Black Retro Cat Eye Sunglasses
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Black Acetate Retro Cat Eye Sunglasses with Gold Plaque
A retro cat-eye cut from heavy acetate, the top edge rising from the bridge to a sharp point at the outer corner, with a raised metal monogram set into each wide temple.
Nine finishes share one front, and each is cut in a short run.
The line that meets the face
Museum steps are the one place where people look up while they wait, and a cat-eye is read from the bottom of the flight. The top edge lifts from the bridge to a point at the outer corner, and that line runs against the line of the cheekbone rather than along it.
A frame on the face is not an accessory you can put down, which is why it is the thing people describe afterwards. Heavy acetate holds its edge at conversational distance, and the metal monogram on the temple shows only when you turn your head. The second look is the one that decides the frame was chosen rather than grabbed, and it tends to revise everything above the shoulders along with it.
Take them off mid-sentence and the face underneath is the next surprise.
Heavy acetate, cut deep at the rim
The front is cut from heavy acetate, with the rim kept deep so the line holds instead of thinning out towards the corner. The bridge is moulded into the front rather than fitted on, which is why the whole front reads as one piece of material.
Each wide temple carries a raised metal monogram set into a routed channel, so the metal sits flush in the acetate instead of on top of it — that is the edge your thumb finds when you fold the arms. On the tinted finishes the lenses are polarised with an anti-glare treatment and full UV400 filtering across UVA and UVB; two of them use an amber lens that lifts contrast in flat light.
Tinted, amber or clear — what each one is
- A retro cat-eye in heavy acetate, with a deep rim
- A raised metal monogram set into a routed channel on each temple
- Polarised lenses with anti-glare and full UV400 across UVA and UVB on the tinted finishes
- Two finishes use an amber lens that lifts contrast in flat light
- The clear-lens options are optical frames rather than sunglasses, ready to be reglazed to prescription
Nine finishes, a single front
Listed above as Black, Black Gold, Red, Red Black, White Silver, White Gold, Leopard, Leopard Ambar Lenses and Black Clear Lenses.
What travels with it
More than a single piece in the order and a complimentary extra comes in the same parcel, picked by us at no charge to you.
| Piece | Sunglasses |
|---|---|
| Material | Acetate |
| Frame | Acetate |
| Lenses | Polarised, UV400, anti-glare |
| Temples | Raised metal monogram set into a routed channel |
| Top edge | Rising from the bridge to a sharp point |
| Clear-lens options | Optical frames ready to be reglazed to prescription |
| Amber lens | Lifts contrast in flat light |
| Colours | Black Gold, Black, Red Black, White Silver, Leopard Ambar Lenses, Black Clear Lenses, White Gold, Leopard, Red |
A box is offered as an option above
Cut acetate, set metal, short runs
Heavy acetate has to be cut and the metal has to be set into the channel, which keeps the quantity low per finish. Sold direct with no retail margin on top, which is what holds that work at this price, and a return of the same run is not guaranteed.
Pick the finish above and add it to the bag. Fourteen days is enough to decide in your own daylight and send it back.
