“I always get compliments from people around my age or in the gen Z category,” says De’Siree Fairley, a 28-year-old elementary school teacher from Virginia. “I believe they admire aesthetics like dark academia and cottagecore, and glasses chains add to that whimsy.”
Fairley recently purchased some ornate, gold-beaded glasses chains because she wanted to look like “a quirky librarian who knows about ancient tomes”. She wasn’t expecting the people who most appreciate her look to be her students.
