Term for a type of sunglasses with a sort or inverted teardrop shape that cover the entire eye. Popularized by Vietnam-era helicopter pilots (who looked slick as shit)

sun glasses often woren by pilots hence the name aviators made popular by vietnam chopper pilots and police officers
aviators usually come in two sizes 52 mm lens and the big 75 mm lenses

very handy to have a pair of aviators at all times never know where and how and why you will need them but they always are useful

There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician, the other is an artist in love with flight.
- E.B. Jeppesen

the best freakin' sunglasses ever.

The most badass sunglasses money can buy. Guaranteed to piss of hippies and liberal pussies because of their military/cop heritage. Best worn at house parties late-night after consuming massive amounts of alcohol and feeling the "need for speed"... but also important at the beach the next day when trying to keep the sun off your aching head.
Oh, and chicks dig 'em.

A dashing and heroic personage! See pilot. A member of the elite company of the human race that can actually slip the surly bonds of Earth. They can fly, too.

Old fashioned aviators wear leather helmets and flight jackets and silk scarves and goggles. New fashioned ones fly Beechcraft Bonanzas while sipping cappuccino. Both are just a leetle bit cooler than the average groundling.

A very chill form of sunglasses popularized not so much by "vietnam-era helicoptor pilots" but by 70's stoners and modern stoner movies like "Dazed and Confused" and "Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas". The reason these glasses are so popular with stoners is that they are usually mirrored and cover your whole eye so that nobody can see your blood-shot eyes.