Steampunk goggles vintage

The vintage steampunk glasses are round party glasses with a brown mottled tortoiseshell frame and brown lenses that flip up, leaving clear lenses exposed.

Wear them to a Victorian-themed party where ladies and gentlemen give their costumes a retro-industrial look. On the dance floor, flip up the tinted lenses and simply look through the clear glass, and for a photo or entrance, lower them again.

How does the flip mechanism of the vintage glasses work?

The vintage steampunk glasses have lenses attached to a thin metal rod above the lenses, allowing you to flip them up or lower them over the clear lenses.

• The round frame has a tortoiseshell pattern with light and dark brown patches.
• The brown tinted flip lenses are each set in a thin gold-colored rim.
• Underneath the flip lenses are clear lenses, so you can also look through the glasses with the lenses flipped up.
• On the outside of both hinges is a small metal decorative plate.
• The material is 50% polycarbonate, 35% polymethyl methacrylate, and 10% copper.
• The glasses are intended for women and men.

Round flip lenses and nineteenth-century retrofuturism

This style depicts a nineteenth century in which steam engines determine the future, with copper, brass, gears, and leather as staple materials. Round glasses and protective dust goggles are part of this as a reference to inventors, pilots, and machinists from that era. What sets these flip glasses apart from ordinary round party glasses is the double layer of glass: flipped up, they look like old-fashioned reading glasses, flipped down like tinted sunglasses, so choose them if you want to switch between those two looks during the party.

Wearing the flip glasses on a Victorian party evening

Brown and burgundy fabrics, a lace jabot, and a brooch with gears complement the mottled brown frame beautifully. If you want to showcase the glasses as the main accessory, leave the flip lenses up so that the gold-colored rims stand out above your eyes. Men wear them with a vest and pocket watch and a top hat, and those participating in a parade simply keep the tinted lenses down outdoors.

Order the vintage steampunk glasses and complete your Victorian party outfit with glasses that can be worn in two ways.