About Designer Sunglasses

What are Designer Sunglasses?

Designer sunglasses offer both eye protection and great visual appearance. If you love outdoor activities a pair of quality sunglasses can help you to look fashionable as well as protect your eyes from sun rays.

Famous designers such as Guess, Donna Karan, or Fendi usually design and market their own sunglass brand names but outsource their manufacturing and distribution to carefully selected eyewear companies. The result is eyewear frames that are right for overall fashion image they want to create.

Like regular sunglasses, sunglasses from fashion designers are designed to protect you against sun’s rays. They provide protection from UV radiation and glare. A special design of sun glasses, for example, is ideal for beach volleyball because it also increases contrast or depth perception.

Features and Benefits of Designer Sunglasses

The following list of benefits can help you decide which sunglasses suit your needs:

Ultraviolet (UV) protection. Ultraviolet damages the cornea and the retina. This feature may be the most important one for regular outdoor activities that exposed your eyes to excessive sunlight. Sunglasses with UV coating protect you from cataracts and macular degeneration caused by your eyes’ UV absorption.

Glare protection. Excessive light intensity, direct from sunlight or reflect off from sea surface or snow, damages the retina. Polarized sunglasses can block light entering your eyes by as much as 97 percent to avoid such damage.

Eliminates certain light frequencies. Frequencies of light can blur or contrast your vision. Colored sunglasses let you work better in specific situations by filtering unwanted frequencies of light. For example, if your sport is water skiing wearing purple tints sunglasses offers you with the best contrast of objects against blue background.

The above benefits are usually offered in the following features:

Lens material. As you may know, there are two general types of lens material: plastic and glass. While plastic lenses are lighter and more impact resistant, glass lenses are heavier but more resistant to scratches.

Lens darkness. What is your ultimate wearing objective? If you love snow skiing sports you need lenses that block most light. But if your activity mainly is driving then 60 to 70 percent light block is sufficient for mild protection.

Special coatings. Do you need increased clarity or to block certain types of light? There are designed that provide anti-reflective, scratch resistant, polarization and tinting coatings.

Frame design. Depending on your specific need you may choose many options from normal frames similar to your eyeglasses to wrap-around frames that protect you from direct light, reflected light and ambient light as well.

Frame material. The inexpensive sunglasses use simple plastic or wire frames. But designer sunglasses use high strength, light weight composite or metal frames.

Designer or Replica Sunglasses?

As you walk into a sunglass hut at a shopping mall or a discount store you may struck by the wide array of choices. Cheap or expensive? Fake or real? Replica or original? Designer inspired or designer brand? While you may favor a pair of designer sunglasses from your favorite designer you need to know what you want when you go to buy one.

Each of the above features and benefits certainly has its cost consequence. There are fake, replica or even designer inspired sunglasses that you can purchase with less than $20. However, fashion brand names with lots of features may cost you hundreds of dollars.

Whether you go for brand names or not make sure you buy ones with the right features and benefits. Once you know the overall specifications you can then decide your budget for the selected sunglasses.

Be careful with cheap sunglasses. Although visually they look the same as top sunglasses their lenses are made from ordinary plastic with a thin, tinted coating on them. And most importantly they won’t offer the same benefits as good quality sunglasses.

"Which Sunglasses are Right for Me?"

Are you a designer-minded or a manufacturer-minded? You can find many designer sunglasses such as Dior, Calvin Klein, Timberland, Kenneth Cole and many more. There are also top sunglasses manufacturers that supply designer sunglasses such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Serengeti, Maui Jim and many more.

Who is your favorite celebrity? And what sunglasses does he or she wear? If you want to look appealing and mysterious like him or her just wear the sunglasses he or she wears.

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