While we save up for our $300 Valentino cat’s eye sunglasses (someday, someday … when we start selling our hair, Fantine-style), we’re actually buying under $40 Cheap Monday sunglasses. All (at least most) of the style, at 10% of the price. We keep checking to ensure that it is, in fact, officially spring, and when the sun returns from its wintery slumber (please, Saturday, please), we’ll will be wearing one of these.
We remember, in fact, when one of our friends said that she skewed the entirety of her shopping budget to position her to squint as little as possible. It’s an admirable goal—not carbon neutral, maybe, but still something to work for. It’s not necessary to buy $300 frames for that purpose—though we will admit that this is one of the areas where we actually don’t like to economize that much, since the difference in lens quality varies so hugely from cheap pairs to designer ones. This is something we go back and forth on every year: the improvement in quality versus the absolute surety that we will (a) scratch them, (b) leave them on the subway or (c) arbitrarily decide we need new ones. This is why, this year, we’re going the Cheap Monday route.
Above: Cryokinesis sunglasses, $30
