Having worn spectacles since I was fourteen years old they are a "thing" with me. But Daniel's spectacles are a milky grey colour and most unflattering and, along with his previous horn-rimmed spectacles, the round shape is most unflattering and accentuates the bags under his eyes.
Totally agree with you, Jack. The more I look at those glasses the more my nose wrinkles. Hist specs were just fine until the infamous Prince School where they made him slick back his hair and changed his glasses to old-fashioned, unflattering, gig lamps!
Men shouldn't and tend to avoid wearing round glasses. - Except in Sweden where it's considered a patriotic duty. It's a nod to the headlights of classic Volvos.
If you see anything but a Volvo in Sweden you can rest assured it's a foreigner driving it.
Volvos have an acceleration like a main-battle tank, which is basically what it is! The risk of bumping into a suicidal elk is big in Sweden you know. (Some of them try to defect to Denmark, but that's another story.) But inside their Volvos the Jönssons feel safe, knowing they'll survive absolutely anything. Hence the Swedish expression: My Volvo is my castle.
Sweden is also the only place in the world where people dress up when they go for a drive in their Volvos.
The appropriate attire is the standard Swedish suit and tie, driving gloves, brown shoes, a soft hat and beforehand a pipe. Always placed in the left corner of the mouth, mind you!
All Swedish Volvos are in neutral or at least subdued colors. A say pang-red color would be considered un-Swedish.
And here we get back to Daniel's glasses. The frame of Swedish glasses are always in the same hue as the Volvo they are driving.
- In all fairness I should add that our family-cars for many years have been Volvos. But that is mainly in order to try and blend in when we go to Sweden.
We fail of course. Swedes can spot Danish drivers for miles! We are after all considered the latinos of Scandinavia by the Swedes.
so they stand out as well.
I so enjoy your humour filled posts about your fellow Scandinavians, Muhler. What would this thread be without your observations.
The German holidaymakers don't go nude on the campsites and beaches or anything, do they?
And of course a double-breasted blue suit 
no contest really
They do sell ties in other colors but blue and black in Sweden, but only in store with special permits and you need a health certificate from your doctor, lest you are overwhelmed by the colors, and a license from the police allowing you to wear such garments in public.
Ah Muhler, just when you think it can't get worse . . . it does! 
In light of the above, his shapeless brown suede shoes are positively chic!
from me. - He ought to get four, but he's Haakon, so him wearing pants, shoes, shirt and jacket at the same time is a plus.
from me.
Hmm, those awful trousers photograph differently in two different places. Inside light made them look like they are karitane coloured which is definitely not a good thing and outside they looked horrid but passable.
That picture really was a surprise! And just like you, Marg, my first thought was either a Swedish imposter or an alien. It's a pretty disturbing sight, which fortunately pass either when they drop from exhaustion or the sun goes down.
Well they wouldn't have any other coloured shoes except black . . . same goes for white hankies I guess.
You are quite right, ladies. 
from me.
