Sunglasses are a topic of debate these days – has their function diminished from reducing the light penetrating the eye, to blunt and just fashion statement?
The first ever recorded usage of sunglasses, ironic compared to their title, were worn by the Chinese in the 13th Century. The smoke coloured quarts lenses were worn in court as to conceal any eye expressions of those deciding the fate of a man below. Like those times, today sunglasses are worn in the fashioner’s world to solidify a positive perception of judgement experienced by both the wearer, and the viewer glancing from across the sidewalk.
Sunglasses are a finishing touch to anyone’s summer attire. Without fashion, one is a mere blank canvas, without sunglasses, one is a painted canvas but lacking the signature required to illustrate completion and ownership of one’s work.
Those who wear designer sunglasses can give the impression of wealth and to some extent materialism. Whereas those who wear the sleek, slimline and edgy sunglasses with red reflective lenses show off their ‘masculinity’ and seek keen attention with one arm hanging out the window as they cruise by in their expensive transport.
The expressive look of retro hippy style or keen adverse in displaying a sexual orientation will be found with multicoloured round frog eyes glasses sitting sceptically between the nose and the upper brow. Those seen holding their heads high gliding through the streets are often sporting the sophisticated look of aviators. Those sunglasses originally created to aid pilots in World War II have since boomed into a fashion icon throughout the decades with those wearing them seeking an almost sacramental approach to fashion.
Then come the masked faces of avoidance, the sunglasses leaving more lens than skin and an impossibility to read facial expressions. The hidden faces scream loss of identity and a hurt and hiding personality. The awkward uncomfortable look that comes with these large goggles fits with the thought of them overbalancing and falling, leaving the sunglasses with a magnetic attraction to the floor below.
Sunglasses give an immediate attractive or repulsive portrayal of not only someone’s fashion sense, but also their self confidence. So next time you slide on your identity, are you showing yourself or hiding in the dark shades of dignity?
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