The Allure of Enormous Sunglasses

The original sunglass girl. Photo from The Vintage Solution.

Try to think of the oldest image you can find of someone wearing sunglasses. Stumped? You should be. Although shades have been around since 60 B.C., they didn’t sit on mainstream American faces until approximately 1970.

But you know where they were long before the average Jane was covering up her hangover with bug-eye frames? The silver screen.

This pilot is just trying to look cool. Photo from gordonf.hubpages.com

Sunglasses had been s...