Eyeglasses / Sunglasses Discussion

[Guest]

Love the Chrome Hearts but the price is seriously nuts. I mean I wear Mikli and find those expensive but you gotta be quite a sucker for glasses (or have huge disposable income) to buy $1500 glasses that are not made of a super special material (e.g. real tortoise, sterling silver, horn) and that come from a relatively unknown brand. It's the Veblen effect where the perceived value of a good increases with a higher price. I tried some on. Really nice glasses but even for this luxury loving individual the price was too high by factor 3. And the margins on sunglasses are absolutely enormous already. Higher than on fashion usually.

[LandoCal126 0]

Just got myself a pair of original 1980 (Clear/ Violet Iridium) Oakley Frongskins. Been wanting a pair since I lost mine as a youth. I Will be wearing them all Summer long.

[hectic]

I just got a pair of Oakley Whiskers (with Oakley prescription lenses), pics to follow of my face (noooo, wont someone think of the children).

[ADDIC]

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these finally came in (after waiting a week because the seller sent the wrong color)

Persol 2747

[hectic]

Oakley Whiskers:

[Seul]

They look a bit like swimming goggles on you. Try a bigger model, perhaps?.. 

[Dchill]

Those aren't too bad, but I'd have to agree with Seul bigger frames may work better.

[hectic]

You both confirmed my anxieties about these. Subsequently I have been looking at these:
http://www.zappos.com/maui-jim-akamai

Maui Jim also do an in-house prescription service.

FFS, they looked fine in the store.

[hectic]

As a glasses wearer I'm a bit of a newbie about sunglasses.

[Seul]

Those Maui-Jims 'd prob look ace on you.

Shameless plug for someone on Styleforum trying to sell the DIOR 'BLACK TIE' sunglasses. He's been trying to get rid of these for months now, right after I got mine. Such good glasses, don't miss out!..

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=177013

[elclintor]

Looks like we were cluttering up the Random Announcements thread.. so here we go!!

These are still my favorites so far

[Finn666]

hahaha nice…finally we can start talking about this without shitting up other threads!
(maybe G. can move all the posts into here?)

So here's me again...
what ya think guys? this is a large...

@elclintor:

I really like them.. up for consideration..

nice poster in the background!

thx a lot mate…

same here! btw. is there a glasses-thread somewhere?

the only thing i think about is if the space between the top of the glasses and the bridge of the nose is too big (see pic!)

[elclintor]

They look fine to me..

[bertoni]

Hey Finn…I like them but I see what you mean. I took forever to choose mine and still wonder if I made the right choice! Your eyes are pretty central and you could definitely pull them off but they're maybe a touch high on the nose. My two pennies worth....

[Finn666]

^yeah that's what i thought as well at first…but it also could be cuz my nose isn't that straight anymore (was broken some months back!) so now they sit a bit higher as "normal" i think!

[bertoni]

Don't get me wrong I like 'em. And your nose has faired better than my twice broken banana I think you can ask the same question to 100 different people and get 100 different points of view. Bit like with your hair cut. The GF often throws a spanner in the works…happens almost daily for me. Totally ignore her POV mind
They're definitely some very nice frames that suit your face anyway...

[Finn666]

^thx for your honest opinion mate…

so i think i'm going to stay with these now...no matter who says what
and the gf just needs to like them, she got no other choice i'd say...haha

and to go to another topic, here are my sunglasses!

Ray Ban - Wayfarer Max
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[elclintor]

Those are rad!

My Ray Ban New Wayfarer

[jacoavlu]

I guess you decided to grow the beard again El….

[elclintor]

@jacoavlu:

I guess you decided to grow the beard again El….

LOL

Nope, it doesn't grow that fast!

Pic from when the beard was strong…. It is returning however..