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Designers
at Purdy started the wraparound sunglasses
fad by fitting First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy with a
pair. Before the early 1960s, sunglasses were not fashionable
among American youth but Mrs. Kennedy changed that when
she was seen wearing wraparound sunglasses. She seemed
to epitomize perfect fashion sense in America, so whatever
Jackie wore, every woman in America wanted.
Wraparound
sunglasses had practical sense as well as fashion sense.
These sunglasses kept dirt particles and sunlight out
of the eye because the lenses reached from the bridge
of the nose past the temple.
Although
wraparound sunglasses began to slide out of fashion
around 1962, renditions of this fashion trend are still
part of the fashion today.
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