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carry a small lens-case around with a bit of cleaning-fluid?

Just got offed, Friday, 8 June 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Dude, you're lucky I remembered to bring pants.

kenan, Friday, 8 June 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link

:-D

Just got offed, Friday, 8 June 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Eh, I love my (regular) glasses as well. No contacts for me. Then again I have only (re)started glasses about a half year ago? Sth like that.

Hurting, you look GREBT (w those sunglasses)!

stevienixed, Friday, 8 June 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I want some of those tinted contact lenses that the outfielders wear.

Pleasant Plains, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link

These are my sunglasses:
http://www.raybanaviatorsunglasses.com/images/Rayban/Optical/images/RB5063.jpg

They are prescription as I am blind. I must wear sunglasses outside b/c the sun and I are enemies.

Ms Misery, Friday, 8 June 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I rilly like the Nic Cage Wild At Heart metal-type wayfarers

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/wild_at_heart.jpg

But I fear they'd be v hard for me to get away with. 8/

W4LTER, Monday, 3 September 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link

I still cannot find any that are not a vise grip on my skull. No one will let me wear theirs for fear of ruination.

Ally I admit to stealing your look stolen from Unabomber but I just look like a prank Precious Moments parody. No worries?

Abbott, Monday, 3 September 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah i kind of broke my gf's sunglasses the other trying to put them on my fat head.

W4LTER, Monday, 3 September 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link

other day

W4LTER, Monday, 3 September 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Is some hipsterish (or even Hot Topicish) store selling the plastic framed wide sunglasses that have the little mirrored coating on the sides so you can see behind you? I had a pair when I was a kid that I got from sending in Rice Krispies box tops or something, but I think I saw half a dozen people with these this summer at concerts.

mh, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link

in the last two months, my sunglasses have survived being left in a trash can during an impressive thunderstorm and being run over more than once by an NYC subway

gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't own any sunglasses. Never really saw the need. My girlfriend wants a pair, but she claims that everything she tries on looks ridiculously huge and cartoonish. Notwithstanding the fact that her head is indeed rather small, I think that's sort of the style?

jaymc, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link

They might have 'em at a Halloween store or novelty joke store, mh. I don't know if there's a heavy influx of Halloween stores in your town; three showed up in a 10-square-mile area here in the past week.

Abbott, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link

four months pass...

RIP, pair of aviators that i had for 12 years. :(

i replaced them with... a new pair of aviators!

haitch, Sunday, 13 January 2008 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link

I got wayfarers for christmas
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j171/mdanielwalter/n825925121_2067654_6648.jpg

also a gingha beard

W4LTER, Sunday, 13 January 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

http://www.giarre.com/php/tmp/persol-sunglasses-2759s.jpg

remy bean, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link

my frames are the second pair, with lenses the color of the first pair, and they cost a boatload but are probably my favorite possession.

remy bean, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Rockin' the Wayfs this summer! Black frames, tempted to go with some clear ones, but that would be silly now.

Bodrick III, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Fuck Wayfarers especially in Zany® colours.

Ed, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link

I think girls can pull off the wacky colours. They're a design classic, I bet you won't see many people wearing snowboard-dude Oakleys in 30 years time.

Bodrick III, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link

You will see variations on all the generic Oakley designs, they just won't stand out because they're functional sunglasses more than fashionable.

That said, at the Coachella festival pretty much every other person was wearing some sort of wayfarer or wayfarer knockoff.

mh, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link

i just want a basic pair of classic ferris bueller style raybans but all i see are these dickhead xtreme sports ones or stunna shades or some old aviator bullshit.... where do i get a cheap pair of black plastic sunglasses???

and what, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link

are those persols up there? i want a pair of the brown tortoise shell fold ups .... $$$

jaime, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link

and what, you go to Wal-Mart or Family Dollar or Walgreen's or something.

Abbott, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link

I've seen cheapo plain Rayban knockoffs in H&M and Topman for less than £10. This is in the UK, tho.

xpost

Bodrick III, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link

ya aw like any gas station is gonna have an assortment of cheap typical shades

deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Lenses: polarized, or not? After some Oakleys but their current lens selections seem really dull; gold iridium might do but they're unpolarized.

standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Monday, 2 May 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

My first pair of non-cheapo sunglasses:

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9089/photo506.jpg

they're actually tortoise shell but for some reason it doesn't come through in photos

didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Saturday, 30 July 2011 05:05 (twelve years ago) link

That face! What brand are they?

Virginia Plain, Saturday, 30 July 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link

Ray Ban New Wayfarers

didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Saturday, 30 July 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link

Anyone have any experience with any of the following squarish-type aviators? I don't know if there are less expensive versions of these or whether any of them are suitable for prescription.

Ray-Ban Caravan
American Optical Original Pilot
Randolph Engineering Aviator
Randolph Engineering Intrder

LaMonte, Saturday, 30 July 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

these are kind of sweet. If I were a rock star they'd be on my list.

http://image.rb-sunglasses.com/daten/pimages/RB4125_646_17.png

calstars, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link

five years pass...

If you keep your sunglasses on all day, when you take them off at sunset you get an extra hour of light

calstars, Friday, 27 March 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

Should I pay $150 for some ray ban clubmasters or be be content with these cheap knockoffs?

calstars, Sunday, 12 July 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link

I lost the only pair of real Ray Bans I ever bought within a month. I’ve had several pairs of $10 sunglasses for 20 years.

Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 12 July 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link

you should rock the cheap pair. spend the money on something important, like beer or records

budo jeru, Sunday, 12 July 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link

I’ve also lost a pair of RBs that I had for like ten years, some aviators, in Central Park. Fuck

calstars, Sunday, 12 July 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link

i always lost cheap sunglasses. when i finally bought expensive ones it made me care about them enough that i never lost them. this strategy may not work for everyone.

call all destroyer, Monday, 13 July 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link

cheap sunglasses are not protective, better to squint

Dan S, Monday, 13 July 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

Rocking some $15 Caravans

calstars, Saturday, 24 September 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link

I have a pair of black Wayfairer Original Classics that I've had for 11 years. They are now several prescriptions old and don't have progressive lenses that I now need so I mostly wear them to play ultimate. Thinking of getting something new, but not sure what.

i need to put some clouds behind the reaper (PBKR), Sunday, 25 September 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link

My wife's theory is that the more you pay for your sunglasses, the less likely you are to lose them, but I suspect that shifts on a case by case basis. I do know that I love my Ray-Bans, which may be only the third pair of sunglasses I've ever owned. Because I did lose the previous ones (in very exotic locales!).

Though did I lose them? I know exactly where they are/were, they were just irretrievable, so I suppose not so much lost as lost, as in, "lost to the sea." I have a friend who used to own the exact same style of glasses as me who dropped them in a music festival porta-potty. He said for a split second he debated fishing them out somehow. That's the downside of paying more for glasses.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 September 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link

Has it been discussed here yet that, when ostentatiously checking out somebody who has just entered the room, whether it is cooler to lift one's sunglasses up, or down?

henry s, Sunday, 25 September 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

A sunny day almost spring and everyone is wearing sunglasses
Does everyone have them like perched somewhere by their front door for easy access for today?
Maybe I’m not in the routine or something

calstars, Saturday, 18 March 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link


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