Oversized or NOT?

[MBslr]

Spring's just around the corner which means sunglass season is on its way! I would like to know what sunglass style you all are into! Are you the aviator type? The oversized type? The smallish squared lens type?

Which type are you? :cool:

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[juicybrat]

im the oversized type. =)

[JU!CYY]

I'm the somwhat large... but not oversize type =)
w. a little bling on the side.. nice bling not tacky ones =)
i'm planning to get something like this for the summer
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[Shopoholic18]

I'm the somwhat large... but not oversize type =)
w. a little bling on the side.. nice bling not tacky ones =)
i'm planning to get something like this for the summer
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Same here Ju!cy =)

[MBslr]

For me it's huuuuge oversized a la Nicole Ritchie all the way! :cool:

[aaronem]

I like bigger square ones, like Paris in the first pic

[Annie =)]

small squarish ones. my small nose can't hold those things up..and i look bugged eye.

[RichardWilinski]

Why do women love bug eye sunglasses?

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The bug eye sunglasses are the ONLY shades to be seen in this summer. So what's the attraction of looking like a giant fly?

There is currently a paradox that Western women are happy to show off their bodies while covering their faces. The gigantic sunglasses which swallow features under a weird frontal burqa are on every High Street. Why have women voluntarily turned themselves into cartoon bugs or diving instructors?

Lately, the glasses have gotten bigger as the faces have got smaller. I have seen ten-year-old girls who are nothing more than hair and face masks. What happened to those dainty, rose-tinted, round-rimmed glasses everyone was wearing until recently? I still have mine. But now I also have a colossal pair of shades.

It is rather like being inside a limo. I could be behaving like Pamela Anderson behind them and no one would ever know. The glossy magazines are full of the monstrous carbuncles. A model in a Chanel advertisement throws back her (mostly covered) head with carefree laughter. Oh, so she thinks her glasses are funny, does she?
A blonde wearing Yves Saint Laurent hangs her head, with the weight of her sunglasses or possibly in mourning. The Ralph Lauren model has her face covered in black and white super-shades and is carrying a string bag. Perhaps for collecting crustaceans from the seabed.

We are perfectly used to seeing models in crazy couture - lampshades on their heads, bustles from their backsides - without for a moment thinking that we have to copy them.

But super-sized glasses are being worn on real beaches this year by real women. TV presenter Anne Robinson puts her hand up when I ask if she is wearing the giant glasses.

Cookery writer Nigella Lawson has a modest pair and stresses that these were pre-fad. "I can't do ones that make one look bug-eyed," she says. "I have never been swayed by fashion and have stuck with my Jackie Os - even when they are, unfortunately, in vogue."

Who started the craze?
The question is, as ever, cause and symptoms: who started the super-sized craze and why? Fashion historians argue bitterly about the original perpetrator. Jodie Nellist, life stylist on Closer magazine, says Lionel Richie's stick-thin adopted daughter, Nicole, was the first to wear them.

"Because she's super skinny, they looked even bigger. It was ridiculous," she says. "Then Paris Hilton wore them. But Nicole was first."

What was Nicole's purpose? Was it some kind of protest? "She is in LA," says Nellist. "You always want to be different there. Then they started appearing on the catwalks."

Camilla Wright, the zeitgeist-conscious editor of Popbitch, the gossip website, disputes this version of history. "They date back at least three summers, that is when I bought mine and I certainly wasn't the first (ouch!). I don't think it was Nicole Richie. It was much more likely to have been Kate Moss.

"I guess people wear them because they instantly convey sophistication - the Jackie O look - even if you are an ex-heroin addict and seemingly anorexic like Richie.

Fiona McIntosh, editor of Grazia, favours another route. "It all started with Dior's enormous 'fly eyes' sunglasses, championed by American rap stars, and then swiftly adopted by Victoria Beckham," she says.

"Those fabulous shots of her on the slopes in a Chanel leather ski-suit and glasses bigger than her face spawned hundreds of High Street rip-offs.

"The skinnier the star, the bigger the glasses. Super-skinny American teen queens Richie and Lindsay Lohan are the champions of the supersize-me sunglasses.


Weird distortions
The weird, distorting proportions are certainly part of the glamour. I quite like having a huge black face on top of a short body.

The correct shape, however, is unquestionably the stick insect. Hence the phrase 'fly eyes'. What could the psychology of gigantic glasses possibly be?

The American online culture magazine Americana has published an editorial on the subject: "If eyes are the windows to the soul, then sunglasses block entrance.

"They speak to us simultaneously and sometimes even paradoxically of wild rebellion, cool indifference, wealth and power, glamour and freedom. As such, they represent many of the characteristics that Americans admire."

I think it is fair to say that, as with most of high fashion, what makes sense to women is baffling to men. "What is the deal with sunglasses these days?" asks blogger Tom Sherman on his website. "Every girl I see walks around with huge sunglasses extending from mid-forehead to halfway down her nose.

"There is a perfectly good reason why big sunglasses, which cover large portions of women's faces, are fashionable: they cover large portions of women's faces!

I think Sherman is a little too cynical. The joy of the burqa sunglasses is that you really don't know what a woman looks like. It is a lottery. Every woman has the unexpected joy of modesty and men have the occasional good luck.

Stephen Bayley, the aesthete, reminds me sunglasses acquired their status through Hollywood.

"The movie business developed in California because that quality of light is best suited to filming. The same West Coast brilliance required flimsy East Coast urbanites and pale, imported Europeans to seek optical protection, a defensive measure soon found to carry certain advantages of style.

"By some curious trick, sunglasses make people look more interesting. Sunglasses mediate between assertiveness and reticence, between concealment and display. This is classic erotic territory."
But there is a worse fate for giant sunglasses and that is footballers' wives. The bug-eyed display in Germany this week by the wives and girlfriends of England's World Cup footballers says less about concealment and display - and more about shopping.

Final Word: My girlfriend is also a fanatic of the bug-eyed look. Personally, I can never understand it :dizzy::laughing:

[juicyy]

I like aviators and the shield ones.

[sw33tsmil3s]

i like sunglasses like these...i dunnno what they're called though ><
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[xxk1nky]

i like sunglasses like these...i dunnno what they're called though ><
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those ones work for me too! especially the ones that fade down.

[West Coast Gurlee]

I have different styles in my sunglass collection. From the style above that sw33tsmil3s posted to wraparounds to oversized. What I find annoying are those stupid head visors I've seen Asian women wear while driving. It wraps around the forehead area and the large tinted visor shields the whole face. They end up looking like an alien wearing that thing! hahahaha!

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[*pinkpeachz]

siiiigh ^ that would be my mom ><

[West Coast Gurlee]

siiiigh ^ that would be my mom ><

Hahaha! I would never let my mom drive around looking like that hahaha! It's usually Asian women who drive vans or SUV's who wear those ugly things. There are so many of them out there too. Like a new alien species ><

[lalalone]

I like oversized square ones. I plan on getting some this summer. The ones I'm using now are old boring prescription sunglasses that are small. They make my face look huge and fat. my dad picked them out :(

[aznxbabii]

siiiigh ^ that would be my mom ><


Dear God. Mine too.==)Glad to know i'm not alone. ROFLMAO

[ko0ty]

I like aviators too.. some oversized shades are okay but if you have a small, sharp face, it makes you look really mousy. Hehehe.

[hoOoneydipped]

I'm a fan of the oversized and aviators. The pair of sunnies I recently bought are so big that they don't even touch the bridge of my nose.

That's probably not good.. but I love them to death !

[mArie]

I'm a big fan of oversized and aviators as well. But for the oversized ones, they have to fit your face and be oversized specifically on you. The ones that swallow your face don't look nice

[a_mee]

i personally have so much trouble looking for sunglasses because they always tend to either sit on my cheekbones or float above the bridge of my nose. but i recently bought a pair of gucci oversized round sunglasses but i also like the squarish one. i've always wanted to wear teardrop aviators but they've always hit my cheekbones.
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[Viv1985]

I like oversize but not too big look like bug. Big enough is good. And black frame and black lens.



I'm a fan of the oversized and aviators. The pair of sunnies I recently bought are so big that they don't even touch the bridge of my nose.
That's probably not good.. but I love them to death !

Not touch your bridge? Then how it stay up? Can we pls see picture? :cheerful:

[kerlerfer]

I recently bought the Chanel #4114's so those big wrap around styles are my taste. But these giant square shaped ones are something I wouldn't mind trying out for a new look :smile:

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I wouldn't be caught dead in these ones Brit's wearing though lol
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[*pinkpeachz]

^ i had ones liek those in elementary =] n e ways i like aviators + oversized ones.

[Sales! Sales! Sales!]

How oversized is oversized though? When you measure the temple from left to right how many inches long is it? I think anything over 6" is pretty oversized. How much do your sunglasses measure everyone? :smile:

[quisitely]

I love aviators but b/c of my cheeks it took foreverr for me to find the pair I have now! the bottom rims would cut into my cheeks. ouch!

[y0_Linny]

I'm not sure I like any of these, but here's a link I found on another forum. Asian fit sunglasses:

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I like aviators/wrap sunglasses.

[eescorpius]

i personally have so much trouble looking for sunglasses because they always tend to either sit on my cheekbones or float above the bridge of my nose. but i recently bought a pair of gucci oversized round sunglasses but i also like the squarish one. i've always wanted to wear teardrop aviators but they've always hit my cheekbones.


Same here! I bought a pair of YSL sunglasses and it also sits on my cheekbones! I though I was the only one with this problem, hahaha... I have a flat nose =(

[eescorpius]

I'm not sure I like any of these, but here's a link I found on another forum. Asian fit sunglasses:

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I like aviators/wrap sunglasses.

HMMM but I have a round face so what's suggested doesn't really work for me. Only oversized ones work for me =) and they make my face look smaller too! HAHAHA.