Sunglasses
Designer
Claire McCardell
(1905 - 1958)
c. 1955
Plastic (possibly) and gold metal
Gift of Abel Rapp
Object number2014.56.3
Claire McCardell’s designs were more relaxed and sportier than French fashion, representing the white, middle-class, suburban lifestyle that drove “the American look,” and connoting postwar prosperity and consumer power.
DescriptionSunspecs by Claire McCardell, yellow sunglasses with bright blue lens, faux horn look, rounded cat eye frames with gold metal studs at templesCollections
Exhibitions