Gold Wire Butterfly Sunglasses
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Gold Metal Wire Butterfly Frame Sunglasses
A butterfly frame bent from thin metal wire, with the lift at the outer corner formed by the bend itself, a slim bridge and nose pads on adjustable metal arms.
Bent wire is made in small lots, and the tinted ones go first.
Mid-morning on a shopping street
A shopping street in the middle of the morning is a long row of plate glass, and every window gives back a version of you walking past. The lift at the outer corner of a butterfly frame is the part that shows in a reflection: it carries the eye upward and outward, away from the jaw, in one continuous wire.
Worn, the effect is on the top third of the face. The wire rim is one closed run around each lens, so there is nothing heavy to compete with the cheekbone, and the frame clears it rather than resting on it. The shape reads as width where the face narrows. Taken off at a counter while you ask about something, the frame folds down to almost nothing in the hand, and what the assistant looks at next is you. The second look is the one that stays.
You see the second look happen in the window behind the till.
Bent from wire, lifted at the corner
The shape is bent from thin metal wire rather than built up with added material, which means the lift at the outer corner is the bend itself. The rim is a single closed run around each lens, joined by a slim bridge, so the front is one drawn line from temple to temple.
Behind each metal barrel hinge sits a short textured block, small enough to be a thumb-width detail and the only worked surface on an otherwise plain arm. Nose pads ride on adjustable metal arms, the slim arms finish in moulded tips, and the wire rim keeps the weight low across the nose.
Wire, hinge and the lens choice
- Butterfly frame bent from thin metal wire
- A single closed rim run around each lens
- Slim bridge with nose pads on adjustable metal arms
- A short textured block behind each metal barrel hinge
- Polarised with an anti-glare treatment on the tinted colourways
- Gold Frame comes with an untinted lens, as a frame
Three versions of the same wire rim
The selector holds Brown, Gold Frame and Black on the one gold-tone wire rim. Gold Frame is supplied with an untinted lens, so it arrives as a frame rather than a sun lens.
What travels with it
Put more than one pair in the same order and a complimentary gift rides along in the parcel, picked by us and added unasked.
| Piece | Sunglasses |
|---|---|
| Lenses | Polarised, UV400, anti-glare |
| Hardware | Gold-tone |
| Rim | A single closed run around each lens |
| Corner lift | Formed by the bend rather than added material |
| Temples | Short textured block behind the metal barrel hinge |
| Colours | Brown, Gold Frame, Black |
A box is offered as an option above
Bent wire is made in small lots
A rim bent from wire has to hold its own shape without a thick frame behind it, so the lots are small and the tinted colourways go before the untinted one. Quantities are set per colourway rather than topped up while the run is open, and a return of the same run is not guaranteed.
Take the colourway you want while the three are together. If the width is wrong for your face, send it back within fourteen days.
