If you’re a fan of disposable fashion and you like your trends to change with your moods, then you’ll be stocking up on lashings of Eighties inspired coloured accessories. Now it’s all very well to be of the moment, but what if you feel like investing in a classic? Think of your style personality before you decide and you’ll have a look to last a lifetime!

There are three classic sunnie shapes that have been around for over fifty years and have stood the test of time. Always in fashion, whatever the year or even the decade!

Jackie O – Sophisticated and Grown up – This is the Charlotte York look if you’re a SATC fan, grown up, chic, stylish. Usually black plastic, a huge round frame with a very dark lens and minimal or no detail. Looks good for driving or beach wear, and useful for concealing all ills after a good night out! This will suit you if you like Victoria Beckham’s look, a frame for lady-like dressing up.

Jackie O Sunglasses

Wayfarer – Unisex, trendy, and a touch quirky – a plastic frame in the classic Blue’s Brothers shape, with a square top rim and sweep across the cheeks. Again, usually black, or the wildly different tortoiseshell for real rebels! This will be perfect if you’re channelling Kate Moss or Alexa Chung, a look for Indie girls. Avoid it if you have a tiny nose, they can rest on your face.

Aviator – Now more for the girls than the boys – big, blinging and the more oversized the better. Traditionally a men’s frame, this has now been totally adopted by women, and looks good for casual wear. The large teardrop shape is fashionable and practical, the lens area giving good sun protection. It’s quite a beach babe look, so if Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Anniston are your style icons, then go with the Aviator.

Styles that have had fashion staying power for half a century will surely be sticking around for some time to come, so invest and you don’t have to make another sunnie descision for the next fifty years!