Leopard print brown and gold glasses

Brown leopard print sunglasses with openwork gold temples

Two finishes meet on this pair and neither one gives way. The front is printed edge to edge, inside surface included, while each arm begins in gold, cut through with scrolls and small flower rosettes so that light passes behind the gold band. Held at eye level, the gold sits exactly where the frame is widest, level with the hinge. It is the part worth comparing with the other animal prints stocked alongside.

A straight brow line above lifted corners

The upper rim does not curve. It travels flat across both lenses and dips only at the bridge, which leaves the top of the frame reading as a single dark bar. The lift happens at the ends: each outer corner rises to a point while the lower rim slopes back in towards the nose. Angular rather than soft, and the two edges pull in opposite directions, which is what stops the shape from reading as a plain rectangle.

How far the gold runs along each arm

One arm, three sections, front to back:

• the openwork plate, full width, scrollwork looping around flower rosettes;
• a small solid gold block, no cut-outs, closing the pattern where the arm meets the front;
• the printed section, which takes over at the midpoint and narrows to a rounded tip.

Seen from behind with the arms folded, the two tips cross and the print carries on across the inside of the frame.

Pushed up, worn down

Brown print behaves differently from a bright one: it sits close to the tones most bags and boots already use, so it reads as a warm neutral rather than a statement. Worn down, the dark brow line does most of the work and the amber only shows at the sides. Pushed up into the hair, the wide arms hold better than a thin wire, though a frame is never quite what we keep for holding a fringe back.