Trinidadian Olympian Ato Boldon weighs in on the Oakley shades that have captured the eyes of vintage dealers and Kerwin Frost.
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Swedish golfer Jarmo Sandelin of Sweden wears Oakley’s OVERTHETOPS at a competition in Denmark in 2018.It makes sense for athletes like Boldon and the Swedish golfer Jarmo Sandelin to wear the pair, but the glasses have also become a hit in the fashion world recently. This past week, street style sensation and talk-show host Kerwin Frost recently wore a pair on my Instagram show,, that he was debating getting rid of.
Boldon agrees. When he wore them to the Olympics, commentators called the glasses space-age eyewear. Boldon had been friends with both a rep for Oakley and the company’s founder, James Jannard, who talked to Boldon about wearing glasses. Olympians can’t show sponsors on their uniforms, but, according to Boldon, they can wear what they want on their face—which he refers to as “prime real estate.
He compares Oakley’s cyborg shades to a car company. “They aren’t mainstream, but that is kind of the point. A car company will build typical cars for their normal consumers, and then they’ll build a prototype to show what they can do,” says Boldon. “This was Oakley showing a glimpse of what they can do.”
Boldon gave both of his original pairs away to his cousin and uncle, but his Overthetop sunglasses live on in the digital world. “It has been 21 years, and every day on my social media, I see a picture of myself [wearing them],” he says. Tips on how to get the look? According to Boldon, it’s all in the attitude. “You have to be confident,” he says. “It’s not like someone is going to put them on to go to soccer practice. They command attention.
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