Why people love to hate tiny sunglasses

All fashion trends are scams, but every so often, one bubbles up in the collective consciousness and forces us all to be mad at it at the same time. Right now it's tiny sunglasses, those diminutive, barely eyeball-size versions that don't seem to perform their stated function of providing shade very well at all.

They're the sort worn by the likes of Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Bella and Gigi Hadid, and various other children of famous people (Zoe Kravitz, Kaia Gerber, Hailey Baldwin), as well as Instagram influencers whose names you might not know but whose aesthetic mimics those of the ones you do.

But these shades' lack of practicality isn't why we're mad at them.

Because, to be fair, everything fashionable is less practical than the alternative, which is either a) being fully naked when it's hot, b) wearing utility jumpsuits with a million pockets when it's medium, or c) wearing the skin of an enormous furry animal when it's cold. That clothes are not always functional is hardly controversial. Yet tiny sunglasses are.

This summer, two bona fide famouses echoed the opinions many others had already expressed over drinks or online during the past year, which is that these things are bad.

"I think we will regret this tiny sunglasses look," tweeted Mindy Kaling; Anne Hathaway then took a screenshot and Instagrammed it in agreement.