Black Angular Cat Eye Sunglasses
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Black Angular Cat Eye Acetate Wide Temple Sunglasses
An angular cat-eye moulded in thick acetate, drawn with straight edges rather than curves, on wide flat arms set on metal barrel hinges.
Five colourways on one front, each moulded in a short run.
Angles read from further away
An esplanade is a long straight line of people walking towards each other, which gives a frame a good ten seconds to be read before anyone is close enough to speak. Straight edges carry at that range in a way curves do not: the lower edge cuts in flat and the outer corner rises to a point above the cheekbone.
Up close the reading changes rather than softens. Every face of the front is a flat plane, so the light lands in panels instead of sliding round, and the small metal marker behind the hinge appears only in profile. People do not study a frame; they take it in, and then they place the person wearing it a little differently than they did at the top of the walk.
Lifted at the corner, held just under the brow — that is the whole effect.
Thick acetate, drawn in flat planes
The front is moulded in thick acetate with straight edges rather than curves, so every face of it is a flat plane. The angled top edge sits just under the brow and the lift at the outer corner clears the cheekbone, which is what keeps a medium-wide cut from crowding the face.
The temples are wide flat acetate arms on metal barrel hinges, each with a raised metal marker behind the joint, and the bridge is moulded into the front rather than fitted with adjustable nose pads. The lenses are polarised with an anti-glare treatment and carry full UV400 filtering across UVA and UVB, in a gradient that runs darker at the top and clears towards the bottom.
What ships with the pair
- An angular cat-eye moulded in thick acetate, every face a flat plane
- Wide flat acetate arms on metal barrel hinges
- A raised metal marker behind each joint
- Polarised lenses with anti-glare and full UV400 across UVA and UVB
- Gradient lenses, darker at the top and clearing towards the bottom
- Each pair ships with a case and a cleaning cloth
Five fronts, tortoiseshell and translucent among them
Listed above as Purple, Pink, Black, Brown and Beige, with a tortoiseshell finish, a translucent finish and black fronts run with a pale contrast temple.
What travels with it
Put more than a single piece in the order and a complimentary extra is packed in with it, at no cost to you.
| Piece | Sunglasses |
|---|---|
| Material | Acetate |
| Frame | Acetate |
| Lenses | Polarised, UV400, anti-glare |
| Hinges | Metal barrel hinges |
| Temple marker | Raised metal marker behind the joint |
| Gradient | Darker at the top and clear towards the bottom |
| In the box | Case and cleaning cloth |
| Colours | Purple, Pink, Black, Brown, Beige |
A box is offered as an option above
Moulded thick, held in small quantities
Moulding a front this thick and setting metal hinges into it is slow work, so each colourway is held in small quantities rather than carried on continuously. The translucent and tortoiseshell finishes empty first, and a return of the same run is not guaranteed.
Choose a colourway above and add it to the bag. If the tone is wrong on your own face, fourteen days is enough to send it back.
