Sunglasses, part of fashion or today's necessity ?

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Early sunglasses served a special purpose and it wasn't to block the rays of the sun.




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For centuries, Chinese judges had routinely worn smoke-colored quartz lenses to conceal their eye expressions in court. It wasn't until the 20th century that modern-type sunglasses came to be.




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Chinese judges wore smoke-colored quartz lenses to conceal their eye expressions in court.




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Vision-correcting darkened eyeglasses were introduced into China from Italy




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James Ayscough believed blue-green-tinted glass could correct specific vision impairments.




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Sam Foster found a ready market for sunglasses on the beaches of Atlantic City, New Jersey




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A clever advertising campaign by Foster Grant makes sunglasses chic and popular.




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These darkened lenses were not vision-corrected, nor were they initially intended to reduce solar glare.




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Smoke-tinted lenses came to serve also as sunglasses, but that was never their primary function.




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James Ayscough began experimenting with tinted lenses in spectacles in the mid-18th century.

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