Human beings are strange. We're capable of creating all kinds of smart technology, such as smart glasses, sending billionaires into space, and developing vaccines to fight deadly viruses. We can't get those plastic numerical party glasses right on New Year's Eve because we haven't done it in more than a decade.
I ranked New Year's Eve glasses based on how dumb they looked in a decade. The glasses for 2010 looked the best because they featured two aesthetically pleasing zeros and easily turned the number one into a lens. The glasses for 2020 looked worse than before.
You would think that creators would have taken advantage of 2020's two zeros, but they had to make things complicated. Some 2020 glasses were acceptable, but others were not.
There were two zeros there. A screen shot of P&F and AMAZON.
The creators of novelty glasses dropped the ball again. Here are some of the frames that have an extra zero added as a lens, 2s placed on foreheads, and/or eyeholes so tiny you can barely see out of them.
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The insanity could be ended by mandating the manufacture of a single design each year. We should have stopped with these in 2021.
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The glasses didn't always look pathetic. It slapped when celebratory eyewear was first conceived in 1991. Richard Sclafani and Peter Cicero were the inventors of the 9 holes. They used first and second zeros as lens when 2000 arrived.
Sclafani and Cicero started getting serious competition in 2000 as reported by Mel Magazine. The two friends decided to abandon their glasses-making endeavor because of the rip-off designs that started popping up around the world. Sclafani felt that the designs would prove too challenging beyond 2010 because of the heavy competition.
The art of designing glasses isn't as simple as it used to be, but we messed up in 2020 and other straightforward years. Our New Year's Eve eyewear have been so bad over the past few years, if Sclafani and Cicero had still been running the show. I would like to think not.
The novelty glasses posers of the world just can't seem to see that the pair had the original vision.
It is supposed to be a year of no expectations. We don't expect an end to the billionaires or the pandemic any time soon. We can at least control the small thing of building back a better set of glasses.
