The Coolest Sunglasses in Shanghai

The weekend in Shanghai was one of the grayest and mankiest imaginable so here’s an inappropriate advert!!

Now Sunglass Hut is just about everywhere but still the Chinese Optical Company on the Nanking Road, at the corner of Lloyd Road (now Liuhe Road) seems very cool. Those are an exceptionally good pair of sunglasses I must say – I don’t care how much they are, I want them!! Apparently ‘Very Moderate Prices’. As this ad appeared in the winter of 1940 in the North-China Daily News I can only assume that Shanghailander posers, then as now, wore sunglasses in the mid-winter too!!