Tortoiseshell Browline Sunglasses
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Tortoiseshell Browline Sunglasses with Gold Wire Rim
A browline frame in two materials: a thick moulded brow in a tortoiseshell pattern, carried past the outer corner and into the temple, over a fine gold-tone wire holding the lower edge of each lens.
One tortoiseshell and gold-tone colourway, one size, a short run.
A brow along the eyebrow, a wire beneath
Antiques dealers set out on trestle tables and the whole fair is spent bending over things, which puts your face at the same height as everybody else's hands with nothing between you but a yard of air. A thick brow sits along the line of your own eyebrow and a fine gold-tone wire carries the lens below it, so the top half of the face is drawn and the bottom half stays open.
What changes is where the eye lands. The brow doubles your own eyebrow and carries past the outer corner into the temple, so the face reads as having a line drawn across it, and the wire underneath almost disappears. You lift them off to look closely at a mark on the base of something, and the warm brown tint goes with them, leaving the room colder. The second read registers two materials rather than one, and registers that as deliberate.
The dealer looks up before answering, then answers.
A thick brow over a fine gold-tone wire
The frame is built from two materials: a thick moulded brow in a tortoiseshell pattern carried out past the outer corner and into the temple, and a fine gold-tone metal wire holding the lower edge of each lens. The arms match the brow and carry a metal core at the hinge.
The hand finds the bridge first, where small pads sit under the brow. It is supplied in a single tortoiseshell and gold-tone colourway, one size, with a warm brown lens tint rather than a neutral grey, so colours stay warm instead of going flat. The lenses are polarised and carry UV protection.
The brow, the wire, the tint
- Browline frame built from two materials
- Thick moulded brow in a tortoiseshell pattern
- Brow carried past the outer corner and into the temple
- Fine gold-tone metal wire holds the lower edge of each lens
- Metal core at the hinge, with small pads at the bridge
- Polarised lenses that carry UV protection
What travels with it
Take a second pair in the same order and a complimentary gift is packed with them, chosen by us and included without being asked.
| Piece | Sunglasses |
|---|---|
| Lenses | Polarised, UV protection |
| Hardware | Gold-tone |
| Brow | Thick moulded brow in a tortoiseshell pattern |
| Lower rim | Fine gold-tone metal wire |
| Hinge | Arms carry a metal core at the hinge |
| Bridge | Small pads at the bridge |
| Tint | Warm brown rather than a neutral grey |
| size | ONESIZE |
A single tortoiseshell run, one size
There is one colourway here and one size, so no second version is waiting when the run closes. A browline in two materials needs the brow moulded and the wire drawn and fitted separately, which is what keeps the quantity small. A return of the same run is not guaranteed.
Order while the one colourway is on the page. If the brow sits differently along your own eyebrow than you expected, send it back within fourteen days.
