The Clubmaster Sunglasses Primer - Ray Ban vs. Shuron vs. The Rest

All about Clubmasters here: https://gentl.mn/clubmaster-sunglasses They were originally invented by Jack Rohrbach from Shuron LTD. The goal was to create glasses that allowed the owner to customize fit, size, and color. So they weren't really sunglasses and in the 50's and 60's, people would just wear them as regular glasses and sometimes you could see them with metal snap-on sunglasses. By the 1980's, the TV series moonlighting came out and Bruce Willis famously wore the Ronsir from Shuron in that show. They're called browline style because they make people look at the browline because of the contrasting colors and dark on top. Typically, lenses are held in metal frames. Shuron allowed the customers to basically choose any kind of color for the dark parts, the metal parts, and the tinted lenses. RayBan liked the style and copied it and simply called it clubmaster. They were also much stronger on the marketing department which is why today, the clubmaster is much more well-known and synonymous with the browline style than ronsir is. In 1993, Michael Douglas wore the browline style in the movie Falling down and as such, it became synonymous with an angry man. At that time, it seemed like the clubmaster or browline style were on life support but they really came back strong. So what are the hallmarks of Clubmaster or browline style sunglasses? Well, first of all, it's the frame on top that is thicker than at the bottom. The upper part is usually made of plastic or ace