Designer Sunglasses

Designer Sunglasses - Make a Fashion Statement
By Cyndi Schoenhals

Designer Sunglasses are for those that want more out of their glasses then corrected vision. They say who you are with a look that is in-step with your personality. You'll find that most of the notable fashion brands also provide a line of designer sunglasses. This includes well-known names like Armani, Calvin Klein, Guess, Tommy Hilfiger, Guess, Christian Dior, Gucci, just to name a few.

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Designer Sunglasses For Any Personality

For those that want more then protection from the sun, designer sunglasses will put you in style. You can express yourself with various shapes and colors. You can get the sleek futuristic look, the sporty wrap-around style, the retro look of the '50s and '60s or the Hollywood glamour feel with rhinestones and cubic zirconia. There are also a vast number of choices for your lenses. Go with earth tones, dark mirror lenses or fanciful colors like rose, orange, yellow or purple.

Designer sunglasses come in both prescription and nonprescription (also known as "plano" sunglasses). They are available in optical stores, department stores, sunglasses specialty stores and on the Internet. There are numerous online retail stores providing serious discounts on the leading designer brands.

Prescription Designer Sunglasses

In the past, the variety of styles for prescription sunglasses was very limited. In fact, most people just purchased clip-on to go over their glasses. Now there are numerous prescription designer sunglasses with complimentary designer prices. In general, whatever is available in the plano market is also available in a prescription. You can get them in basic to high prescriptions, which include bifocal and progressive lens options as well for those that have presbyopic vision. There are some limitations in the availability of curved lenses. Although new technology is continually providing solutions to the prescription dilemma.

UV Protection

Regardless of style, the overriding importance of sunglasses is to provide adequate protection from the harmful rays of the sun. Without the proper protection you risk the potential of cataracts and a gradual clouding of the lens of the eye. The minimum standards for sunglasses must block at least 70% of UVB and at least 60% of UVA. It is recommended that you purchase sunglasses that have least 98% protection from both UVA and UVB rays.

About the Author
Cyndi Schoenhals is a professional writer and publisher for The Contact Lens Source. A leading source of information on contact lenses, sunglasses, bifocals contacts, color contacts, disposable, discount and free contacts. She currently resides in Southern Pines, North Carolina.