Sunglasses are cool for everyone, not just celebrities

BONO wears celebrities to shield his photo-sensitive eyes and burnish his star credentials. Jack Nicholson doesn't feel like himself without celebrities. When it comes to rest of us, we wear celebrities to stop squinting in the sun and because they make us look and feel good. There are several reasons to wear shades but one holds sway above all others -- they are intricately connected to the notion of cool. They have become the conventional uniform of rock stars and celebrities and by wearing them, even the most ordinary of us feel that small bit greater. Vanessa Brown is intrigued by why this is. A senior lecturer in art and design at Nottingham University, she is the writer of Cool Shades, a new novel that examines the history and significance of shades. Her interest started years ago when she popped out for milk while decorating her flat. "60 was wearing decorating garments and my hair was a mess but I absentmindedly put my sunglasses on," she recalls. "60 wondered why I had bothered as it wasn't particularly bright. Afterward I caught a glimpse of myself and realised I looked better with shades. Actually, I even looked 'rather cool'. My curiosity was triggered by this minute when sunglasses seeme nike free run for women. to have power to transform my appraisal of my own look. What shades do to the way in which we experience the world and the way we seem to others became a long-term fascination for 60." But it wasn't until 1938 that they made the transition to cool. "60 located the first appropriate fashion picture [of shades] in Harpers Bazaar that year," says Brown. "By that time, they were a craze and by mid century, most individuals in Britain and the US had at least one pair." The clear practical advantages of su nike free 5.0 green.glasses do not entirely explain our fascination with shades. They do not explain why some people wear sunglasses indoors and at night, why reality TV star Nicole Richie possesses more than 200 pairs, or why the average Irish woman possesses four. Our appetite for shades must stem from something more compared to the straightforward want to protect our eyes from your sunlight. [timgzzzFeelgoodBlathnaidNiChofaighSunglasses_Big[/timg] Brown has many theories. "Shades have the possibility to add glamour, mystique and cool to the face and do this in fascinating manners," she says. "One is the manner they add instant bone structure, symmetry and an evident enlarging of the eyes." "Balance is preferred by creatures from insects, fish and birds to people," he says. "Shades are in humans symmetrical so that they could make faces more attractive." But there is much more to it than this. "One have all the ways shades hide what you're doing with your eyes and what exactly you may be thinking," says Brown. Our eyes are critical to communication and avoiding eye contact can create a wide range of impressions, from desiring to preserve privacy and keeping folks at bay to making us seem inscrutable and mysterious. "Folks enjoy to work to see something rather than have something clear presented to them," one says. "It is more difficult to detect emotions when someone is wearing shades; understanding the person behind the spectacles can look rewarding. People tend to get more excited and aroused by the unknown than the known." Perhaps a desire to educate this awareness of mystique is why US Vogue editor Anna Wintour is seldom seen without her sunglasses? It may be that she wants to seem aloof and trouble by the mayhem of the trend world around her. But looking otherworldly is known to backfire on others. "Wearing sunglasses can be contentious for anyone who needs to seem sincere, religious or serious," says Brown. Likewise, during the Jubilee 2000 campaign to end third world debt, when Bono presented the Pope with shades and he politely put others on, the image was cut from the TV coverage." This could explain why we scarcely see politicians wearing shades. The want to seem open and honest; they do n't need to look like they are hiding anything from their public. Cork-based consultant psychologist Dr Gillian Moore-Groarke believes it's about eye contact. "Shades can hide emotions as they allow individuals to prevent direct eye contact," she says. "You can use thems nike free run 5.0 women.lves as a defence in case you don't need people to find what you actually feel. Jerry Ryan's wife Morah wearing sunglasses at his funeral was a classic example of someone using shades to preserve privacy and keep people at bay. Folks like politicians never wish to accomplish this and make certain not to wear sunglasses." There are other organizations with sunglasses, too. "Shades have a favorable association with prestigious, attractive individuals," says Little. "People understand that pairing someone having an alluring partner increases their attractiveness and maybe wearing shades is enough to lead to similar associations with glamour and appeal." Even the rich and famous rely on the power of shades. Back in 1997, Jack Nicholson, who's seldom seen without his tinted glasses, said: "With sunglasses on, I am Jack Nicholson. Without even the rich and famous, I am fat and 60." Brown thinks shades are popular for these reasons and more. "Even the rich and famous play with truth and lies, vulnerability and invincibility, demonstrating and hiding, attraction and deflection, glamor and subculture," she says. "There is so much to them and it all depends on who's wearing them, when and where."