/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

[Anonymous No.6994232]

If I see one more "hipster so-and-so" cosplay I might lose my shit.

No offense to pic related in particular, but is this stupid fad ever going to die?

>tfw idiots wearing glasses without lenses makes me want to poke them right in the eye

[Anonymous No.6994245]

[Anonymous No.6994249]

traci hines is such a shit cosplayer. way too much make up and big horse teeth.

[Anonymous No.6994250]

"OF COURSE YOU DON'T THINK IT'S FUNNY, STUPID NORMAL PERSON, I'M FROM THE INTERNET."

[Anonymous No.6994263]

>>6994261
Get new glasses then, you hipster.

[Anonymous No.6994261]

I actually wear glasses sort of like that so sometimes if I'm in costume, people will mistake me for HIPSTER BLAH BLAH BLAH and I always want to slap them.

[Anonymous No.6994268]

>>6994263
>get new glasses
wish I could afford it but they cost about 400 a pair because of what's wrong with my eyes and the lenses they need. So if there isn't actually anything wrong with them then it's a waste of money to buy a new pair.

[Anonymous No.6994270]

>get fun of as a kid for wearing glasses and liking nerd shit
>it's now trendy to wear fake glasses and like nerd shit
>"hey anon, are your glasses real?"

[Anonymous No.6994272]

>>6994268
Punch your eye doctor for being unable to surgically fix your eyes for free.
He's the asshole.

[Anonymous No.6994274]

>>6994272
lel anon, won't be taking that advice but as soon as I get some eye insurance, contacts here I come.

[Anonymous No.6994276]

Flower crowns are the new nerd glasses in cosplay.

[Anonymous No.6994332]

this

hipster isn't even an irl thing anymore since everyone and their mother now buys what once would have been branded as hipster wear from kohls

[Anonymous No.6994334]

>>6994250
this reminds me of people who use phrases like "over 9000" IRL

[Anonymous No.6994340]

>>6994268
How bad are your eyes? They're probably not worse than mine and I bought my glasses for $100 no insurance.

[Anonymous No.6994348]

>>6994340
Mine are pretty bad.
Was born cross eyed, had laser eye surgery almost immediately after that to correct it and have worn glasses every since.
Because of something related to the way my eye balls are shaped, the lenses have to made a certain way and apparently this is rather expensive.
I'm only 22 so I'm only just recently getting to a place where I actually need to cover my own medical things.
Anyway, last pair I bought cost about 372 and that was without the anti reflector coating, which would have added another 80 or so.

[Anonymous No.6994350]

Steampunk hasn't died yet, so I'm willing to bet this fad will cling to its miserable existence for quite some time.

[Anonymous No.6994377]

I feel bad for liking those square bulky frames. Not because I'm a "hurddurr hipsturr" it's just that I have a very round, flat face and the glasses help balance it. I own a plano pair. Obv I wouldn't think to make a cosplay or a lolita coord with them, but sheesh. I really don't get the hate. Also
>getting made fun of in general for wearing fashion glasses when you don't actually have an eye problem

[Anonymous No.6994395]

>>6994377
>fashion glasses

[Anonymous No.6994407]

>>6994270
This.

When I was in school, I was fucking shunned.
I wasn't even a fucking loud weeaboo, all I did was show interest in anime whenever I met another person who like that ind of shit.
Now every fucking kid and their mother is running around going LOL I LIKED ANIME/COMICS ALL ALONG HAR HAR HAR WHY ARE MANGAS BACKWARDS??? XD XD XD XD

Jesus fucking christ

[Anonymous No.6994428]

>>6994377
Get a laser operation. $2k, permanent fixed eyevision.

[Enver !!52WOxLC+CKW No.6994427]

>>6994232
Why must every hipster cosplay use realD 3D glasses with the lenses popped out.

[Anonymous No.6994433]

>>6994407
I also know this feel. I was a tomboy who was really into star wars and dragon ballz. They didn't make a lot of clothes for the things I liked for girls, so everyone always called me a lesbian. Had really bad vision and astigmatism so I had (and still technically do) thick rim glasses to hold my impossibly thick glasses. I had rocks thrown at me all the time. At least I didn't have braces though...

[Anonymous No.6994447]

>>6994377
I find they suit me more more than wire frames too, because I have small eyes and a relatively big nose and mouth, and they take the focus away from my nose especially.

[Anonymous No.6994452]

>>6994348
They can actually tell that stuff- is it like by an eye test or a physical examination? Your eyes are surely worse than mine but I feel your pain.
I wear contacts anymore.. but I have backup glasses I'm too embarrassed to wear because back in high school, of the accusations of "hipster" ran rampant when I ran out of contacts and had to where them while waiting for the order to come in.

I ended up with the pair in an attempt to get the biggest but least grandma-ish glasses possible, in an experiment to see if things would be better (also to balance big Polish nose), but instead everything looks sort of like a fisheye lense without the black edges.

The funny thing is they're from a line by fuckin Randy Jackson. Oh yes. Sooo hipster.

[Anonymous No.6994453]

>>6994452
*wear
whoops

[Anonymous No.6994470]

Ugh I know the feel. I was too smart as a kid. In middle school I tried to explain my long thought out philosophy to the other girls that no one is exactly "normal" and that everyone is weird in their own special way. So yeah a bunch of stupid, bratty middle schoolers didn't take that well. They followed me to my locker and tore out all my stuff and threw it down the hall. Later that week one grabbed the back of my shirt and pulled so hard it ripped. Then when they found out I liked Digimon dear god....

But hell it made me a stronger, wiser person today. Kids have it so easy today with all the political correctness.

[Anonymous No.6994472]

>>6994428
Also, that being said, I personally wear a pair of black ray-bans.. Not wayfarer, but close enough.

Fuck the police. It's a timeless model and it looks good. I've never had anyone act poorly because of my glasses.

>>6994427
Because of their size and their availability.

[Anonymous No.6994486]

>>6994350
But steampunk is a legitimate subculture, and has plenty of room for creativity, and is an established genre in books/movies/comics/what the fuck ever.

Hipster is just a stupid fad.

[Anonymous No.6994512]

As a wearer of glasses, I find fashion glasses (lenses popped out/non prescription) mildly annoying. For the longest time, everyone I knew who needed glasses either didn't wear them because their eyesight wasn't so bad, or got contacts. But I realize that glasses are an accessory now, so I don't waste my breath complaining about it.

Though I do find it interesting that people are now so eager to have glasses (whether or not they actually need it). Aren't we a species that strives for perfection? Bad eyesight is an imperfection if I ever saw one. What's next? Fashion braces?

[Anonymous No.6994521]

>>6994512
>Fashion braces?
I take it you don't listen to a lot of hip-hop

[Anonymous No.6994545]

>>6994512
I think what you're feeling is artificial.
Assuming when you say "for the longest time," you're referring to your past, and particularly your past when you were younger.
Kids and young teens generally don't like wearing glasses. They're annoying, they get in the way, and when you want to romp around and play they can be a nuisance. Not to mention they're expensive.

When I was little I had a lazy eye and had to wear an eyepatch for a couple years. After that glasses for a year or two because my right eye was bad. I hated it the entire time. I thought they were dorky and ugly. And I feared being judged by all the rest of my friends without glasses. When I had glasses they were a constant burden because I had to make sure they weren't lost or damaged.

As an adult I don't need glasses. But I still wear fashion frames and contacts because for me it's not about being judged by others or having frames interfere with what I want to do. I still haven't met a younger kid that enjoys glasses 100%, and generally the only teenagers I've seen who actually enjoy them are the ones who shop at Hot Topic and enjoy trendy shit to begin with.

[Anonymous No.6994569]

>>6994545
>for the longest time

[Anonymous No.6994639]

>>6994270

That's why this whole thing pisses me off so much, too. When I was a kid I got picked on for wearing glasses and now suddenly it's cool?

[Anonymous No.6994653]

>>6994545
You make a good point. As a kid my mom told me to leave my glasses in class during recess, but I hated not being able to see shit so I broke/lost many pairs back then. My eyesight degenerated very quickly, so perhaps I'm just projecting my necessity for wearing glasses, since I don't think I know anyone who has eyesight as bad as I do.

I guess what's most annoying to me about fashion glasses are the ones with no lenses. Or fucking sunglasses with the lenses popped out. Because, truthfully, you don't know if lenses have a prescription or not, unless you ask.

[Anonymous No.6994656]

>>6994512
Haha, I remember being in elementary school and my friends and I were excited about the prospects of having them...until we did.

[Anonymous No.6995196]

>>6994521
Fashion braces were actually a thing in china but I heard there were banned from most places for some reason. But this just spawned a black market for fake braces.

[Anonymous No.6995201]

can we stop calling these hip because trust me if it's only 16 year old white girls... it ain't hip.

[Anonymous No.6995203]

>>6994332
Yes, it is. Have you BEEN to Austin? It's tragically hip. But it's not what you apparently think it is. Because it's not just 'movie theatre glasses with the lenses popped out'. Do you really think anyone who is the least bit ~hip would dress up like the opening line of a T-Swift video?

[Anonymous No.6995801]

>>6994433

you sound cute, i want to hold your hand and make love to you once, just once to see what it's like. (:

[Anonymous No.6995887]

>>6994486
HAHAHAHA oh wow. 8/10 almost fell for it

[Anonymous No.6995891]

>>6994470
is this a picture of you?

[falcone !falconTsII No.6995933]

>caring what other people wear

[Anonymous No.6995940]

" Im so sick of seeing ___ cosplay"
Said everyone ever. Get over it OP. It'll pass.

[Anonymous No.6996782]

It's so weird. Ever since school I would always pick the thinnest pair of glasses possible so that I wouldn't stand out more than I did (I also have Tourettes and an outside-country accent at the time, as well as being skinny as fuck and loving the vidya) but nowadays everybody wants to stand out as a "nerd". I don't have a problem with new people taking up our hobbies (I'm not THAT much of an elitist) but I can't wait for the "nerdz Iz kool" trend to be over.

[Anonymous No.6996817]

hipster morrigan oh fuck yeah

[Anonymous No.6996873]

>>6996817
Hipster? It looks more like pastel goth.

[Anonymous No.6997035]

>>6996817
>tfw this is just pastel kei.

[Anonymous No.6997231]

>>6996817
Where can I get that sweater? I'm afraid if I asked the cosplayer herself she may not answer.

[Anonymous No.6997245]

>>6997231
Here you go, anon

http://www.glitterhell.com/collections/tees/products/decarabia-unisex-sweater

[Anonymous No.6997252]

>>6994232

But Tumblr says it's cool! You all have Tumblrs, you must think it's cool, too.

[Anonymous No.6997267]

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQaGVbDPj3Y

[Anonymous No.6997290]

For an upcoming cosplay I purchased a pair of frames that looked close to canon, but they don't have lenses, how bad is it going to look?

[Anonymous No.6997345]

>>6997245

Thank you so much! <3

[Anonymous No.6997348]

>>6997290
>canon
>thread is discussing fan-made "hipster" versions of characters

nobody is going to care.

[Anonymous No.6998361]

>>6994245
this really fucking rustles my jimmies

[Anonymous No.6998367]

>>6994433
Oh my god you are me, minus the stigmatism. Had super thick glasses though. Sometimes my mom would get my hair cut super short and people would ask if I was a boy

[Anonymous No.6998420]

Larger-rimmed glasses looked kinda neat until this whole hipster thing got blown out of proportion. They're not really anything special anymore.

I have terrible eyesight and have to wear glasses. I don't get along well with contacts, but I don't mind the glasses. It just makes it difficult to choose when you're trying to avoid looking like a fad, while also trying to avoid looking ugly.
I have a very round face, so squarer lenses have helped me out a bit. But luckily I've found a balance between square-round-thick-think-whatever to suit my face without coming off as hipster.
I will likely get laser surgery once I am secure in my finances. But even then, I'd be tentative to leave my glasses behind, since they help balance my face.
>Like the image of glasses
>Dislike /needing/ to wear them

Now, as a computer programmer, I often get hit with comments such as "You really look the type" or "wow you look like a nerdy girl," which are only spawned by their noticing my glasses. It's not a /bad/ thing, as it's mildly accurate--but not something I enjoy.

[Anonymous No.6998428]

>>6994407
Know that feeling. Like I didn't talk about comics all that much as a kid or anything but people knew that I liked them and I'd regularly get people calling me illiterate for reading "picture-books" but now people (some of which were the ones who gave me shit as a kid) are asking for recommendations now that Batman and The Avengers are cool

[Anonymous No.6998934]

>>6995203
I've heard Austin is the new Portland

[Anonymous No.7002621]

>>6995933
Hipster cosplays are annoying, yes I care.

[Anonymous No.7006000]

>>7002621
I understand you don't like it, but IMO they are quite interesting, i will never use a Hipster cosplay, but that doesn't mean that they sucks, is just something different...

[Anonymous No.7006025]

>>6998934
Austin wants so badly for Portland-senpai to notice him.

[Anonymous No.7008553]

[Anonymous No.7008612]

>>6994512
Fashion braces used to be a thing in Korea, and are still a thing in Thailand.

[Anonymous No.7008775]

Well... i will make a hipster cosplay... why? CAUSE I CAN! WUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Actually no i won't, but what's the problem? there are many types of cosplay that i don't like... but i can't hate the person who do it just because he/she like it

[Anonymous No.7008807]

>spend hundreds of dollars on prescription glasses
>frequently asked if they're real
>few occasions of people putting their grubby fingers on the lenses without asking to see if they're real
>often accused of being a hipster

They aren't even that big, just have black frames.

[Anonymous No.7008839]

>>6994428
My corneas are too thin or something apparently. I tried ;_;

[⌠†౿ ʳ⌡ No.7012690]

>tfw always made fun of for "poindexter" frames
>tfw your only other option is little kids or wiry metal frames
>tfw cant afford any custom fit new ones or contacts
should I just go with the thin metal or colored frames, or keep these?

[Anonymous No.7012725]

>>6994270
yeah but you were being sincere

irony is cool now

well not really, irony is pretty much over as a trend, but that means the normal people are latching on to it and milking it for all it's worth

[Anonymous No.7012738]

I wonder if people with natural curly hair in the 80s got annoyed by people asking them where they got their perm done or something. As far as the glasses go nearly every age group is into the frames where I live. It's a pretty average style now. Hell, even my nana wears glasses like that.

[Anonymous No.7012744]

>>7012738
>People with naturally curly hair in the 80s got annoyed by people asking them where they got their perm done
I get that NOW. Not the perm stuff, but the constant 'is it natural' and 'where did you get your hair done' is annoying.
Doesn't help that I don't just have curly hair, I have the really big ringlet curls.

[Anonymous No.7012745]

[Anonymous No.7012750]

>>7012690
As annoying as people think hipster frames are they still look a million times better than wiry frames.
>tfw when you see old photos where you have thin wire frames and you look ugly :(

[⌠†౿ ʳ⌡ No.7012762]

>>7012744
those are cute, who car if people don't know youre naturally cute man
>>7012750
yeah, I'd rather be overly trendy and get picked on and name called than minimize my immediate field of vision and depth perception. I LIKE being able to see the ground in front of me without moving my whole face downward while walking.

[Anonymous No.7012764]

>>6994276
yeah you can thank Lana del Ray for that

[Anonymous No.7012766]

>>7008775
Oh, man, this is embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.7012769]

>>7012766
Hahaha, no is not, i'm childish but you have to agree that these thread is also childish, you can't just say that (insert name here) is (insert insult here) cause he/she likes X or Y

[Anonymous No.7012770]

>>6994512
One of my friend's friends is blasting music in her ears 24/7 because she wants to be deaf, and then get herself a hearing aid so she can be a special snowflake.

As someone who actually has to wear a hearing aid, all I can say is she is out of her fucking mind.

People like this are the worst.

[Anonymous No.7012771]

>>6994433
Pretty much this. I didn't really get any girl friends until I went to college. I also pretty much avoided everyone by the time high school rolled around because I was just sick of all of their shit.
But ironically despite being such a tomboy back in the day I now have very girly tastes in clothing. It's so strange, all I wear now are like floral prints, go figure.

[Anonymous No.7012772]

>>7012764

[Anonymous No.7012774]

Here OP a couple of pics for you


O.T: I think that hipster cosplay are kind of cool, cause it gives the cosplayer the chance to use his/her imagination to create another type of costum without making the character lose its essence (I mean, when you see a Hipster Link, you still know that he's link)

[Anonymous No.7012780]

>>7012770
I don't hate hipster... and your friends isn't a hipster either, she's just a IDIOT! i mean... WTF IS SHE THINKING?!

[Anonymous No.7012782]

>>7012745
oh man this is actually kind of funny

[Anonymous No.7012783]

>>7012774
Hi Enver.

[⌠†౿ ʳ⌡ No.7012784]

>>7012770
Alright, this is fuckin dumb, but really something as widely needed as eye protection or even just extra sun coverage is acceptable for anyone to use as a head accsessory. Just because someone who is vision impaired can't take it off when we go indoors doesn't mean the ones who aren't don't have the right to wear things they like.

[Anonymous No.7012786]

>>7012783
I'm sorry for my lack of knowledge... but who's Enver?

[Anonymous No.7012789]

>>7012780
>and your friends isn't a hipster either, she's just a IDIOT!
I'd say she's both. She wears the big glasses and those stupid flimsy shoes, are they Tom's or toms? And always talks about how she likes Scandinavian metal bands instead of "mainstream shit". Fuck her.

[Anonymous No.7012795]

>>7012786
The person wearing the Hipster Link "costume" in the picture above.

[Anonymous No.7012798]

>>7012789
You should stop meeting her... cause there's saying in spanish who says: "Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are", and if your friends are retarded.... well... you know

[⌠†౿ ʳ⌡ No.7012799]

>>7012780
please just stop
>>7012774
I think that when you're cosplaying a character without glasses, you'd need to incoporate them via satire or parody to make it more interesting as a creative iteration, its far better than having everything else accurate but the glasses.

[Anonymous No.7012800]

>>7012780
>i mean.... WTF IS SHE THINKING?!
Please stop.

[Anonymous No.7012802]

>>7012795
Oh, Oks thanks :)

[Anonymous No.7012805]

>>7012798
I'm not friends with her. Like I said, she is a friend of a friend. And why that friend is friends with such a lunatic is beyond me.

[Anonymous No.7012806]

>>7012800
What's with all the "please stop."?

[Anonymous No.7012808]

>>7012805
Oh well, lets just hope he/she knows what he/she is doing

[Anonymous No.7012807]

>Be friends with (now former co-worker) for a while
>She's wearing hipster glasses
>Her eyesight is fine, goes on and on about how the lenses aren't real and that she's just wearing them for fashion
>I'm her only friend and the only person who knows this
>Stop talking to her cause she is really annoying
>One day she shows up to work without the glasses
>Whines all day about how "I can't see anything without my glasses lol"
>When asked by people why she isn't wearing them: "They broke, so I had to order new ones all the way from Uruguay, so it'll take about a month before I can get new ones!!!!"
>Two days later, nobody give her any attention for it anymore
>Next day after that, show up to work with same glasses, never speak of it again

I STILL DON'T GET THIS

[Anonymous No.7012811]

>>7012784
>Just because someone who is vision impaired can't take it off when we go indoors doesn't mean the ones who aren't don't have the right to wear things they like.
Sure, they can do whatever the fuck they want. It doesn't change the fact that wearing glasses without lenses makes you look like an ass.

[Anonymous No.7012813]

>>7012811
Yeah, at least put them lenses...

[Anonymous No.7012817]

>>7012762
Ah that's true actually. I once went for frameless glasses in an effort to look less bad (oh god it DID NOT work) and getting big black frames a few years later was amazing because I could actually see stuff to the side.

[Anonymous No.7012819]

>>7012817
Hahaha, yeah i know how you feel, but in the end i prefer the frameless glasses, is kind of annoying cause i can't see what i have around me (is really hard to cheat in exams :P )

[⌠†౿ ʳ⌡ No.7012864]

>>7012811
>3D without lenses
yeah, I guess that is a really douchey look, but if its just clear lenses for face protection and you dislike seeing in a tint, its fine.
>>7012807
>only tells her friend
shes probably just lonely and wants a conversation starter
>>7012817
yeah, bigger glasses clearly do improve eyesight a lot. my glasses still don't give me any peripheral vision, though.
>tfw cant see someone waving to me 2 feet to the side

[Anonymous No.7012962]

>>7012762
>>7012750
but what if your eyes are relatively high compared to your brow ridge and thick frames cover a good chunk of your forward view

or your head is so big that off the shelf ones will not fit

[Anonymous No.7012979]

>>7012774
I dont mind hipster cosplays as long as they're done well/humorous...but this shit?

She threw on some glasses.
Not to mention its closet cosplay, save for the atrociously made top........kill it.

[Anonymous No.7013575]

>>6995933
You're on /cgl/, what the fuck do you expect?

[Anonymous No.7013592]

>>7012864
Wearing any glasses frames without lenses looks stupid. It's like wearing a fake hearing aid or a fake cast as a fashion statement. You look like an ass.

[Anonymous No.7013782]

>>6998934
I just heard Athens is the new Austin. And god, I hope so cause I don't need my rent to go up anymore. I could never survive in Portland either. I get cold if it's under 70F.

[Anonymous No.7013808]

Cosplay is a hobby that appeals solely to hipsters.

Are you trying to be a double hipsters, a hipster too hipster for hipsters?

[Anonymous No.7013817]

>>6995933
Shut up, you pedophile welfare queen