World days, 27 Jun 2027
National Sunglasses Day
A day in the United States, each 27 June, about protecting the eyes from the sun, and about sunglasses as style.
National Sunglasses Day is kept in the United States on 27 June, near the start of summer. It is promoted by the eyewear industry's trade body to remind people that the sun's ultraviolet light can harm the eyes and the thin skin around them, and that sunglasses should block it. It is also a day for the history of sunglass styles: the aviator, designed for pilots in the 1930s, the moulded plastic wayfarer of the 1950s, the cat-eye frame, and mirrored lenses.
Guides tied to National Sunglasses Day
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Sunglasses: Rich Niewiroski Jr., CC BY 2.5, source
- Aviator sunglasses: Paul Evans, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mirrored sunglasses: Elvert Barnes, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Wayfarer: Starman1984, CC BY-SA 3.0, source