Sunglasses

http://www.woz.org/US/USPhotos_OM/images/Flock%20Of%20Seagulls.jpg

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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?

i wear them. they are classic.

I hate the prescription sunglasses I got a few years ago...small frames, wtf was I thinking.

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

I want yellow-to-amber sunglasses for the road. Where's a good place to look? Like RH, they gotta be available in prescription.

Droone, you must wear the moustache with them too.

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.

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.

I'm a Persol kinda guy. My current pair:

http://www.eyewear.com/images/thumbnails/43397main_px150.jpg

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.

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

lets all hear it

ENBB IS SO HOTT

im talkin pepperoni pizza HOTT

ronan & baaderonix are pathetic.

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you just don't add up. get over it.

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.

(ENBB is hott though.)

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.

you just don't add up. get over it.

yeah you're right, I should be hitting on people on the net like you, you creep.

Ronan, those sunnies are great dude.

http://www.ilxor.com/neil.jpg

awesome.

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

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

:-D

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)!

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

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.

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/

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?

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

other day

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

also a gingha beard

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

http://www.designersunglasses.net/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/persol_2759_lg.jpg

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.

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

Fuck Wayfarers especially in Zany® colours.

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.

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.

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???

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

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

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

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

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

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

That face! What brand are they?

Ray Ban New Wayfarers

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

cheap sunglasses are not protective, better to squint

Rocking some $15 Caravans

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.

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.

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?

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