Topic: What sunglasses do you wear while driving?

[rrocket]

I'll go first:

"Verona" Serengeti Drivers from the Sport Classic line.  These have the Drivers polarizing lense.

18% transmittance when the lenses are lightened, 10% when darkened.

[wing]

For racing I run contacts with my ray bans, for regular driving I wear prescription glasses.  A lot of the time I don't bother since I am not affected by the bright sun that much.

[rrocket]

For racing I run contacts with my ray bans, for regular driving I wear prescription glasses.  A lot of the time I don't bother since I am not affected by the bright sun that much.

As you know..I'm like a vampire and only come out at night.  I'm sensitive to the sunlight. 

[tpl]

I wear glasses made with a very high index glass which cannot have the light sensitive layer in it and as the lenses are about $500 a pair I am not going to get two pairs just to get a surface tint.

I have clip-on sunglasses  but they cause all kinds of reflections  from the extra set of glass/air interfaces.  So I just do without until they make high index plastic for (relatively) cheap lenses.

I have done and can comfortably wear hard contacts  but then I end up carrying sunglasses and reading glasses which is too much bother.

[wing]

tpl have you checked clearlycontacts.ca ?  I have a very high index lense and very high prescription got mine there $100 .  Even my progressive lenses were only $120 including frames and 1.72 index lenses!

I was quoted $800 locally!

[TopGun]

Prescription Oakley's...kinda like these

I'm in Rrocket's vampire club...and I like how these wrap around a little bit.

[rrocket]

I'm in Rrocket's vampire club.

I think I'm whiter than you though...LOL.  My skin looks like "freezer chicken" in Import Queen's mom's words. LOL  I have to take 10,000IU of Vitamin D a day I see so little sun light...

[Triple Bob]

Arnettes with polarising lenses.

[The Mighty Duck]

I have a pair of prescription sunglasses from Lenscrafters. They were cheap, but they do the job.

[Ex-airbalancer]

Maul Jim glasses

[Flinter]

Ray-Ban Predator 2 for me.... driving and everything else.
Lens: Polarized Brown
Frame: Tortoise

[tpl]

tpl have you checked clearlycontacts.ca ?  I have a very high index lense and very high prescription got mine there $100 .  Even my progressive lenses were only $120 including frames and 1.72 index lenses!

I was quoted $800 locally!

The glass in my specs is 1.8 In my prescription the difference between 1.8 and 1.7 is noticeable in weight of lens unless one has these very small trendy frames and then they can't be progressive bifocal...

[wing]

Well if it is just sunglasses then you can live with the heavier lenses no?

I wish mine weren't 1/2" thick haha

[rrocket]

Well if it is just sunglasses then you can live with the heavier lenses no?

I wish mine weren't 1/2" thick haha

Are your eyes that bad?

[wing]

Yes +5.5

[mrthompson]

I wear contact lenses, so my sunglasses are $19.99 Rapala polarized jobbies I bought last year at Crappy Tire. 

[Angry Chicken]

Columbia "Morgan Point" sunglasses.  Brown tint and tortoiseshell frames.  Polarized lenses and 100% UV protection.  Use 'em for biking and driving!

[Brig]

Well if it is just sunglasses then you can live with the heavier lenses no?

I wish mine weren't 1/2" thick haha

Aren't you a good candidate for laser eye surgery, then? 

[rrocket]

Well if it is just sunglasses then you can live with the heavier lenses no?

I wish mine weren't 1/2" thick haha

Aren't you a good candidate for laser eye surgery, then? 

Or a white cane and a seeing eye dog?

[johngenx]

I have a pair of Byblos sunglasses I bought on October 3, 1996.  13.5 years later, I wear the same pair.  They look a lot like these, except the frames are a bright gold...

http://www.klasik.org/sunglasses/w8090/jpegs/p3/k9469a.jpg

Why do I remember the date?  I stopped by the opticians on the way home from work, and when I got home, the phone was ringing.  It was the day my Mom told me she had cancer.

They're super comfy, though out of style.