The Interesting History Of Sunglass Being An Important Part Of Fashion
The optical have been the must-have articles for fashion guys in summer. As to the invention of sunglasses, there are many different versions. It is easy to understand that all of the countries want to be the cradleland of the sunglass now that it is so popular now. But there can be only one mother country, and which can it be?
Now, there are at least three countries claiming that they invented eyeglasses firstly. 500 years ago, some Spanish missionaries mentioned in their books that they brought glasses back from China, but it is a pity that there is no tangible object as a proof. Another version goes like that: 500 year ago, Eskimo used a kind of goggles that were made of wood. Actually, there were two seams on a long plank, which surely can’t be viewed as sunglasses.
It is convincible that modern sunglasses were invented by European. The image of Douglas MacArthur, the American General of the Air Force, with a corncob pipe in his mouth and a pair of AO black sunglasses, has been deeply rooted in people’s heart. At the same time, more and more hollywood stars have begun to be fond of wearing this kind of dark glasses. So the sunglasses became popular among common people. The flyer sunglasses have become the forever classics.
In the 1950s, Elvis Aron Presley’s music was spreading all over the world. His iconic ducktail hair style, as well as his dressing up of wearing sunglasses in goose egg style with a piece of downward-pointing triangle iron, was being imitated by a crowd of young people. In 1960s, a vigorous movement of music culture led by the Beatles swept the entire world, and at the same time buried the Presley Dynasty completely.
The small-bois iron thin-spectacle-frame round glasses often resting on John Lennon’s nose and the dark glasses of the same style also influenced the exterior trend of all dark glasses at that time. Eyeglasses were becoming rounder and rounder, plumper and plumper; their design also became more and more courageous.
In 1970s, the outlook of sunglasses gradually turned to be angled. Plastic sunglasses with slick broadside and round corners were more and more popular. The lenses came with gradual changing colors as well. The famous fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent was wearing a pair of this kind of eyeglasses at that time.
Till 1980s, the rectangle style of clear edges and corners developed to its peak. The designer Karl Lagerfeld who took over Chanel in 1983 and always weared such a pair of slightly squared dark glasses, was a representative. The image of his wearing dark glasses had early been applied to brand designing, and Karl Lagerfeld, Teddy Bear and Karl Lagerfeld Bag were the best examples.
In 1990s, the trend of fashion became more and more diversified day by day, not only the glasses style of prolate and evolution color lens, but also goggles and ski goggles have ever been the most popular fashionable accessories. And the old borderless sunglasses are no longer grandparents’ monopoly. All kinds of borderless reading glasses inlaid and coupled with gold, raw wood or gems, leather, can all be a fashion.