Fancy black and white butterfly glasses

Butterfly sunglasses in black with a white lining

The top edge never comes back down at the ends. It keeps climbing past the temples and closes in a point above the brow, which is the whole of what the word butterfly is doing on a frame this plain in colour. The result is a shape that answers to the angle you give it.

Where the weight sits

Everything thick on this pair is at the front. The temples are plain gold rods, so from the side you read one line and nothing more. What that does in practice is send all the attention to the face of the frame, where the black and the white meet. It is worth setting beside the frames on the sunglasses shelf before deciding, because the profile is where the choice really gets made.

• Smoke grey lenses holding the same depth across the whole lens
• Glossy black rims with a white edge showing underneath
• A bridge with no cut-out, showing white towards the wearer
• Gold rod temples finished with matt black tips

The white you see and the white you do not

Straight on, the white never amounts to a block of colour. It reads as a line, and it follows the black exactly, edge for edge, which is what tells you it is the lining and not paint. From behind there is no black at all: the white runs across the whole of it. A scarf with some colour in it lives in the same drawer and does the job, so reach for something printed if the pair feels too quiet on its own. Heavy at the front, next to nothing behind, and the profile says so at once.