Sunglasses Pictures!

[nuranar]

Glamorous, these are not. I really should have tried for more of a 40s hair silhouette... Anyway, here they are.

Vintage on the left, Ye Target on the right.


I am now struck by the fact that they ARE still bigger than the vintage lenses. However, this is as they should be. Note how in the picture on the left, the arm on the vintage glasses splay outward to fit over my ears, whereas the arms on the Target glasses can go straight back.  This, dear reader, is called Fit. Vintage glasses do not fit my face well. They're useable, but they do not truly fit. It's like wearing a hat that's a half-size too small: it "perches" a wee bit higher or a wee bit further back than ideal.  In the interests of saving a good $30, hours of search time, weeks without sunglasses, and having a fun color, I don't mind a small compromise in the size of the lenses.

Perfect? No. But still really darned good.

Comments

[butterbobbin.livejournal.com]

I agree, the Target ones are a much better fit. :-)

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's reassuring! I'm so used to the vintage ones, although they feel so weird, that these are almost making me nervous. :p

[guen-the-cat.livejournal.com]

yeah, the Target ones look better on your face. Though, I have a narrow face and have a hard time finding glasses and sun glasses that aren't too big, so I wonder if the Target ones will be too big for me. Ah well, I'll try 'em out anyways. Better to be a wee bit big than nothing at all, right?

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

I think they're at least worth a shot, yes! They sure don't look oversized in the store, and the wayfarers definitely weren't as big as what I remember even from years ago. My face is honestly not THAT wide - it's just the overall look. It's wide in comparison to a lot of vintage sunglasses. When I first started researching vintage glasses and sunglasses years ago it was common knowledge that they were under-sized by most modern standards.

[fancyfrocks.livejournal.com]

I like both of them!!
Btw, jitteringbug and I found very vintage looking glasses in the garment district for $5. If we go when you're here we'll stop by that place :)

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Yay! Oh, I'm totally in for going. BTW, didn't you mention going to a park or something in Regency?

[suededsilk.livejournal.com]

The Target ones do look like they fit your face better, now that I see them. (They're also rounder, too; the vintage lenses look more like an aviator style than the *round* 30s-40s lenses.)

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

It's funny - all the vintage ones I've had were shaped like that. But when I shared pics of the first pair on the FL years ago there were comments even then about the unusual triangular shape. The *really* weird thing about this pair is that they don't match each other. I can understand the frames warping over time, but the lenses don't even match each other!