Are aviator frame glasses a good choice?

Woman wearing glasses in a fashion context still is a rarely touched topic. In men its not that bad when they wear signature glasses, but for woman one of the safest advices seems to be preferring contact lens for most occasions. Anyway, I guess that there are more than a lot woman like me, who do not really have a love affair with contact lens or at least really don’t want to wear them permanently. So besides the discussion of trends in the field of bags and shoes and … I feel its high time to start a discussion about trends in the field of glasses!

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Jenna Lyons wearing Moscot Terry aviator frame glasses, picture https://de.pinterest.com/pin/344032859010266199/

While square shaped plastic frames, like the ever popular Ray Ban Wayfarer, have been around for some time aviator frame glasses seem to be an emerging trend. No matter whether its a plastic or metal frame the shape is on its way up.

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Metal aviator frame glasses worn by a fashion week attendee, picture style.com

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Lucy Chadwick, Gallery Director at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise wearing her signature metal aviator frame glasses, picture pinterest.com

Besides becoming more frequent in street style aviator frame glasses have been shown on the Gucci and Akris fall 2014 runway.

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Gucci showed aviator framed glasses for fall 2014, pic style.com

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Aviator framed glasses on the Akris fall 2014 runway, pic style.com

So streetstyle and runway seem to embrace the aviator framed glasses but what do you think? Do you think its too much of a statement or do you like the shape?