Fancy glasses with shades of purple and pink

Rimless sunglasses with a lilac-to-pink gradient and brown arms

Pick the pair up and look at it from behind, the way you see it when you are wearing it. There is no gold in that view at all. The bridge bar, the corner pieces and the fittings that grip each lens are all set on the outward face, so the metal is a front-only feature. What is left on the inside is plain enough: two arms carrying a printed grain, the pads at the nose, and the reverse of the lenses. To see how other fronts handle the same split, look through the other tinted fronts in the range.

What you see from the wearer's side

• Two arms in a printed brown grain, running the full length
• Two pink pads, the only coloured part that touches the face
• Four small screws, one at each corner where the lens is held
• The back of the glass, lilac above and pink below
• Not one gold part along the whole of it

Why the split matters once they go up into your hair

Sunglasses spend half their life on top of the head rather than on the nose, and that is the moment the inside becomes the outside. Most frames look much the same either way round. This one does not: pushed up, brown takes over and the gold is hidden against the hair. It is worth knowing before you match the pair to anything else, because the colour other people see depends on where the glasses happen to be.

Picking the rest around a brown that keeps moving

A frame with two faces is easier to dress than it sounds, as long as you follow the brown rather than the gold, because the brown is the part that shows in both positions. Warm tones work all day; cool ones only while the pair is on the nose. That makes brown the safer thing to echo, and it is easiest to do somewhere the glasses will actually land. Have a look at the scrunchies that end up in the same spot.