Maybe Dwayne Wayne was onto something. New styles of flip-up glasses are making the dated design genuinely covetable.
FLIP THE SCRIPT Vibrant colors and sleek silhouettes have made contemporary flip-up glasses genuinely covetable.always played two roles: to shield your eyes from damaging UV rays, and to make you look cool. Just what constitutes “cool” has fluctuated with the decades—remember our early-2000s obsession with bedazzled frames? But few designs have more questionable associations than flip-up, clip-on shades, despite their ability to cleverly block or let in sunlight via a hinge attachment.
While aviator sunglasses evoke Tom Cruise in “Top Gun” and understated black frames conjure icons like Joan Didion and Jackie O., the closest thing the flip-up has to an avatar is the nerdy, well-meaning Dwayne Wayne of “A Different World.”
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