The Development Of Sun Glasses Being Symbol Of Fashion

The glasses have been necessary items for fashionable people in summer, but the evolutionary history of them are widely divided. It is nature that every country wants to be the cradle of sunglasses which are very popular now. But there is only one. Where is it?

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.

A believable saying is that the modern sunglass was invented by Europeans. 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 became crazy about this style of sunglasses. So the eyeglasses online became popular among common people. The flyer sunglasses have become the forever classics.

In 1950s, Elvis Aron Presley’s music was conquering 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. When it came to 1960s, the Beatles was leading a vigorous music culture movement which swept the whole world and meanwhile completely buried Elvis Aron Presley’s dynasty.

The small round glasses with thin metal frame which were usually worn by John Lennon and sunglasses in the same style also affected the trend of sunglasses appearance in that age. Glasses were becoming more and more round, plump, and their designs were more and more courageous.

While in 1970s, the exterior of glasses developed back to the angular style little by little. 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 weared such a pair of glasses in those days.

When it came to 1980s, it was the time for the square frame eyeglasses with obvious coners. The designer Karl Lagerfeld who took over Chanel in 1983 and always weared such a pair of slightly squared dark glasses, was a representative. His image with the sunglasses had been applied to the brand design. The 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 eyewear inlaid and coupled with gold, raw wood or gems, leather, can all be a fashion.