― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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I just bought these but in brown. Hopefully I look as cool as this bro. http://www.klasik.org/jpegs/satisfied%20customers/wcp1/walter2.jpg
Also, I see a lot of the kids wearing wayfarers these days. Is this a good or a bad thing?
― Drooone, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 01:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i wear them. they are classic.
― lfam, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate the prescription sunglasses I got a few years ago...small frames, wtf was I thinking.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I tried the wayfarers but they looked horrible on me. I can't be trusted with expensive sunglasses because I lose them. Current favorites are $10 Target specials - dark red, round, and on the large side like so:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/IMG_1254-1.jpg
― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I want yellow-to-amber sunglasses for the road. Where's a good place to look? Like RH, they gotta be available in prescription.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Droone, you must wear the moustache with them too.
― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I found a pair of mirrored Aviators at Leeds festival last year and they're amazing. They make me look like goose from Top Gun.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 07:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I am a combination of ENBB and Rock Hardy. I bought expensive, really nice, prescription sunglasses two summers in a row and lost them within weeks of getting them. Now I have a pair of regular glasses converted into sunglasses but I hate them and never wear them because they're small and look more like medically-tinted glasses than stylish sunglasses. Rubbish.
― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 07:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm a Persol kinda guy. My current pair:
http://www.eyewear.com/images/thumbnails/43397main_px150.jpg
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 09:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I also have a pair of large Rayban aviators. I tire of them though. That's why I went with the slightly different (and smaller) caravans.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I have Marc Jacobs aviators, sadly they don't block the wind as this pic shows!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/205/505661037_a9ec30379d.jpg
― Ronan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
lets all hear it
ENBB IS SO HOTT
― deeznuts, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
im talkin pepperoni pizza HOTT
― deeznuts, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
ronan & baaderonix are pathetic.
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― Ronan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
you just don't add up. get over it.
― deeznuts, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Deeznuts, I'm gonna say it cause you can't see it, as I'm wearing my Miu Miu sunglasses, I'm rolling my eyes.
― stevienixed, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
(ENBB is hott though.)
― stevienixed, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link
baader's & ronans' glasses are HOTTT. I love aviators but they make me look like Count Chubulon.
I've got bangs to my eyebrows and a really round face so most any pair of non-lennon sunglasses make me look like a dome of Shelley Duvall hair+a black field+a semicircle of skin. Plus it's hard to find sunglasses that don't squish my big head. So forever I will squint.
― Abbott, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah you're right, I should be hitting on people on the net like you, you creep.
― Ronan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Ronan, those sunnies are great dude.
― Drooone, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/neil.jpg
― Keith, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome.
― Drooone, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
hey ronan, just admit that youre a sad pathetic loser who wont ever win at life. we'll just agree to be 'friends' you poor pathetic fucker.
meanwhile ill hit on the hott chicks & you can continue to be a pathetic asshole who probably supports sinn fein, which everyone knows is racist except apparently you. bye jerk.
btw harrison ford kicks your ass and will embarrass you goodbye
― deeznuts, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
This is me wearing my favorite pair of sunglasses.
http://a657.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/38/l_35701d42292c21872705ab2fd1e8f670.jpg
― Aja, Thursday, 7 June 2007 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Deeznuts, what the fuck man.
― stevienixed, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
to be fair to deeznuts, i think he has something of a point, and its about time someone had the balls to say it
― 696, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/210013649_758c59ad9b.jpg
― Ed, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost Yes, especially on a thread about sunglasses. I'm very sure that Ronan is now crying on his pillow and that his mummy needs to comfort him because some twit on the net has been so candid about his views on Ronan, a guy he knows so little about.
― stevienixed, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Can I just point out that Ed rules? kthxbye.
― StanM, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't wear my sunglasses anymore. If I did, I'd see fuckall. :-(
― stevienixed, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
ENBB is gorgeous yes, and I think I've just figured out who she reminds me of:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pigasuspress/photos/jolumley.jpg
― Mark C, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
So we all know what she's got to look forward to.
― Mark C, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39293000/jpg/_39293301_vodka203.jpg
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
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
http://www.giarre.com/php/tmp/persol-sunglasses-2759s.jpg
― remy bean, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.designersunglasses.net/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/persol_2759_lg.jpg
― remy bean, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:08 (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
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
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 CaravanAmerican Optical Original PilotRandolph Engineering AviatorRandolph Engineering Intrder
― LaMonte, Saturday, 30 July 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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
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
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
A sunny day almost spring and everyone is wearing sunglassesDoes 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