White Ray-Ban Wayfarer 5022 sunglasses with green B&L lenses are the original Wayfarer design, but you won't see many original white Ray-Ban Wayfarer 5022 sunglasses. Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses were first manufactured by Bausch & Lomb in 1952, when their design was a revolutionary break from the metal eyewear of the past. Wayfarers enjoyed early popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, especially after they were worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. Though the sunglasses had faded from the limelight by the 1970s, a lucrative 1982 product placement deal in the Blues Brothers movie with John Belushi brought Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses to their height of popularity. Wayfarers are usually cited as the best selling sunglass design in history and have been called a "classic of modern design" and "one of the most enduring fashion icons of the 20th century." During the 1950s and 1960s, celebrities including John Lennon, Bob Dylan, James Dean, John F. Kennedy, Roy Orbison, and Andy Warhol were all known for wearing Ray-Ban Wayfarers. Each B&L Ray-Ban G-15 anti-glare lens measures approximately 2.0" x 1.75" at the widest points, and each is laser etched BL near the hinges. These rare white Wayfarers are also marked B&L 5022 impressed in the frame above the rear of the right lens, and one ear stem is marked Wayfarer while the other stem is marked B&L Ray-Ban U.S.A.

Item VS026 / Price: $245.00

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