The monocle is the must-have fashion accessory of 2014, apparently.
According to a batshit insane article about monocle-wearing hipsters in The New York Times — because nothing's hipper than The New York Times — the one-lensed eyepiece is making a comeback.
"I got it just to have my own style, bring something new to the table," said rapper Jose Vega, 23, seen here looking completely ridiculous while wearing a monocole in his Soundcloud profile pic.
"Also, I'm nearsighted," added Vega, without a hint of irony.Martin Raymond, a British 'trend forecaster', credits the monocle's comeback to "the new gents", a hipster subspecies he's seen emerging in hipster hotbeds around the world. Raymond, on the frontline of these things, says he sees the monocle appearing in Berlin and parts of South Dublin; in Cape Town, he saw a group of new gents "carrying monocles along with tiny brass telescopes kept in satchels".
So, wait. Why aren't "tiny brass telescopes kept in satchels" the new trend, then? If we're going to wear monocles, why aren't we going all the way here?
Raymond says "all of this is part of a sense of irony and a way of discovering and displaying old artisanal and craft-based technology," which sounds like a New York Times-approved way of saying "some hipster bros thought this shit would be funny," which, yeah, sounds about right.
[via The New York Times]
