I Can't Stop Wearing Sporty Sunglasses—28 Pairs in My Shopping Cart
I have a distinct memory of myself in high school, looking puzzlingly at the baseball team because every single player had on the same blue- or red-lens Oakley (or Oakley look-alike) sunglasses, as if they were an official part of their uniform. Oversize, shield-like, and sporty—the latter of which I am not—the style made no sense to me aesthetically. That is, until now. Ten years later, those same aerodynamic shades are all I want to wear.
It started when I set out to find a pair of performance sunglasses to run in this summer and stumbled across a pair of matte black shades on one of those spinning racks at Duane Reade. (You know the ones.) At $13 a pop, I couldn't help myself. Before long, I began wearing them for more than just morning jogs, styling them with everyday outfits and even wearing them throughout NYFW. And apparently, I'm not the only one taking an interest in performance eyewear.
Ahead, see for yourself the growing interest in sporty sunglasses, and shop an array that ranges from Balenciaga and Bottega Veneda to Ray-Ban and District Vision.
Look at that: Kim Kardashian West wearing sporty sunglasses.
These shades, designed by Kardashian West's stylist Veneda Carter, keep selling out.
From the front, these look like standard sunglasses. But once you see the side angle, you can tell they were made for ~sports~.
Is it too early to call these the It shades for 2022?
I swear my mom had these, and now I'm wondering if she still does (so I can steal them, obviously).
This bug-eyed style is a favorite of brands like Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, and Burberry.
This color palette!
I think about the fall 2020 runway look these sunglasses were included in daily.
I'm telling you sport sunglasses make every outfit look cooler.
Despite only just launching on October 31, sporty eyewear brand Mojo is already garnering attention among trendsetters such as Paige Reifler and Cailin Russo.
Excuse me while I scour the internet to find these pink shades.
It's safe to say that anything Dua Lipa wears I want to wear too.
These will become the main selling point of your look, no matter what you wear with them.
Sporty shades aren't just for the slopes. Though, they will make your slopeside attire look tenfold more stylish.
Okay, this color is incredible. The discount isn't half bad either.
Next, 29 pairs of the coolest new sunglasses.
Eliza Huber is a New York City–based fashion editor who specializes in trend reporting, brand discovery, and celebrity style. She joined Who What Wear in 2021 after almost four years on the fashion editorial team at Refinery29, the job she took after graduating with a marketing degree from the University of Iowa. She has since launched two monthly columns, Let's Get a Room and Ways to Wear; profiled the likes of Dakota Fanning, Diane Kruger, Katie Holmes, and Sabrina Carpenter for WWW's monthly cover features; and reported on everything from the relationship between Formula One and fashion to the top trends from fashion month, season after season. Eliza now lives on the Upper West Side and spends her free time researching F1 fashion imagery for her side Instagram accounts @thepinnacleoffashion and @f1paddockfits, running in Central Park, and scouring eBay for '90s Prada and '80s Yves Saint Laurent.
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