Purple One Piece Shield Sunglasses
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Purple Gradient One Piece Lens Rimless Shield Sunglasses
A single one-piece lens spanning both eyes, cut into a soft cat-eye and mounted only at the two outer corners, with a slim metal nose bar sitting behind it. Polarised, with full UV400 filtering.
Six tints on one continuous lens, and each cut is a small quantity.
One lens, no join across the face
Produce stalls under canvas keep everyone at talking distance for an hour, leaning over crates, and faces get read close and slowly. A single lens spans both eyes with no bridge crossing it, so what the person on the other side of the trestle sees is one continuous curve where they expect two circles and a join.
The difference is in what is missing. Without a bar across the nose and without a seam between left and right, the front stops reading as spectacles and starts reading as a line drawn across the face. You lift it away to check a label and the slim nose bar comes off the nose rather than out of it. The glance that follows works out that there is no join anywhere, and that is the part that holds attention.
A stallholder asks about them while weighing out plums.
A nose bar that sits behind the lens
One piece of lens does the structural work: cut into a soft cat-eye, spanning both eyes and mounted only at the two outer corners, with nothing holding the lower or inner edge. A slim metal nose bar with adjustable pads sits behind the lens rather than through it, so there is no bridge crossing the face.
The hand finds the pads first, adjustable on their arms, so the height is set to your own nose. The temples are slim metal, taken straight back from the outer corners where the lens is mounted. Four of the six tints run as a gradient, darker at the brow and clearing towards the lower edge; Brown and Dark Blue are the two solid ones.
The lens, the nose bar, the tints
- A single one-piece lens spanning both eyes
- Cut into a soft cat-eye, mounted at the two outer corners
- Slim metal nose bar with adjustable pads behind the lens
- No bridge crossing the face and no join between left and right
- Slim metal temples taken back from the outer corners
- Polarised with an anti-glare treatment and full UV400 filtering
Six tints across the one-piece cut
The selector runs Purple, Fading Purple, Brown, Pink, Dark Blue and Fading Pink. Four of the six clear towards the lower edge; Brown and Dark Blue run solid.
What travels with it
Order a second pair alongside the first and a complimentary gift travels with them, chosen by us and added without being asked.
| Piece | Sunglasses |
|---|---|
| Frame | Rimless |
| Lenses | Polarised, UV400, anti-glare |
| Lens form | A single one-piece lens that spans both eyes |
| Mounting | Mounted only at the two outer corners |
| Nose bar | Slim metal nose bar with adjustable pads |
| Temples | Slim metal temples |
| Filter | Full UV400 filtering across UVA and UVB |
| Colours | Purple, Fading Purple, Brown, Pink, Dark Blue, Fading Pink |
A box is offered as an option above
A one-piece lens, cut to a quantity
A lens that spans both eyes has to be cut and mounted as one piece, which is slower than two circles and keeps every tint to a shallow run. Selling direct with no retail margin on top is what keeps a one-piece rimless lens at this price. A return of the same run is not guaranteed.
Choose the tint while the six are listed side by side. If the one-piece sits differently on your face than you pictured, it can go back within fourteen days.
