A pair of sunglasses

A pair of Randolph aviators, bought from Opera Opera in Covent Garden, in 1991.

Why you should never go shopping with a bad hangover: part one.

“Now, where have I seen these before?” you’re thinking.  Of course: Don Draper’s sunglasses (actually, his are probably American Optical, because Randolph Engineering wasn’t founded until 1972; but I digress).  

When he wears them, they look cool, because the costume designer made sure he wore the right size; and because he’s Don Draper.  I, however, was nursing a bad case of acute alcoholic remorse, and got a pair that perch on my nose like blind widow’s pince-nez.  They just don’t work.  At all.