
1990s · 1990s · French
Production
mass-produced
Material
plastic and rubber
Culture
French
Movement
Rave / Club Kid
Yellow plastic protective goggles with black adjustable elastic strap and buckle closure system. The frames feature rounded rectangular lenses with thick yellow plastic borders, designed for impact protection. The black strap appears to be made of woven elastic material with plastic adjustment hardware. The construction shows typical 1990s sports equipment design with bold color blocking and functional geometric forms. The goggles represent the era's emphasis on technical sportswear that doubled as fashion accessories, reflecting the decade's growing athletic lifestyle culture.
These two pieces of eyewear capture the playful absurdism that defined 1990s club culture, where function bent to fantasy and everyday objects became costume. The tennis racket sunglasses, with their etched grid pattern mimicking actual racket strings, transform a sports implement into wearable irony—the kind of cheeky prop that club kids used to signal they were in on the joke.
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