Shades are trendy for everyone, not merely celebrities

BONO wears celebrities to shield his photosensitive eyes and burnish his superstar credentials. Jack Nicholson does not feel like himself without them. When it comes to remainder of us, we wear them to stop squinting in the sun and because they make us look and feel good. There are numerous reasons to wear sunglasses but one holds sway above all others -- they're intricately connected to the concept of cool. They have become the typical uniform of rock stars and celebs and by wearing them, even the most ordinary of us feel that little bit more amazing. A senior lecturer in art cheap nike free run uk.nd design at Nottingham University, she's the writer of Cool Shades, a new book that analyzes nike free 5.0 green.the history and meaning of shades. "I was wearing decorating garments and my hair was a wreck but I absentmindedly put my sunglasses on," she recalls. "I wondered why I'd bothered as it was not particularly sunny. Actually, I even looked 'fairly cool'. My interest was ignited by this minute when shades looked to have power to transform my assessment of my own look. What sunglasses do to the way we experience the world and the way we appear to others became a lasting fascination for myself." "60 located the first appropriate fashion photograph [of sunglasses] in Harpers Bazaar that year," says Brown. "By that time, they were a craze and by mid century, most people in Britain and the US had at least one pair." The apparent practical advantages of sunglasses don't completely explain our fascination with shades. They don't describe why some folks wear sunglasses indoors and at night, why reality TV star Nicole Richie owns more than 200 pairs, or why the average Irish woman possesses four. Our hunger for shades must come from something more in relation to the simple want to protect our eyes from the sunlight. [timgzzzFeelgoodBlathnaidNiChofaighSunglasses_Big[/timg] Blthnaid N Chofaigh Brown has many theories. "Shades have the potential in order to add glamour, mystique and cool to the face and do this in fascinating manners," brown says. "One is the way they add immediate bone structure, symmetry and an obvious enlarging of the eyes." "Symmetry is favored by animals from insects, fish and birds to people," one says. "Shades are in humans symmetrical so they could make faces more attractive." On the other hand, there's much more to it than this. "You've all the ways in which shades hide what you're doing with your eyes and what you may be thinking," says Brown. Our eyes are essential to communicating and avoiding eye contact can create all sorts of impressions, from desiring to preserve seclusion and keeping people at bay to making us appear inscrutable and mysterious. Little has his own views on this. "People like to work to see something rather than have something obvious presented to them," one says. "It is more difficult to detect emotions when someone is wearing shades; understanding the man behind the eyeglasses can appear rewarding. Perhaps a desire to educate this sense of mystique is why US Vogue editor Anna Wintour is seldom seen without her sunglasses? It may be that humans wants to seem aloof and unbothered by the mayhem of the fashion world around her. But appearing otherworldly has been understood to backfire on others. "Wearing shades can be controversial for anyone who needs to appear genuine, religious or serious," says Brown. "When Prince William was photo womens nike free 3.0.raphed in wraparound shades, journalists said it made him appear too flash for a prince of the House of Windsor. Also, during the Jubilee 2000 campaign to stop third world debt, when Bono presented the Pope with shades and he politely set others on, the picture was cut from the TV coverage." This could explain why we scarcely see politicians wearing sunglasses. The want to appear open and genuine; they don't want to seem like they're concealing anything from their public. Cork-based advisor psychologist Dr Gillian Moore-Groarke believes it is all about eye contact. "Shades can hide emotions as they allow folks to avoid direct eye contact," she says. "You are able to use them as a defence in case you don't need people to find what you actually feel. Jerry Ryan's wife Morah wearing shades at his funeral was a classic example of someone using sunglasses to maintain privacy and keep people away. People like politicians never wish to accomplish this and make sure not to wear sunglasses." There are different associations with sunglasses, also. By wearing them, the too could bring some of that sparkle to our lives. "Shades have a favorable association with esteemed, attractive folks," says Little. "We understand that matching someone with an alluring partner increases their attractiveness and maybe wearing sunglasses is enough to lead to similar associations with glamor and appeal." Even the rich and renowned rely on the power of sunglasses. Back in 1997, Jack Nicholson, who is seldom seen without his tinted spectacles, said: "With shades on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60." Brown believes sunglasses are popular for these reasons and more. "They play with truth and lies, susceptibility and invincibility, showing and hiding, interest and deflection, glamour and subculture," brown says. "There's so much to them and it all depends on who is wearing them, when and where."