I've been legally blind since about 4th grade. Perhaps even a while earlier....I remember sitting in Dairy Queen on one of those BookSharp ( you read a book and take a test on the computer- if you pass then you get a certain amount of points for that book) fieldtrip. In Elementary school, there was a humongous bulletin board that contained cut out planets or giant ballons. Every kid had a small "marker-like" piece of a paper- in a shape corresponding to the larger theme- that contained their name. Every time one moved up to the next level...by gaining 50, or 100, or 150 etc. points they could move their name up to the next level....and I loved this. I wanted to have more points than anyone else...unfortunately there were always a few kids that would move their names more quickly than me.
Anyways, I went on a field trip to Dairy Queen...along with everyone else that was obsessed with reading, and they all just so happen to wear glasses. While sitting in our booth...me sans glasses...and the other three with glasses...decided to start trying on different people's glasses....and I put on this girl's ( her name was kerleshia) glasses and looked up at the menu from across the room and realized that I could read it! It was one of the most wonderful moments of my life. I think I thought her glasses just gave her super powers to read things...but I told my mom about her super neat glasses and well...she put two and two together and we went to the optometrist.
Ever since then I've been wearing incredible thick glasses. I hate the thin and small framed glasses. I was overjoyed when thick plastic glasses came into fashion.
Right now, I'm thrilled because lately I've been seeing oversized glasses worn. A complete vintage look- the large "D" shaped glass. This is perfect! Nothing gives me a worse headache than looking up, down, or out the side of my glasses.
So Dear J.Crew,
Thank You....perhaps because of your lovely models and fashions I might be brave enough to purchase and sport these rather large glasses. It might permanently end the headaches associated with the lenses being too small to look through all the time.
With much admiration,
-T
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