Heart-shaped hippie sunglasses with brown tint

Heart sunglasses whose lens edge is cut in waves

The two lenses repeat one heart outline exactly: two rounded lobes at the brow, a clean point below. Nothing crosses the top of the glass, so the outline runs free from one lobe to the other. A gold-toned bridge, three straight segments rather than a curve, spans the gap between the two hearts, and a small screw on either side of each lens does the holding. Before settling on a tint it is worth running through the other pairs stocked in the sunglasses aisle.

How far down the colour reaches

The brown is at its darkest along the upper edge, where the two lobes rise. From there it loosens, and by mid-lens it has already turned pink. At the point it is barely present, pale enough to look through without effort. Both lenses break at the same height, so on the face the dark band lines up across the brow while the clear part falls over the cheekbone. The tint is never even, and that is what makes it work: the colour follows the shape instead of flooding it.

Reading the pair, piece by piece

Slim arms, and how they fold

• Each arm is a slim rod of even width, gold-toned from hinge to tip.
• It meets the lens high up, at the outer corner, well above eye level.
• The last stretch is black and slightly thicker, shaped to sit behind the ear.
• Folded, the arms lie flat behind the lenses, so the pair takes almost no room in a bag.

Worn with the hair off the face, the warm brown at the brow works with camel, cream and rust, and the pink keeps it from turning severe. It sits happily beside the scarves that share this accessories floor.