Wednesday 25 May 2011

A Guide to Unisex Sunglasses 2011




Ever since Yves Saint Laurent put a Le Smoking suit on a woman in 1966 ladies fashion as we knew it ended. Emancipated woman realized that clothing no longer has to be restrictive to long skirts, high heels and tight waist. She put on men shirt, loose jeans and military inspired jackets. The term "unisex” appeared. Lately term “gender neutral” became popular. Essentially meaning the same thing as “unisex”, “gender neutrality” applies to men striving to feminine elements of fashion just as much as ladies to men.



Eyewear follows fashion quite closely and since 2010 unisex glasses models make over 60% of entire collection. While this number may appear very high, let’s face it only a few models in each brand collection has a heavy decorations that put them to purely woman category. The rest is unisex. Glasses almost reached a point when there are no men models any more, there are just ladies and unisex. Some brand names are more gender neutral than others. For example Prada, Hugo Boss, Gucci, Tom Ford have larger percentage of unisex models than Dior, and Versace. Some are purely ladies such as Tiffany, Blvlgari and Roberto Cavalli. And some make a point to be men only such as Dior Homme or Carrera. Of course lens size is also a clear sign of some glasses meant to be for men – anything over 60 cm in lens width is considered to fit men head that is generally bigger than ladies. On the other hand, there are certain ladies only glasses models that men love for style but they won’t fit due to a smaller lens size.

Unisex became even a bigger phenomenon in 2012 and continues to be in 2013. In fact eyewear companies started to feature both men and woman in the same glasses and also removed gender identification from the catalogs and some websites.

Other than that, check out our selection of 2013 unisex sunglasses :

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