When I was in sixth grade, I noticed that the writing on the chalkboard in the front of my classroom was a little bit blurry. I obviously decided to just squint my eyes and not tell my parents. The thought of having to get glasses at the time felt devastating, and so I decided I would probably be better off just struggling to read what my teacher was attempting to teach me. A couple weeks later at a doctor’s checkup, the seeing chart ratted me out. I was nearsighted, and I needed glasses pretty much immediately. I cried so hard my parents told me I could get contact lenses instead, and I’ve worn them now for as long as I can remember.
In the decades since, my insecurity over glasses faded when I realized that they weren’t some harbinger of uncoolness. But still, I never really wanted to be seen wearing mine outside the confines of my apartment until I saw the F/W 23 Miu Miu show.
