Talk:Shutter shades
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According to Life, Venetian Blind Sunglasses were invented in 1950. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.190.189.199 (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
This may be so, but what did they look like? Where is the photographic/other evidence - reliable sources? How, if they were commercially released, did they compare to the 1980s fashion designs?
(213.122.75.165 (talk) 22:27, 16 April 2014 (UTC))
I have now seen a photograph of the 1950s design, and updated the article to reflect this. The 1950s and 1980s designs do differ somewhat and the popular style of today does seem more akin to the 1980s version in my opinion.
(213.122.75.165 (talk) 22:50, 16 April 2014 (UTC))
Link to 1950s and 1980s design photographs. Note that the 1950s wearer appears to be a mature woman. Was this is a youth fashion back then? http://shuttershades.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/venetian-blind-sunglasses-in-1950-then-1980-shutter-shades-2009/
(213.122.75.165 (talk) 22:57, 16 April 2014 (UTC))
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This should really be moved to "Venetian Blind sunglasses" with most of the references to shutter shades ripped out. It's a transparently obvious attempt to push someone's trademark. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:19, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
- In fact, looking at this link - which has a big chunk of Wikipedia lifted from it - was the page originally "slatted shades"? If it turns out that the page was moved to push readers towards a shopping site, it would be interesting to know if (a) a Wikipedia editor was paid to do this (b) why that person hasn't been formally censured. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:23, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, Ashley Pomeroy, the obviousness isn't transparent to me. In its original state, the article was straightforwardly about one brand of what I'll provisionally call glassless shades. (I'm not at all sure that these merited an article. But rightly or wrongly this is how the article was.) By contrast, the article is now a curious mongrel. It doesn't seem to know if it's about glassless shades in general or one brand thereof.
- I don't see any obvious significance for any one brand or design. I think that if en:Wikipedia has one article on glassless shades, then it should be about glassless shades in general.
- The article Sunglasses has a section about "Shutter Shades" (so capitalized). (The article seems in thrall to the fashion biz.)
- This article (currently "Shutter Shades") tells us that:
- Shutter Shades, also known as slatted shades or Venetian Blind shades are louvered sunglasses.
- Shutter Shades are a design of slatted sunglasses. The first louvered sunglasses. . . .
- Probed for shutter shades,slatted shades,louvered shades,Venetian blind shades, Google Ngram Viewer has not a single token of the first or fourth. It does have tokens of the second and third, but the first pageful of hits for each are obviously all about building/interior design and are not about things perched on the nose. Google Books does have hits for shutter sunglasses, slatted sunglasses, louvered sunglasses, Venetian blind sunglasses, each having the desired meaning.