Sunglasses

i had some but i lost them before i wore them

One of my ears is 1cm higher than the other, so sunglasses look wonky on me (or look straight but the arm hovers 1cm above my right ear.) Hence I have never worn them. I wear hats, pulled down low over the eyes. However, learning how to drive has made me realise I need some. And which to get? I am clueless. Will people laugh at me if I wear cheap £5 ones from Oxford Street? Are those racks unisex, or have I been trying on girl's glasses? Black? Brown? Metal rims? No rims? Big, yes, but how big? (I have a VERY small head.)

Aghrr. It's a whole world of taste and distinction that I had previously given no thought to

i never realised people put such thought into wearing sunglasses

get massive ones Jamie. as big as possible.

Nor did I, until I decided I should get some. I'm terrified.

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Are you sure? My head really is small.

i almost never wear sunglasses, pretty much only when i'm driving. this is dumb, because my eyes are way sensitive to bright light, and may-septembet i'm pretty much walking around outdoors with my eyes screwed as tight as they can be without actually being closed. this is why my youthful good looks will soon expire. i just can't do it, though. there's something about sunglasses, deep down in my psyche, that i equate with 'flashness' i'm not really comfortable with. i think other people look great in sunglasses, but i have this crazy thing where, when i wear em, i feel like i look like i'm trying to be 'cool'. i am insane.

i remember my primary school teacher had her sunglasses stolen by a pupil (hello south london) and she flew into this crazy rage, screaming "i needed those because of my hay fever". but i didn't really know what the word "fever" meant, beyond the movie "saturday night fever", and assumed she was angry because she wanted to wear her sunglasses to a disco.

These are the first sunglasses I've owned in many years:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/456169477_ed3b0f8d1f.jpg?v=0

They're kind of your standard issue frat boy sunglasses right now but I think they look ok on me.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/72/039_31619~ZZ-Top-Posters.jpg

sunglASSES

sungLASSES, to be less crude...

I can't wear sunglasses because I have regular glasses. Although I think I may look into this look:

http://www.thesportstruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/kadeem-hardison-as-dwayne-wayne.jpg

contact lenses, dude, it's what i did!

i have very fetching ray-bans (bought by my dad when he went to new york), but no camera handy :(

No, I like glasses, I hate the maintenance of contact lenses. I need to be able to pass out at any time, at a moment's notice, with impunity.

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

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.