May
5
Why Bigger is Better
Filed Under Celebrities & Eyewear, Designer Sunglasses
You’ve heard the saying ‘bigger is better,’ well in sunglasses fashion that saying has proven true. Prada, Versace, Bvlgari, Armani, all the big names have touted big frames. For the past several years petite, attractive and glamorous Hollywood starlets have been hiding behind bigger and bigger shades.
When Paris Hilton, the princess of feminine fashion and flare, stepped on to the red carpet in thick Dior shades in 2007 the trend was solidified into style.
The Olsen twins, whose petite frames look weighed-down under the designs of Gucci and Prada, have ignored the skepticism and persisted in wearing the large framed shades, making thousands of idolizing young women follow suit.
Beyonce and Rhianna have jumped in on the fun in oversized Versace and Dior, rocking the look and bringing the style into the fashion world of universally appealing.
For the stars, large sunglasses make sense when attempting to blend into a crowd. Perhaps that’s where the style, at least in Hollywood, originated. But on the red carpet these singers and actresses have kept on their shades with pride, flaunting their designer look.
Large sunglasses have the added benefit of drawing focus to the mouth, which is appealing for women with triangular shaped faces, whose mouths often look impish without large eye makeup or eyewear. In western society large eyes have always been deemed beautiful, so large eyewear is a natural extension of that fetish. Drawing attention to the mouth is also extremely sexual, and especially works when the glasses have a dark tint. This, also, can make the wearer appear to have a porcelain doll look, which is at once fragile, delicate and fashionable.
Whatever the reason, the style has persisted for several years and looks unlikely to fade into fashion oblivion, proving once and for all that for women, bigger is better.
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