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Aviator sunglasses are a style of sunglasses that were developed by Bausch & Lomb and branded as Ray-Ban. They are characterized by dark, often reflective lenses having an area two or three times the area of the eye socket, and metal frames with bayonet earpieces or flexible cable temples that hook behind the ears. The original design featured G-15 tempered glass lenses, i.e., neutral gray, transmitting 20% of incoming light. The large lenses are not flat but slightly convex. The design attempts to cover the entire range of the human eye and prevent as much light as possible from entering the eye from any angle.[1]
[edit] History
Aviator sunglasses were given their name due to their oblique teardrop shape,Ray-Ban RB3415Q, which matched those of the smoked-lens flying goggles which Ray-Ban was then selling to the Army and Navy. One undesirable result of wearing these goggles was the mismatched tan (darker on the face, lighter around the eyes) which developed.

The Aviator became a well-known style of sunglasses when General Douglas MacArthur landed on the beach in the Philippines in World War II. Photographers snapped several pictures of him wearing them for newspapers.[2]
The aviator style has been popular since the 1960s,ray ban rb 8302, but became even more so following pop culture references of Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney[3] and Ringo Starr,[3] and later use by celebrities in films like Top Gun, where Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise sported them,CARRERA GAFAS COOL, Ray Ban aviators were also prominently featured in films Cobra starring Sylvester Stallone and To Live and Die in L.A. - where two main characters are seen wearing them through the film.
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