When Dorothy Parker memorably quipped "men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses" she was presumably only talking about glasses of the prescription kind. Surely she couldn't have been talking about sunglasses which, so many a Hollywood starlet or fashion icon has proved since, have their very own distinctive iconic and sexual allure.
In the next on our series on the history of accessories, reporter Anna McNamee was joined by the fashion writer and historian, Caroline Cox and Edwina Ehrman, a curator at the Museum of London to learn more about the origin of tinted eyeglasses.
