With these on our face, we’re convinced we’d win a table at the most overbooked and exclusive restaurant in town without even having to ask. Sunglasses come in endless styles and pretty much every colour under the sun, from updates on timeless classics to colourful and playful takes on standard silhouettes. You’ve got oversized frames for statement-making style, aviators for Top Gun-inspired glamour, and whimsical retro creations that make us feel instantly more alluring. Wayfarers, Clubmasters, New Wayfarers, and other styles are all available as prescription sunglasses. Another design born in the 1960s, the Olympian sunglasses are sleek and sophisticated, as at home with a dark suit as they are with a bathing suit and dripping with midcentury panache.
Available in six colorways, these shades boast nylon frames — flexible, lightweight — and draw inspiration from the original Wayfarer shape to provide a larger, softer profile than their source material. Each frame color option has a different corresponding lens, so whether you want gradient lenses, G-15s, red-tinted or even mirrored, consider yourself covered. Like classic P3-style glasses before it, the RB2180 features a rounded shape with a keyhole bridge. The acetate frames come with Ray-Ban’s signature logo and rivets and a Johnny Depp-level of cool. Ray-Ban’s updated take on what’s arguably its most classic design, these feature a slightly smaller profile and softened frame shape.
The standard lens option is slightly convex but you can also find these with perfectly flat lenses to give them an even more opaque look. This Aviator riff combines the metal frames of the ray ban caravan original and wraps the lenses in colorful acetate from the across the top bridge and around each lens. If you couldn’t decide between acetate and metal, this one lets you have it all.
Add in Ray-Ban’s classic G-15 lenses and shiny gold-tone frames and you’ll look like a walking tourism ad for the sub-tropical locale you wish you were already in. An easy way to take your sunglasses to the next level seems to be to mix acetate with metal, pretty much exactly like the Round Fleck sunglasses. The round frames ray ban new wayfarer combine the two materials deftly and the result is dripping in style. These oversized lenses offer a similar retro profile to the Square 1971, but in a slender acetate frame and with the arms positioned slightly higher on the lenses. It wasn’t the original (that’d be the aviator), but the Wayfarer is the classic Ray-Ban.
Since being purchased by Luxottica in 1999, the line has expanded dramatically and now includes more contemporary men’s and women’s eyeglasses and a line of children’s glasses. Made in Italy, the frames are polished acetate, offering gleam and glamour. The tinted lenses add high sun protection as well as minimising eye strain and fatigue. You’ll find the brand’s logos engraved subtly along the temples. Proof, if anyone asks, of your discerning fashion tastes, but not so obvious that you’ll be accused of name-dropping.
The vibe is very cosmopolitan, as evidenced in these so-called ‘Equinoctial’ shades. Made from lightweight acetate for easy breezy wear, the round frames are particularly flattering for those with square or heart-shaped faces, downplaying sharp lines and angles. Warby Parker makes quality and stylish prescription eyewear at an accessible price. They’re exceptionally wearable and constructed from hand-polished cellulose acetate—a material made from wood pulp and considered a ‘natural’ plastic. Inspired by Jackie O’s iconic oversized shades, the brand’s Elinor sunglasses offer immediate elegance. Hand in-laid with high-end Mazzucchelli acetate, they definitely err on the side of luxurious rather than utilitarian—and that’s fine with us.
Sunglasses should offer UV protection for your eyes and, above all, should be comfortable on your head. Use your insurance benefits to get glasses & prescription sunglasses at Wisconsin Vision. These cool sunglasses by Gentle Monster feature tinted lenses and 100% UV protection so you needn’t fear even the brightest summer day.
All are shoppable right now on GlassesUSA.com, and all can be customized with prescription lenses. Look for the latest promo codes on GlassesUSA to make your deal even sweeter. Ray-Ban now has a wide selection of glasses with something for every personal taste, prescription need and face shape. But, although plenty of stores carry Ray-Bans, many have limited options. Bausch & Lomb solidified Ray-Ban’s place fashion in 1952 by releasing the hard plastic frame Wayfarer – one of the first non-metal sunglasses ever. Soon after, Ray-Bans were spotted on James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause and Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany’s, cementing the Wayfarer in cinematic and sartorial history.
Meet the Tomahawk Neuralyzers—definitely the best sunglasses to travel with. This particular pair is named after Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and a total hero in our eyes. While she probably wasn’t wearing a pair of Randolph’s at the time, we’re sure she’d approve of these super sleek aviators with their ultra-flattering teardrop silhouette that suits all face shapes.