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We sell yellow polarised glasses that are useful for fishing, cycling and night driving. Not everyone agrees that yellow lenses are helpful for driving at night and to our knowledge there has not been any ‘definitive’ research undertaken. This YouTube video by ‘Doctor Eye Health’ is worth watching. His conclusions broadly being that if you are driving at dusk or twilight they will help and they also help counter the dazzle caused by oncoming headlights, but on unlit roads in the dark they will n …

We have in the past provided a lot information about sunglass lenses but not so much about frames – what they are made of.Broadly, sunglass frames are either made from plastic or metal. Generally, sports frames use one of the plastics and leisure styles use both metal and plastic. There are several types of plastic frame materials, the two most common being zylonite (zyl) also known as celluloid. It’s an easy material for factories to work with, not expensive and can come in a huge range of colo …

US President Joe Biden is a long-term devotee of Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses. When the sun is shining he is rarely seen without them. Coupled with his smart, dark single-breasted suits you could say it’s his signature look. And there’s no doubt the aviator frame suits his face shape. History of aviator sunglasses The aviator style sunglass has certainly been around a long time. Back in 1929 a US Army Air Corps Colonel called John Macready worked with Bausch & Lomb, a Rochester, New York-based …