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Is The New Dec 2, 2008 @ 9:33am

Is the New: Clubmasters and Wayfarers

by Natalie Hormilla

ray ban clubmasters.jpgThe next logical step from Ray-Ban, via WWD this morning:

Following the success of the Wayfarers revival (so successful we’re sick of them), Ray-Ban’s reintroducing another oldie/goodie from their archive, the Clubmasters, from the golden year of 1986, already recently spotted on the likes of Agyness and Rachel Bilson.

The style will get six new bright colors added to its repertoire (in addition to classic black and tortoise), launching at a small concert at the Bowery Ballroom on December 9th.

Each pair will retail for $129. But if you can’t wait (and feel like this season’s sales need to be respected), you could throw a pair onto your Amazon holiday order for $99 - that is, of course, if you won’t want to flick them off people’s faces by New Year’s.

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posted by guest

Dec 02, 2008 1:11PM

i have these in the tortoiseshell...they're so chic!

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posted by guest

Dec 02, 2008 1:17PM

urban outfitter's have done a cheap copy of them since the whole Wayfarers revival. i heard sum1 call them wayviatars as they sort of look like a cross between aviaters and wayfarers i suppose ish.
so god this trend better not start again
espicialy seein dior homme had amazing sunglases that could replace this hideousely boring trend:(

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posted by guest

Dec 02, 2008 1:19PM

Hehehe... a whole trend of people looking like Claire's dad from 'Heroes'. I could enjoy this for the unintentional humor, if nothing else.

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posted by guest

Dec 02, 2008 3:31PM

have and love them even if they are the next hipster craze. i say as long as they actually look good on you, it doesn't matter how many ugly people have them!

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posted by cesarcmma

Dec 02, 2008 9:34PM

argh they're awesome and all but bright colors? no thanks you

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posted by guest

Dec 03, 2008 12:18AM

Seriously - you're commenting on this now? Clubmasters have been spotted for at least the past six months, I think best sported by Yasmin Sewell. TFS has head a trendspotting thread on them for awhile as well...

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posted by themidwasteland

Dec 03, 2008 2:28AM

In agreement with 6. I wrote about the clubmaster back in July.

http://themidwasteland.com/style-pile/latest-obsession-ray-ban-clubmaster

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posted by guest

Dec 03, 2008 7:14PM

This was bound to happen. I read a quote about hipsters once that said that they "fetishize the traditional." I thought that it was a really great way of expressing how the hipster trends work and if they are fetishizing the traditional, the traditional will eventually become traditional and mainstream again. My dad has worn ray bans his whole life, and believe me he's not stylish. The hipsters take these old staples and make them fresh. The sorority girls and business men are just taking back what's theirs. I am neither a southern sorority or a hipster but I love them because they are so chic and flattering (or because I am a shameless Kate Moss copy-cat).

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