Women's Sunglasses

Halfway through the third pair, and the women's sunglasses you were certain about from the photograph are already back on the stand. Frame shape is the one thing a photograph will not settle for you. A pair that looks severe on a stand can be exactly right on. A pair that looked obvious can sit wrong the second it reaches a face. Everything else about a pair of sunglasses, the lens, the colour, the price, comes a distant second to that.

Women's Sunglasses

Sunglass Frames and Proportion

Proportion settles more about a pair of women's sunglasses than taste does. A softer frame takes the edge off a strong line, and a squarer one gives a face a definite border to sit inside. Go larger and the arithmetic of everything nearby changes with it, the fringe, the earrings, how much of the rest of you anyone actually sees. None of that can be worked out from an image, because an image has no face in it. The decision waits for a mirror, and nothing looked at beforehand shortens it.

Sunglasses Worn With Caps and Beanies

The other thing a frame has to get along with is whatever is already on your head. Sunglasses and a cap take up the same few inches, so a heavy frame under a heavy brim is two strong decisions stacked on each other, and one of them has to give way. A finer frame goes under anything. Women's caps and beanies sits alongside for that reason, and women's accessories holds the rest of the small things a summer asks for. A pair that works with a cap on and with a cap off is the pair that stays in the car door all summer instead of coming in and out of the house.