Hallie Abrams breaks down the runway trend of wearing sunglasses or reading glasses on a chain, called a Y necklace. Unlike older clip-on styles, the chain works as both practical accessory and deliberate fashion statement. She's been wearing one herself and says it looks intentional and cool.
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One of the things that we saw on the runway that I'm not gonna buy, but I'm gonna sort of jimmy-rig for myself, is the idea of having a chain that you're putting your glasses on. People were doing it, they were showing it like crossbody, they were showing it all over the place. I love this Y necklace. You can make it, you can double it, you can do a lot of things with it. But the idea of carrying, whether it's your sunglasses or your readers on a necklace, as opposed to, you know, for years we had the ones that like clipped here and they would hang, but then I don't know, it just got like floppy. Where this, I feel like a little bit becomes part of the outfit, and I don't know, I'm here for it. I'm here for it. I've been doing it a bit, and it's— I think I've sort of done it for a while, to be honest. Maybe they're copying me. I don't know, but it's, it's very handy, and it makes it look like cool and intentional.