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Teardrop sunglasses that make pilots look cool and everyone else look like they're trying to.
means A style of thin-framed sunglasses with large teardrop lenses, originally designed to protect pilots' eyes at altitude.
from Bausch & Lomb crafted them in 1936 for U.S. Army pilots, whose eyes were getting fried at high altitudes — Ray-Ban then sold the swagger to civilians.
General glamourMacArthur wore them; the photos cemented the legend.
Big on purposeLenses cover the whole eye-roll range of glancing instruments.
Top Gun bump1986 film spiked sales by roughly 40 percent.