There is slow but subtle paradigm shift happening among the female of the present generation, being led by the new generation of films stars of the likes of DeepikaPadukone and SonakshiSinha who do not have any hesitation to appear in the public sporting a pair of spectacles. A message is being given out that wearing spectacle is no more “ plain Jane” look, but it is a fashion statement.
It all started with DeepikaPadukone in the recent times, who carried it on with a rare sense of flourish and chutzpah in YE JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI and made it a vital fashion accessory. However, in the recent times, if one were to change the goal post and take the reference point to a decade ago, it was PreityZinta who carried it with aplomb and lots of glamour in KAL HO NA HO and perhaps could take the credit for being the diva who set the tone for making pair of spectacles a fashion statement.
Other leading lady who has been rather casual about appearing in a pair of spectacles is Sonam Kapoor who sports the pair of spectacles with quite panache. One does not know whether the confidence to sport the pair of spectacles has emanated from the fact that Big B started sporting it in a Big way, but it would not be too hyperbolic to underline that it was Big B who became the real endorser of a pair of spectacles in a public through the scores of characters that he portrayed, and its another manifestation would be seen in SATYAGRAHA.
One only hopes that 2013 would emerge as the year when spectacles would indeed emerge as a fashion statement and the notion for the female of the kind who wear it as being christened – behenjee types- would become a thing of the past.
By NalinRai
