Remember the '80s? Okay, maybe some of you don't, but it was not, shall we say, the best of times from a sartorial standpoint, several steps down the fashion ladder, IMO, from the previous decade. You can always tell when you're seeing an '80s show on MeTV by a) the gigantic hairdos, and b) the glasses that looked like they might weigh several pounds... which they did. The Sims 2 glasses are mostly all those wimpy variety favored during the 1990s and early 2000s... for obvious reasons. I hate them. Yeah, some folks have created Buddy Holly-type specs, some Lennon, and even some weird 17th-Century ones that are hinged in the middle of the nosepiece! But I haven't really seen the big, clunky ones like Harry Caray wore (okay, Harry's were a little off the deep end). Anyone have suggestions? As if I didn't have enough problems with my ungodly number of downloads, neighborhoods, blah blah blah... Some photos for visual reference:
Miss Wormwood (C&H)

My aunt's friend Janet

Harry Caray

Grandma

The "scientist" glasses, or therapist, or whatever he's called... those are close in terms of weight, but remember he's meant to look odd, and so are his specs.

And speaking of hairdos, how come Maxis never caught onto the fact that older ladies tend to keep their hair shorter, like Ms. Wormwood's or Grandma's here? It's not good enough to just do gray recolors of the adult women's hairstyles. I have serious issues with a good percentage of the hairstyles floating around out there, both Maxis-made and CC. I mean, I get it - if you're the kind of person who's into creating hairdos, you're probably going to go for the super outlandish, Kool-Aid colored kind of creation, preferably with lots of animation. But come on - think of the plain folk once in a while, ya know? Alright, enough of my kvetching.

I like Stonetower's Prida Eyeglasses:
https://modthesims.info/d/253246
Lots of recolours that make them clunkier on MTS:
https://modthesims.info/d/466872
https://modthesims.info/d/442350
https://modthesims.info/d/285353
However, Stonetower's original mesh flashes blue, Selzisims fixed this mesh but I can't find the download on their site. You can get it here though:
https://simsinfluence.wordpress.com...asses-rebinned/
So use that mesh instead. If anyone knows of Selzi's download link, please let me know! Edit: Here and here!

I don't mind those first ones. But to me, they look very modern. I need some that great-aunt Ethel would've worn when she went over to Harriet's house to play canasta with the girls, back during the Reagan administration. Sort of the Sophia Petrillo look, or if you prefer, the Madea.

Here's another example, modeled by the Mad Bull on Rumpole.

I wasn't sure whether to raise this thread from the grave, or start a new one, but as this is the same topic...

Looking for some more of the above, I stumbled (or should that be tumbld?) onto the pixelated-finds tumblr, about some glasses, a great number of them, by someone called lunacress. Tumblr Link Here Supposedly, they all came with meshes and recolors. But you go to "keep reading" and the post has vanished. Is anyone familiar with these, and possibly knows where to find them? Some of them look pretty good.


P.S. Along with clunky Madea-type glasses, I'm also seeking the dark-plastic aviator-shaped specs from the 1980s (see additional photos). I've found ones that were sunglasses, but none that are clear.

You could check Lunacress's glasses SFS folder.

Thanks, I'll check those out!