Sunglasses

[Moos]

As promised. Fashion is not discussed nearly enough on this forum.

So, what sun bins are we buying this year? I saw someone in a pair of oversized mirrored aviator shades this lunchtime and nearly expired on the spot. Surely they can't be back in fashion again?

[Asset]

never really gone out but only a few people can make them look good IMHO

[Brendan]

Moos, Moos, Moos, the oversized mirrored aviators were last year, even the year before and before that. This year?s style in ironic* glasses are these babies:

http://www.easybizchina.com/picture/product/200803%5C2008324_131510_Sunglasses.JPG

*The irony being that most of those wearing them don?t get the irony.

[bigbadwolf]

What about these?

http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/2_geordilaforge2367.jpg

[Moos]

Well, I'm glad to hear it, I wouldn't want to be wearing last year's oversized ridiculous ironic glasses.

Our cactus at work has a pair of the ones you show above, but in red. Will it suffice to have a marvellously fashion-forward pot plant?

[Moos]

==Little Known Geeky Star Trek Fact Alert==

That actually was a hairband, which someone appropriated for the costume.

[bigbadwolf]

Do you mean to tell me that he couldn't actually see and it was all fake? That's like saying a Vulcan death grip wasn't real.

==Little known geeky star trek fact alert==

There was actually one starfleet phaser that actually worked. It was secretly developed by Gene Roddenberry to stop William Shatner from releaseing any more music.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Anything that protects my eyes well, don't give a damn about what anybody thinks about my appearance whatsoever.

[Moos]

Oh Shu, but that's half the fun. It's like wearing one pair of shoes and a black suit for the whole of your life. Practical and inexpensive - yes. Fun? No.

[Brendan]

I'm cool me so I already have a pair of this year's stupid sunglasses. I've even gone the whole hock and got ones with white frames.

The irony being that I probably won?t wear them as no matter what sunglasses I buy I always hate them and end up wearing a trusty pair of Arnettes.

[mockney piers]

I am cursed with Malapollonialvitritis and thus look terrible in all shades.

Usually buy Oakleys (the UK HQ is in Letchworth for some reason), which I think look great....except on me, I look like a twonk.

[Ted Max]

Hi Brendan.

[Moos]

I'm not cool, so I just wear Audrey Hepburn style large bins and hope for the best.

[Brendan]

Picture similar but a little too old to pull it off and getting it all slightly wrong and you've got it on the head.

Ted...

[BigPhil]

original ray-ban wayfarers are a must even if the missis thinks i look a plonker in them.

I tell her the alternative is ray-ban aviators just like tom cruise in Top gun ( think the volley ball scene but fat old rugby body with moobs and pot gut) the sunglasses make all the difference.... lol

[Strawbs]

Jaws has a pair of mirrored aviators and I think they look wickard.. I hope that particular fashion stays around for a while.. Me I have a gorgeous pair of chanels that I get out each year for summer, I dont think I will be buying a different pair, sadly aviators make me look like an idiot..

[jaybee82]

Well I dont know about all of you but for me these will ALWAYS be in fashion.

http://www.kopes.com/novelties/spyglasses.htm

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Boring maybe, but its less hassle to spend a couple of hundred quid on shades with high quality glass, than have to go through the hassle of choosing something new each year, guess I prefer function over style, and value my eyesight more than looking sexy...But each to his/her own.

What I really hate are women switching from spectacles to contact lenses! Fetish, moi?

[bignumber5]

At ?175 to put a prescription into wrap-around, polarised snow-boarding bins, that'll be keeping the old frames, then: The inevitable fate of the short of sight, cash and contact-lense tolerance.

[charliecharlie]

no no no folks... not on trend at all.... this year's key item is the sunglass (yes they do talk in this stilly way in the trade) but if you want to be spot on for this season's looks, hot off the catwalk, then you need to do your research and you need to know exactly where to get the right info!!!!

so here are the hot tips from your resident ED design forecaster, Charliecharlie

one of the key looks for Spring/Summer/09is out sized grey

paris was all super sized in bright colours (not to everyone's tastes!)

here are a few of the trade web site to keep up to the minute with news off the catwalks

coolhunting.com, style.com and handbag.com are all you need to keep up with fashion

(if you must!!! but I suggest you don't even try... develop your own style and enjoy being yourself)

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/03/super_spring_su.php

http://www.handbag.com/fashion/high-street-hot-100-spring-summer-2009-accessories-cos-sunglasses/gallery

http://www.style.com/stylefile/2008/10/speed-car-crashes-and-really-big-sunglasses/

love yourself East Dulwich, and bring on the sunshine

[bignumber5]

Sorry to high-jack a thread briefly, but charliecharlie - is it always strictly necessary to clog every thread with pictures? The joke, such as it was, was clear after the first picture. Old sunnies. Get it. But please can you stop loading threads with arbitrary images?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I lost my raybans about 20 years ago on Southend beach. If anyone is paddling there this summer and finds them, I would love them back.

Am currently sporting a pair of sunglasses bought on Rye Lane about six years ago for a fiver.

[Michael Palaeologus]

I rather enjoyed seeing the sunglasses that I wont be wearing this season.

[charliecharlie]

Wrong and wrong again Bignumber5.....

not a joke about 'old sunnies' as you call them, see web link below

not arbitrary images, both exactly and precisely related to the topic...

as the thread is about sunglasses for this summer, how can 2 images of sunglasses for summer 2009 not be relevant??????

http://www.handbag.com/fashion/high-street-hot-100-spring-summer-2009-accessories-cos-sunglasses/gallery [quote name=The joke' date=' such

> as it was, was clear after the first picture. Old

> sunnies. Get it. But please can you stop loading

> threads with arbitrary images?

]

a tad out of touch maybe?????

[RosieH]

On sunglasses, as with hairstyles, I am firmly of the belief that you should sport something that makes you look good, not necessarily something that makes you look fashionable. If it does both, bonus.

Raybans look great on some people, on others (especially in red or white - sorry Brendan) they will make you look a right t1t. Ditto aviators.

I favour aviators, but may yet be disabused of the notion that they suit me. Have also just acquired some mighty purty art-deco stylee Temperley ones that, being not particularly of any season, I should be able to wear next year and the one after, too - making them a bargain.

edited as am a f**kwit and can't type today