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Is it ever a good idea to… wear tinted sunglasses?

Henry Blake
Henry Blake
11 months ago
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Jean-Michel Tixier for M Le Magazine du Monde

SSomewhere between being an accessory and an accessory and unnecessary, ridiculous and grotesque, fashionable and vain, an unusual element has come to impose its presence in our stylistic landscape: for severe tinted lenses, nicelasses tolasslasses toleses, the liquid liquids of the liquids of the liquid Smoking liquids, smoking liquids, smoking settlements, smoking liquids, smoking settlements, rains come, come bright, come bright, Llovles come, they come rains, Llovlas come, Llovles come. Used everywhere, both in summer and winter, indoors and outdoors.

So what are we talking about exactly? Behind the widely used “smoke lenses” there are sunglasses equipped with category 0 or 1 lenses, characterized by their minimum protection against sunlight, or the complete lack of it. More precisely, while the standard SOLPS with category 2 or 3 lenses filter between 58% and 92% of sunlight, tinted lenses only reduce the intensity between 0% and 57%.

That is enough theory and numbers. Actually, these unusual lenses mainly affect our perception of people’s eyes. While optical lenses leave them completely visible and sunglasses hide them completely, smoke lenses throw an ambiguous and disturbing veil on the subject. When facing a little glasses, it is difficult not miracle: do they suffer from eye sensitivity, something that would require this precautionary child or are you just trying to make a statement?

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Let’s not be deceived. While a constant transition between the blue light of the computers and the white light of the sun can sometimes be uncomfortable, most permanent majority of tint lens enthusiasts are clearly making a statement with this ostentatious and symbolic access of Averter. Worse, they are projecting their vision of the future: on the day their talent shines so that everyone sees it, they will be protected from the light of fame and the hard flashes of the paparazzi chamber.

At the end of the day, after this train of thought, which can cost us some nearby friends, unless they suffer eye sensitivity, the conclusion is clear: these glasses are not destined to see better, but only to be better.

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Translation of an original article published in French on Lemonde.fr; The editor can only be responsible for the French version.

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