Do eyeglasses/sunglasses with an overhang/visor exist?

September 14, 2024 10:51 AM

Imagine that each lens of a pair of glasses has a little visor, like a small version of the bill of a baseball cap. Either clear lenses or tinted lenses. Does this exist? Or has this existed historically?

I did find a website online that has sunglasses with a single visor across the top, but I’m specifically thinking of each lens having a tiny visor.

I feel like I have seen this before, maybe as a cosplay/steampunk/historical thing, but I may be conflating other types of old timey goggles/glasses.

posted by hapticactionnetwork to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (12 answers total)

Like this? One of the pix has one lens up and one down.
posted by beaning at 11:40 AM on September 14, 2024

Best answer: It's definitely a steampunk thing to have those little shades on the sides of the lenses, but they typically go back toward the temples rather than forward. See a variety in this search for Holtzmann glasses (as worn by Jillian Holtzmann in a recent Ghostbusters movie).
posted by limeonaire at 11:53 AM on September 14, 2024 [2 favorites]

Apparently sunglasses visors also exist? Though they're not separate per lens.
posted by limeonaire at 11:56 AM on September 14, 2024

I buy those hideous big "over the glasses" sunglasses where the "visor" goes inward toward the brow to shield the eye from the sun shining down behind the sunglasses lens. Those aren't really visors, though, since they go the wrong way. If they made those same things with a forward-facing visor added into the mix, I'd probably get some, just to add another level of awful. Might as well go all-in.
posted by Don Pepino at 12:01 PM on September 14, 2024 [1 favorite]

Best answer: What limeonaire found under Holtzmann glasses are called glacier (sun)glasses when made for non-costume use, but I don't think that's what you're looking for.
posted by hoyland at 12:01 PM on September 14, 2024 [2 favorites]

Visor shades, though it's one big visor rather than one for each lens.

I'm guessing that such a thing exists--it's a big world, and both glasses and sunglasses have been around a long time--but haven't found any.
posted by box at 12:57 PM on September 14, 2024

Response by poster: Thanks y'all, I think I was/am misremembering limeonaire's Holtzman glasses (or glacier glasses) suggestion. I guess I'll just have to make something.
posted by hapticactionnetwork at 1:03 PM on September 14, 2024 [1 favorite]

Best answer: The first thing I thought of was the "solar shades" Pizza Hut had in 1989 as a promotion for Back to the Future Part II. There were a few types, one was yellow with shades over each round lens. (My friends and I called them "stoplight sunglasses" because that's what they looked like to us.)
posted by rhiannonstone at 1:08 PM on September 14, 2024 [7 favorites]

Response by poster: Oh my gosh rhiannonstone that's exactly what I was imagining, thank you!
posted by hapticactionnetwork at 1:17 PM on September 14, 2024 [1 favorite]

I swear I remember glasses like rhiannonstone posted, but in metal with black or mirrored lenses. At first I thought Hollywood from the movie Mannequin but I can't find any pictures of him wearing those particular ones, and then for some reason I thought DJ Jazzy Jeff but his were the flip-up kind... Then I started looking at cyberpunk films like Johnny Mnemonic, Strange Days, Hackers, The Matrix... I'm now on a mission to find these!
posted by erst at 1:23 PM on September 14, 2024 [2 favorites]

ebay has some.
posted by SageTrail at 5:50 PM on September 14, 2024 [1 favorite]

Some “flip up” (sun)glasses had this
posted by oceano at 2:09 AM on September 15, 2024