Sunglasses?

Only Human · 10-05-2005 3:52pm #1

Do you like sunglasses?

simu · 10-05-2005 4:00pm

Yes, those massive ones especially.

Only Human · 10-05-2005 4:04pm

simu wrote:

Yes, those massive ones especially.

Aviators?

You gotta' love 'em.

kjt · 10-05-2005 4:09pm

Yup I love em, but they have to be a really nice pair.
Modern and slick. My girlfriend got me a pair of oakley
for my birthday, VERY expensive but I love em

blondie83 · 10-05-2005 4:11pm

I love sun glasses - I collect them the way some women collect handbags/shoes! If I see a pair I like I'll buy them, never care about the price though, I have pairs that cost loads, and other pairs I got as cheap as €2!

kenmc · 10-05-2005 4:12pm

Oakleys are great. Have a pair since '99 now - still in great nick.
Leave them in the car for driving, also take them boarding and sometimes cycling, have a pair of Hot Buttered for cycling to work.
edit:
wouldn't trust a cheap pair-they're supposed to keep UV out - not sure the cheap ones do that - may end up wrecking your eyes.

mayordenis · 10-05-2005 4:13pm

If they are made by oakley then yes i love sunglasses.
bought 2 of the same pair last year cause the first ones got mangled but it was my own fault.

OfflerCrocGod · 10-05-2005 6:04pm

Yes, but I'd never wear a pair as they don't suit me.

paulcr · 10-05-2005 6:07pm

I owe a pair of Maui Jim...love em.

b3t4 · 10-05-2005 7:09pm

I've to go looking for sun glasses. I've been told to go for polarized ones or something to that effect. I'm finding it hard to come across them. People/shops appear to only sell ones that look well over functioning well. Surely I can get sun glasses that look well and function well and not for a huge sum of money.

I am only a novice in this field so if ye guru's could plese give me some tips on what I should look for it'd be great

A.

mentalimplosion · 10-05-2005 7:10pm

i love big huge ones... dirt cheap ones especially.... my favourites i got from a dodgy looking guy in venice who knocked down the price because i'm irish.... i would some day like to own the huge square ones, particularly by dior or chanel, made popular by nicole richie on the simple life

Only Human · 10-05-2005 7:15pm

b3t4 wrote:

I've to go looking for sun glasses. I've been told to go for polarized ones or something to that effect. I'm finding it hard to come across them. People/shops appear to only sell ones that look well over functioning well. Surely I can get sun glasses that look well and function well and not for a huge sum of money.

I am only a novice in this field so if ye guru's could plese give me some tips on what I should look for it'd be great

A.

Theres a sunglasses shop in St.Stephens Green shopping centre. Its primarily designer (€80+) makes and there aren't alot of the aviator/police style glasses that you're looking for. They have Aviators in the upstairs men's section of pennys on O'connel street (€1-3, fairly cheap but they do the job). River Island have sunglasses for about €20. There is another palace across the road called Jack Johnes which have nice smoke mirrored Aviators and black mirrored aviators for about €17. They're good quality glasses aswell. The other option is to buy online.

deRanged · 10-05-2005 7:17pm

b3t4 wrote:

People/shops appear to only sell ones that look well over functioning well.

An optician will sell you a decent pair with UVA and UVB and so on.

I wear Maui Jims, current pair cost about 200 euro and I've a new pair on order that will cost 140 odd.
They're well worth it imo.

b3t4 · 10-05-2005 7:22pm

Thanks deRanged but I have absolutely no intensions of paying that much for a pair of sun glasses. I was thinking more in the lines of < €50. Am I expecting too much for that price?

A.

deRanged · 10-05-2005 9:51pm

Not at all - you'll get a perfectly good pair of sunglasses for that. (probably for 20-30 euro).
I'd still say to try an opticians though - they'll be able to explain
about UVA and so on.

b3t4 · 10-05-2005 10:12pm

deRanged wrote:

Not at all - you'll get a perfectly good pair of sunglasses for that. (probably for 20-30 euro).
I'd still say to try an opticians though - they'll be able to explain
about UVA and so on.

Thanks again

A.

snappieT · 10-05-2005 10:22pm

I like sunglasses to a degree where I went and spent €150 on DKNY ones last weekend. They are one of the few accessories guys can get away with - might as well make them memorable.

daveirl · 11-05-2005 5:57pm

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Karl Hungus · 11-05-2005 6:43pm

I badly need a new pair of sunglasses myself. Those Aviator ones are certainly the business though.

peterk19 · 12-05-2005 2:06pm

yea love the Aviators was looking or Giorgio Armani ones in Brown Thomas today replicas of the ones from the movie might get them this evening
Pete

irlirishkev · 12-05-2005 2:35pm

I like sunglasses. I picked up a pair of Polaroids in Next the other day. Essential for driving. Having said that though, I won't pay more than 20euro on a pair. Why? I'll lose or break them.

Last pair I had, I left on the cistern of a toilet in Germany, and the pair before that, I sat on.

K.

Velvet Vocals · 12-05-2005 4:01pm

I have to say I have a great collection of sun glasses. My mum lives in Milan and everytime I go over I pick up a new pair.
I have a great pair of dolce & gabbana's that I got this Christmas, very Jackie O!

Anton17 · 13-05-2005 10:57am

Ray-Bans Wayfarers are the coolest sunglasses ever, they're in every 80's video and film. I absolutely hate oakley sunglasses they're the ugliest things.
In terms of sunglasses on women, those huge white Christian Dior ones look the business

mentalimplosion · 13-05-2005 1:31pm

wayfarers are the absolute shizzle. absolute. shizzle. mainly because of don henley's boys of summer.

Anton17 · 13-05-2005 2:26pm

I bought a great pair on ebay for less than a tenner including postage. We should start a revival. 2005 could be the summer of wayfarers.

Only Human · 13-05-2005 5:10pm

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:cool: Tbh

Eve e · 13-05-2005 6:59pm

Price doesnt affect the quality of sunglasses, as long as there UV400 they will protect your eyes.

deRanged · 13-05-2005 7:52pm

Eve e wrote:

Price doesnt affect the quality of sunglasses,

I beg to differ. Get yourself a decent pair and compare them to a cheap pair and tell me there's no difference.

b3t4 · 13-05-2005 11:03pm

Another thing I meant to ask...

Can one really trust those stickers that are put on sun glasses on stands?

A.

Eve e · 14-05-2005 11:21am

deRanged wrote:

I beg to differ. Get yourself a decent pair and compare them to a cheap pair and tell me there's no difference.

Yes too true, I bought a cheap pair in the pound shop last summer and they burnt my left retina out,a mistake I WONT be making again.

FX Meister · 14-05-2005 11:12pm

I had a really nice pair of Ray-Bans until I left them in a careful spot while rock climbing one day. Came across some loose rock and thought I better get rid of it in case it might injure anyone so threw it off the route out of the way. And as luck would have it I threw it right where I had forgotten I left my sunnys. On the hunt for a new pair but I don't want to get ripped off here. Does anyone know any place good online? I don't want to try ebay as there's probably tons of fakes on there and you can't trust their feedback system anyway.

Lord Nikon · 16-05-2005 5:35pm

kjt wrote:

My girlfriend got me a pair of oakley
for my birthday, VERY expensive but I love em

Hey so did mine.

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