007 Item: Ray-Ban Wayfarers sunglasses

007 Item: Ray-Ban Wayfarers sunglasses

007 Book appearance: "High Time to Kill" (1999)
007 Film appearance: "Licence to Kill" (1989). (Villain Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) wears Ray-Ban Wayfarers)

Robert Davi (Franz Sanchez)
wearing Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses in
"Licence to Kill" (1989)
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

"It was nearly two o'clock. Bond put a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers sunglasses that would identify him to his contact, then walked southwest through the colorful and narrow cobblestoned streets to the intersection of Rue du Chêne and Rue de l'Étuve. There, surrounded by camera-snapping tourists, was the famous statue of the urinating little boy known as Manneken-Pis. Although not the original statue (which was subject to vandalism and was removed), the current idol is an exact replica and is perhaps the most well known symbol of Brussels. Bond didn't know what its origins were, but he knew that it dated from the early 1400s and was perhaps the effigy of a patriotic Belgian lad who sprinkled a hated Spanish sentry who had passed beneath his window. Another story was that he had saved the Town Hall from a small fire by extinguishing it using only means available. Today, "Little Julian," as he is called, was dressed in a strange red cloak with a little fur collar. Louis XV of France began the tradition of presenting colorful costumes to the little boy and since then he has acquired hundred of outfits."

Raymond Benson: "High Time to Kill" (1999)


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