Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today. Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading much fashion and pop cultural imagery which has received little scholarly attention until now. Accessible and highly engaging, this book offers an original history of how sunglasses became a fashion accessory in the early twentieth century, and addresses the complex variety of meanings they have the power to articulate, through associations with vision, light, glamour, darkness, fashion, speed and technology in the context of modernity. Cool Shades will be of great interest to students of fashion, design, visual and material culture, cultural studies and sociology, as well as general readers fascinated by this iconic fashion staple.

A tastefully risque novel that is provoking and not for the faint of heart... Tattered Ink is a gripping, engaging, non-stop intoxicating novel about devastating disgraces. The relentless fiction novel revolves around a life-shattering event that takes Jessie, a young fifteen year old girl through alarming and unwittingly suffering. Jessie is unaware of the history behind the turmoil that her deceased mother endured and is now forced to abide in the lifestyle that she thinks she must carry on. Her malevolent father Alex appeased his mind by pressuring his cruel and unwanted ways onto Jessie; he is virulent as a venomous snake lurking after its prey. Making peace with her choices she finds a little bit of hope in a tattoo shop where she is appreciated; yet Jessie has to unravel the connections and fight to change her reputed lifestyle. The tragedy of her life was her death, even though she fought to live.

An attention starving Stephanie Ryan is a woman who must put her ex-lover and his antics behind her. Comforting herself through eating, she finds a lover who strongly resembles her favorite treat white chocolate.

"Cool Shades" provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today. Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading much fashion and pop cultural imagery which has received little scholarly attention until now.Accessible and highly engaging, this book offers an original history of how sunglasses became a fashion accessory in the early twentieth century, and addresses the complex variety of meanings they have the power to articulate, through associations with vision, light, glamour, darkness, fashion, speed and technology in the context of modernity."Cool Shades" will be of great interest to students of fashion, design, visual and material culture, cultural studies and sociology, as well as general readers fascinated by this iconic fashion staple.