Seriously folks, there are three people on the planet Earth who ever made Wayfarers look cool – James Dean, Andy Warhol, and Audrey Hepburn. They’re all dead now. Can this whole thing die too? Wayfarers are unfortunately misshapen and unflattering to most faces, they epitomize nerdiness (and not in a hip, vintage throwback way), and reached their plateau of popularity in the late Fifties. You can’t slap a coat of brightly colored paint on something that died with the times and assert it as the new irony of fashion when the last people to proprietize it as their signature were the likes of Corey Feldman and Lewis Skolnick. It does not compute. Are we really that low on sun-shielding options that we have to ratchet down to trends from bygone eras? What’s next, bootlegging and speakeasies?
