Valhalla Island

I don’t wear sunglasses. I should. The problem is today’s sunglass fashion is ugly and since ugly is not my style, I’m having trouble choosing a pair that is not a detriment to my stunning good looks or level of cool.

They all have too much crap on them. It seems they add superfluous bits to justify the insane prices (and add to the appeal of 26 year old dirt motorbike riders). Here’s a good example - the Oakley “Oildrum” that sells for something like $250.

That or they’re huge bug-eyed things, popular with girls and men that wear peach coloured semi-button up t-shirts, with the buttons undone. Here’s Von Zipper’s offering:

Ugly and uncool in their own separate ways.

Of course there’s aviators which, while slightly impractical, look undeniably cool. There’s a few problems with aviators though:

1. They’re not taken seriously. They make you look like you’re joking. Part of the reason for this is the oversized frame, the other is due to the following point.
2. Wankers wear aviators. You know the people:

I know the sunglasses I want exist. These were my requirements:

1. They have to be as dark as possible
2. The frame must be black with a gloss coating
3. They must be of high quality

Then it hit me, I know who wore these glasses:

The Blues Brothers, there’s no one cooler. And if there is, I’m sure they also wore Ray-Ban Wayfarers. Hell, James Dean, Roy Orbison, John Lennon and Andy Warhol all wore Wayfarers. Tom Cruise did his best to make them uncool but he’s far outweighed by other wearers.

They’re so perfect - simple, clean, dark, reputable, high quality, not outrageously expensive, they’re serious, the way sunglasses should be.