This Troper has three pairs of gogles for day wear: mini, motorcycle, and steampunk. They "do nothing" but they look great with any outfit!

{{Coximind}}: I have a pair of safety glasses I wear at home.

This troper wears glasses, but the lenses on them don't do anything.

This troper has a friend who occaisionally wears Buddy Holly glasses because they look cool. Oh yeah, and they don't even have lenses.

This troper had an idea for R&D goggles in ''{{Paranoia}}'', which plays with this - they work fine at whatever it is they do (currently planned to be night vision, if he can get a group together), unless they're worn by a mutant. And in ''Paranoia'', everyone's a mutant.

So of course, complaining to the tech department is going to result in getting executed for treason... genius. Pure genius. I applaud your GMing skills. On the other hand, someone's bound to try to get round it by becoming a registered mutant

This troper is friends with a girl who wears goggles like a headband...just because she can. I find that extremely awesome.

That. Is. AWESOME.

Hey, I used to do that, too!

This troper loved Digimon when she was a kid, and had wondered how to find some non-swimmimg goggles to wear, just for the hell of it. Anyone know where to find em?

Same place I got my bowler from.. http://www.badgersden.com/ Reasonable prices too.

This troper found a pair at Menards that were sunglasses and goggles (called 'em sungoggles). I wore them like the above troper, but they had utility on a bright day! (Until they broke...)

This troper found a pair of welding goggles at his local welding shop and wears them like a headband like the above two tropers. He warns you, however, that if you do this, don't wear them too tight; he once wore them far too tight for far too long and the indentation remained for something like three days.

This troper once wore sunglasses over ordinary glasses. One friend commented on their uselessness since their wearer was about to attend a presentation in a dark room. After explaining that the dark room had blacklights, she then said "why would you go to such a pointless presentation? UV lights are bad for your eyes" and subsequently facepalmed upon remembering the function of sunglasses.

This troper cannot, for the life of him, figure out the purpose of fingerless gloves. That said, he still wants a pair.

This troper is in a wheelchair and needs the fingerless gloves to keep her hands from getting too calloused from hours of going from point A to point B. They're so much more convenient (except in the dead of winter) than regular gloves.

This troper likes to save on bills (and energy) by turning the heat lower during winter and just wearing more clothes indoors. Fingerless gloves keeps his hands sufficiently warm, while allowing a more natural feel while typing.

This troper plays a woodwind instrument in marching band. We need fingerless gloves in order to properly close the holes in the keys, or in some cases to hold onto the instrument.

This troper....just likes the look and feel of a good pair of leather driving gloves. They make him feel badass.

This troper is a mountain biker. His hands get numb and start to hurt very quickly without the extra padding that gloves provide, except dexterity is necessary for the gears and brakes... Fingerless gloves!

This troper does a lot of weight lifting and fingerless gloves protects against blisters.

This troper reads a lot. You can't turn the pages properly with gloves on, and you can't hold a book if your hands are numb. Plus they look cool (although the 6cm-wide strap across the back of each does nothing, since they were made ''exactly'' too long to adjust the size by closing them and and just makes them look more gauntlet-y). Also subverted, since if he's wearing a {{hachimaki}}, it's guaranteed to be tying his hair in place at the back, and has most likely been adapted for comfortable use as a blindfold/sleep mask, breath dust guard, or both.

This troper has a backpack he's recently started carrying around, in order to be {{Crazy Prepared}}. One of the items in it is welding goggles. They serve absolutely no purpose besides, theoretically, overly awesome sunglasses.

Heavily subverted with this troper. She rides a scooterbike, and her goggles really help her when some big 18-wheeler farts exhaust or throws dust in her face.

This troper has a friend who once wore a pair of what looked to be ''welding goggles'' to a quiz bowl match. Why? Because they looked ''awesome''. (And intimidation is a big part of the meta-game too.)

This troper was given a briefcase/bookbag/laptop carrier that has way more pouches than he knows what to do with. There are 14 different compartments, and about half of them are completely unused. It also happens to feature purely aesthetic belts as part of its "style". Come to think of it, a pouch overload has happened to this troper several times before, with backpacks, luggage, ''wallets''...

This troper said this line at a con he attended as a responce to some peopel selling steampunk-style goggles that, indeed, did nothing (they weren't even see-through). They looked wicked tho and he would've bought a pair had he not just used his money on an authentic army officer's peaked cap.

{{Subverted}}, {{This Troper}}'s aviator goggles double as sunglasses, but she avoids wearing them in public because she does not want to be started at.

ThisTroper really likes goggles. (As well as scarves and pins, but that's besides the point.) She doesn't have a pair, but would totally wear them all the time despite the fact that they'd have no purpose. (She has done the same for scarves and pins though, like wearing a scarf when it isn't cold, and... Well, really, pins don't do anything anyway.)

They do if you're dead...

ThisTroper has a pair of welding goggles as well as a full-face welding mask, both fully functional. What does he use them for? To keep the smoke out of his eyes when he's barbecuing.

Averted with this troper when he was on the swim team. His goggles were prescription and he would often where them both in and out of the water instead of changing to glasses. On the one time he lost his glasses, he wore his goggles for the day and looked pretty dorky doing that.

Played through and through. This troper doesn't believe there is such a thing as goggles that actually ''keep'' the damn water out of your eyes so you can dive for pennies in a swimming pool. (Which is hard to do when you ''can't see because your eyes are closed and the chlorine hurts!''

That's why I wear a scuba mask while doing that (they usually work well).

When I was small, I would keep my eyes open underwater anyway. I got used to the cholorine, and I could still see, it was just fuzzy. Eventually though, the chlorine started making my eyes foggy for almost an hour after I got out of the pool, so I switched to leaky goggles. No lasting eye damage to report, my eye problems are from staring at a computer screen all day.

This troper wears googles on her head (as a headband) frequently. To pretty much everywhere. She has two pairs, one yellow and one orange. (Which she found in a tourist shop at Myrtle Beach. And they aren't swimming goggles, either)

{{Subverted}} like a similar Troper above. This Troper has a pair of goggles that also double as sunglasses purchased at her parents' insistence at an anime/gaming/general fandom convention. Their reasoning: they went well with her standard punk appearance and were practically necessary for the aviator cap they were also getting her because the entire family was apparently getting a hat. (A lot of people asked her what character she was cosplaying that entire weekend...) She wears them all the time (so long as she can find them.) Not only has it become one of her signature accessories (the other being her headphones around her neck/on her head), the Drama teacher at her school has frequently referred to her as Amelia (as in ''Amelia Earhart'') whenever they pass each other in the halls.

This troper wears headphones above his ears due to good hearing and really not liking the feeling on his ears. He can hear it just fine through conduction. Ironically the only time he wears them properly they're for noise cancellation.

I do the same with headsets, mostly because my glasses+headset was not comfortable.

Beta Maxis here (really need to make a page, I contribute semi-often). I got a joke pair of glasses WAY the hell long ago that were sunglasses shades, pink with yellow and blue dots all over the place with black visors, for no other reason than they looked ridiculous. Still have them somewhere.

This troper quoted it in Chemistry when we first got our goggles. It was entertaining.

Subverted by this troper, as her goggles are a vital part of her riding gear when she's out on her motorcycle and they double as welding goggles when she's at work, but also played straight when she wears them every other day of the year, too.

A fanfiction reviewer mentioned to me that she was given goggles before gym class. She said she got excited at the chance to feel like a certain anime character...only to deflate the moment it was apparent her head was so small it ended up hanging around her neck.

This troper wears goggles on his forehead for absolutely no reason, though they're actually part of a Reno cosplay he's working on, but he still wears them in everyady life. Though they ''do'' do something-- leave red marks on his forehead (hur hur). Combined with sunglasses and big chunky headphones, people sometimes remark that they doubt if he has skin on his face for all he covers it up.

My ex girlfriend had a pair of safety goggles she stole from Chemistry class once on a random impulse. She kept them for the heck of it, and this inevitably developed into a RunningGag. Whenever someone in our group of friends said or did something particularly sickeningly sweet or squicky, she would pull out the goggles to protect her eyes before looking at them again. More often than not, she would say, "Nope. Still burning my eyes. AAAAAAGH!" And now you know why I loved her.

This troper wanted a pair, but was temporarily way-laid by the fact that he had no CoolHat cool enough to do them justice. He then decided on a different pair anyway, to go with his SteamPunk gloves.

I bought my beloved pair of steampunk goggles at an anime convention a year ago, and I wear them all the time. I was under the impression that they had no real purpose...but then one day, I was sitting outside for lunch at school, and it was really sunny. Turns out those goggles on my forehead are actually functional sunglasses, plus they make my eyes look all round and mirrored and crazy. ''Awesome.''

I usually wear a belt that do absolutely nothing to keep my trousers were they are, simply because it's handmade (by me), and if I do say so myself; it looks awesome.

This Troper ({{Zloke}}) Has a pair of goggles that were made from welding goggles. But 1. I don't have a cool hat yet, 2. I already need glasses, and 3. they actually do something (they have a light) and I could just get prescription lenses for them so I can see when I use them.

Steampunk. That is all.

This troper has a goggle fetish, so the goggles definitely do something for him.

This troper usually carries a fully filled water bottle but he almost never drinks from it. When ever he's thirsty he finds a nearby fountain, vending machine or fast food place. I've been lampshaded about this my excuse is that it's my emergency water. The bottle now has water that is two weeks old and stuff inside it eww.

This Troper has a pair of steampunk-ish goggles that he wears on his hat for additional non-functionality.

This Troper loves all aspects of steampunk, fashion included. She received a pair of welding goggles for Christmas and wears them as a headband or around her neck for the aesthetic value, despite being a writer rather than a mechanic. They DO have tinted lenses, and so may gain some functionality when summer rolls around.

This troper (due to stupid federal regulations) is forced to have goggles on his fire helmet, despite the fact that a) Whenever he's inside a burning building he has a full facemask on for air supply. b)They fog up instantly when used. and c)When crawling through small spaces they get caught on shit. Absolutely pointless and useless

Averted for this troper. I wear sunglasses regularly, even in weather that wouldn't really warrant them for anyone else, because a side effect of my Asperger's Syndrome is that I'm oversensitive to light, and tend to find being in a place lit by direct sunlight extremely painful.

I'm gonna wear sunglasses for my PaperThinDisguise, but they don't do anything.

Just because they look cool (and remind me of my once happy childhood) this troper tried to wear swimming goggles on his head, however the elastic snapped on each pair I've ever gotten. Then I found out it represents immaturity and child-like-ness and I wanted to wear them even more.

Somehow, wearing lenses of any kind diminishes my ability to see. It's different when wearing glasses to correct astigmatism vs wearing non-correcting safety goggles just to protect the orbs. Normal fencing masks render me completely blind, where bandanas mildly interfere with my vision, despite their non-interference with my physical eyes.

This troper has a pair of steampunk goggles from Anime Boston. They do nothing, they only fit well on my head over a hat because I'm too lazy to adjust the strap, and I can't wear them over my eyes anyway because I need my glasses for everything and I don't have contacts. But they look cool.]

This troper has a pair that had two sets of lenses: one regular and one tinted like sunglasses. She lost the regular lenses, though, so all they can do is be sunglasses. Actually, she should probably try and look for the regular lenses.

This Troperette is trying to save up $$$ so she can buy her guy some goggles for their 1-year anniversary. Goggles SO do stuff, they make loved ones happy.