Sunglasses have always been the epitome of cool, a sharp pair of shades instantly imbues the wearer with an of sophisticated, effortless style while of course performing the all important task of shielding your eyes from the sun. Like all others items of clothing and accessories, glasses and sunglasses go through trends, for example, many youths holidaying in the past three or so years wouldn’t have been seen dead without hiding their peepers behind some variation of the aviator glasses, even within the avaitor sub catagory there are different trends developing, coloured frames are in at the moment for example.
It is only recently that glasses and sunglasses have filtered into the clubbing scene. We have witness rappers wearing sunglasses indoors in their videos and the idea has been widely ridiculed, but the trend for doing this is beginning to become accepted in clubs, mainly the more upmarket venues. Glasses themselves have also see a renaissance in recent years, the rapper Kanye West popularized ‘shutter shades’, plastic glasses with horizontal ‘shutters’ in place of the lenses. These perform absolutely no functuion aside from looking fashionable but have recently been replaced in the ‘cool stakes’ by a more traditional form o spectacle.
It is funny how fashions ebb and flow so randomly and with rapid pace, I say this because a type of glasses that are hugely popular at the moment are the school boy-type large, square shaped black rimed spectacle, the type you may have seen the class geek wearing in the 1970′s with a plaster wrapped around the bridge. These look like prescription glasses but have no lenses and are being worn by clubbers and fasionistas across the land. These first crept into the accessory box alongside the rising popularity of ‘skool disco’ nights but are now worn with regular outfits. Ironic that they used be such a ridicule form of eye-ware but that’s just the way fashion works!