Once upon a time in my early twenties, I resided firmly in the camp of cheap sunglasses. I strongly believed that if I purchased myself a pair of nice ones, I'd lose them just as quickly as I do the plastic Forever 21 pairs that are scattered throughout my car at any given time. Truth be told, I probably would have - and did once, on a float trip a few years back. If you are now the proud owner of a pair of river-rescued folding wayfarers in tortoise, please be nice to them.
Now I am (the obviously super mature and adult age of) 25, and my main activity on sunny summer weekends doesn't involve nearly the quantity of alcohol it once did, so lo-and-behold! I am a person capable of owning a nice pair of sunglasses for as long as I please. Darrell, however, not so much. He is a prolific loser/breaker of sunglasses. Although I find that to be true of men in general, have you ever noticed how much more often they lose things than women do? And how often it's us that happens to find whatever's lost? So Darrell has one pair of nice sunglasses, and then he borrows from my embarrassingly large collection of Ray-Bans with close supervision. Sometimes, on occasion, Fitz borrows them as well.
I thought before it gets well into summer we'd all better get ourselves a new pair for 2014, and these are my picks! I already tracked down pair #3 on eBay last week, and I love them. Note though, that not all of these are Karen Walker-crazy expensive. Pairs four and six are from my favorite affordable eyewear site, Warby Parker. Darrell really needs a pair with prescription lenses since he doesn't often wear contacts, and since you can get these WITH the prescription for a ridiculously awesome price, I might trust him......might.
These particular pairs aren't available quite yet, they're part of a sneak peek of the summer line for Light Sleeper, Heavy Dreamer readers. For now I would definitely check out what they already have in store - you can request up to 5 trial pairs of glasses or sunglasses for free (yes, 100% free, including free shipping) to try on at home - just another reason they're so awesome.
I suppose that I'm in my late 20's, and I'm still in the camp of cheap sunglasses galore, but I'm ready to move onto something more quality and consistent! And that I'll be less likely to lose/break! I really like #2, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThose are some of my very favorites! Plus, they're totally unisex, so I share them with Darrell which makes them feel like less of a splurge.
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