For the majority of people around the world aviator sunglasses from SelectSpecs are worn for their fashion and style benefitsrather than anything relating to the health of your eyes. Your eyes are one of the most delicate areas of your body and can easily be damaged by strong UV rays that come from the sun. It is something we all know but not staring at the sun will help prevent your eyes becoming damaged. Although you might find that in bright conditions with reflective surfaces the effect could be similar.
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Lucky enough to wear glasses? The College of Optometrists, London, has studied people’s attitudes on glasses wearing adults and has concluded that people believe bespectacled would-be employees look better for the job than their clear-sighted fellows. Apparently, 43% of adults surveyed believe that a person looks more intelligent if they’re wearing glasses or designer glasses. A similarly high 36% believed that glasses made candidates look more ‘professional’. Whether people in the position of responsibility, who actually hand out the jobs would follow the same foolish logic is open for debate. But perhaps these views in the general population are worthy of attention for those of us trying to negotiate an existence between the malnourished jobs market at the undifferentiated workforce.
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Although sunglasses, or at least glasses with dark lenses, had been around since the Victorian era it wasn’t until 1937 when Ray Ban Sunglasses developed the Aviator sunglasses that they began being worn as a fashion accessory. Their history is interesting, Designed as practical equipment for pilots they cover the whole of the eye socket meaning that sunlight and glare from the peripheries of the wearers field of vision rather than directly where the wearer is looking. Because Hollywood actors had to fly around a lot thanks to their shooting schedules and promotional tours taking them all over America they noted the practicality of the glasses and that it would help them on set where arc lights that were required for shooting when there wasn’t enough natural light. The glasses then started to appear in movie magazines as the stars were shot on and off set wearing them. The mystique of the stylish design that covered nearly half of the face and endorsed by the stars during a time when celebrity still meant that the star was a folk hero who engendered legends made them immediately cool.
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Cause a lot of times they look very similar. Is there even a specific gender they make them for?
Men's sunglasses usually have a label that says men
manufacturers would have us believe there is a difference..but possibly not.
no special gender just sunglasses are sunglasses they usually have a sign above them saying kids women and men sunglasses they got different categories
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I messed up my Ray Ban sunglasses while playing at the volleyball at the beach. Can Sunglass Hut (Where I purchased them) fix them?
Can sunglass hut fix my crooked glasses?
Seven years after striking up a partnership, Ducati and Oakley are still happy with their relationship and continue to produce what they call high performance eye wear.
Recently the two companies have announced a new range of Oakley Sunglasses and it comes with Ducati and MotoGP endorsement. It might not be the most earth shattering news, but there was something brand dev director Lucio Attina said that gave us an idea. Continue Reading »
they usually come in bright colors and instead of a lens there are bars of the same material used in the glasses them self (name please) thanks 
what are the big sunglasses with stripes in the front instead of a lens?
I just purchased a pair of Oakley Juliette glasses on E-bay and I was checking to see if I got a good deal and I came across another similar pair of glasses named the Romeo. Did I just purchase a 200 dollar pair of women’s sunglasses?
Are Oakley’s Juliette sunglasses made for women, as opposed to the Oakley Romeos?
An enormous amount of people wear glasses in the UK and abroad, and whilst for some they remain a necessity, for many they’re an in-style fashion accessory. With summer 2010 pretty much here, many people are now looking for that on-season look for the summer, and your glasses can be a big part of that.
To that end, here’s a guide to the many different colours of prescription glasses and frames available to buy, to suit your complexion. Continue Reading »
I am almost nauseous while wearing them, they told me to keep trying them, shouldn’t I be able to at least read in them to begin with? I hope they let me take them back
I got 2 pair of glasses at Lenscrafters, sunglasses and regular, progressive bifocal, cant read in them?