wearing Ultra-Thin Eyeglasses

Not the designer's fault

By Rain Noe - March 27

in Object Culture

An industrial designer can't be expected to imagine every offline consideration of what they design, right?

Think of those ultra-thin, presumably titanium eyeglasses that you picture Swiss architects wearing. Now imagine one of them puts it down on a patterned tablecloth or bedspread, like this:

Amusingly, that photo was posted by a Redditor with the caption "Couldn't find my glasses for 3 hours - a task made even tougher by the fact that I wasn't wearing my glasses SMH."

(If you can't find the glasses in the photo, imagine the image as being an unnumbered one-month calendar. The specs are in the neighborhood of the third day of the first week.)

The subReddit it was posted on is itself amusing. It's called r/AccidentalCamouflage.

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Ryan Cee

7 months ago

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Nearly blind as heck and nothing is worse than sleepily knocking my thin-framed glasses on the floor.

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Dee An

7 months ago

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Given the huge variety of eyeglasses that are available, and knowing the the user still choose this pair... then yes, the designer definitely is not responsible for this situation!
However, even if the user has conservative tastes, they could still have a bright colour on the inside end of the arms, invisible when worn but easier to see when the specs are mislaid. Like the coloured 'flash' on the inside of a conservative shirt or jacket.
I have two pairs of spectacles, one with thin brown metal frames, another with thick lime green plastic frames... no prizes for guessing which is easier to find (in all but very specific conditions). I think the green ones make me look like a French person (the French more than us Brits celebrate specs with chunky frames in bold colours), but strangers have asked me if I am an architect - or a c****** dealer! - when I've worn them.

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