If you put them on your head they get tangled in your hair and the arms get stretched and then they are loose. If you get the string things they are hanging down and can get damaged. The idea is to get small frames and keep them on all the time and then put them on the edge of your nose peer over them when not reading. Also ,people who need specs for reading are a certain age when they could not care less (if they ever did) if people think they look stupid. What's the problem KK? I wish people would distinguish between a BRAKE (on a car) and a BREAK (in the sun or of a bone) When I read 'put your breaks on..' for example, I think they have misspelled 'breeks'