Mirrored aviators are hot! Stay stealth, with these extremely popular style of sunglasses, sometimes also called pilot shades or just plain aviators. Worn by cops/police/law enforcement, lifeguards everywhere, and the fashion conscious, mirrored aviators are here in a big way.
The mirrored look you see on them is more of a newer coating that was developed for these sunglasses. Many people choose this mirrored look so it completely hides their eyes from people around them. It helps them feel comfortable knowing others cannot see their eyes.
Mirrored Aviators
This can also be a bad thing in some situations, such as face time with your friends. It can bother people to be talking to you and not know that you are giving them eye contact or not! You may notice a lot of lifeguards also wear this style too.
Mirrored aviators were a style developed by Ray Ban and sold to the army and the navy. Some believe this large tear drop shape style of glasses helped better protect the pilots from glare and the bright sunlight during flight.
Colored Mirrored Aviators
As celebrities picked up this style of aviator sunglasses, popularity in them increased dramatically. They have been popular since the 1960s but got even more popular as these mirrored aviators hit the pop culture scene.
It was actually Tom Cruise who reignited the popularity of mirrored aviators in the movie Top Gun in the 1980s. He as well as others in the movie can be seen wearing these sunglasses throughout the movie. This style of sunglasses is incredibly popular and very often imitated and available from many other brands. Other brands are not just imitations straight up though. They offer very attractive alternatives and twists to the original design of mirrored aviators that are sometimes even better!