Date: November 5th, 2026 12:49 AM Author: harry potter and the nihilists of azkaban
Cheap ones from fast fashion places as there is no feeling so low as destroying a $370 pair of Chinaxotica frames a week after purchase by idlemindedly putting them in your back pocket and sitting on them
The general build quality has also gone up as the Vietnamese (a beautiful people, one of the best folks) and Chinese have stepped up their game bigly
Date: November 5th, 2026 1:03 AM Author: harry potter and the nihilists of azkaban
depends on the frame
my flat persols and blue lensed ray bans have survived several apocalypses
big face-screen android versace parody ones and a couple of D&G pairs have broken like cocktail toothpicks. these are all luxoticas ultimately afaik. maybe not persol as i think they manufacture in house rather than contract out but of this my knowledge is not up to date
meanwhile I have 3 20$ pairs from urban outfitters' sales that i suspect would stop a bullet
Date: November 5th, 2026 1:08 AM Author: harry potter and the nihilists of azkaban
major generalization, completely subjective, anecdotal, but persols are really nice with a tan but tend not to look nice on pale white skin. they're a brand for latins. very good UV protection though, whatever patent cocktail that they coat their lenses with is nice and does a lot to stop glass damage
maui jims are overpriced and tend not to be that memorable imo
ray bans most interesting stuff aren't the "classic" frames like the wayfarers or clubmasters or what have you. there was some throwaway collection with netflix of all companies that had some of the most interesting "normal" frames that i can recall from a brand like that in recent history. on average they tend to size for smaller faces so if you have a Expanded skull it's going to be tougher to find a pair that looks good proportionately vis a vis the brow and nose
Date: November 5th, 2026 1:13 AM Author: Anglo living on the Rez
I have a big head. i prefer something with a smaller or non existent logo. i like the older ray bans before they went to shitty plastic or whatever.
i am a somewhat tan anglo so i think i can rock the persols. had a pair in high school that i lost learning how to drink alcohol. also had a pair of ray bans but i think my wigger friend stole them
Date: November 5th, 2026 1:27 AM Author: harry potter and the nihilists of azkaban
i think they're good for watersports? supposedly their polarized ones, maybe this is a sub-line, help with identifying contrasts in the water for e.g. seeing obstacles in the surf or seeing fish
mj that is
plastic construction quality has gotten really good imo and i've had Sportwear Elite Density Promax plastic frames from newer ray ban stuff that have taken less cosmetic damage from drops than e.g. persol vinyl ones
damn, see i used to just get cheap ones like from CVS but they'd break all the time and i realized i should just get a nice pair and take slightly better care of it (like keep it in the case) and it'd save money in the long run. i did lose them once in a different city while on tour and had to get another pair on eBay though.
Date: November 5th, 2026 1:11 AM Author: harry potter and the nihilists of azkaban
i think the best value is probably in mid tier stuff atm
the drug store glasses are practically single use and i have been through pairs of those that, well in the past, didn't even last until the end of a short vacation
perhaps the sourcing is different now though. it's a fragile object to spend a lot of money on if you're active so i don't feel the value in getting some other precious glass device that i have to baby around lest i'm out a few benjies for bumping into a staircase bannister too hard or whatever
Date: November 5th, 2026 1:19 AM Author: harry potter and the nihilists of azkaban
very feminine frame ime
not even andro just straight up girly
regardless it may look nice depending on the face. the magic of the sunglasses object is that, like fragrances, they change character depending on the physical characteristics of the wearer and this can end up making an interesting statement without trying to make any statement at all
Date: November 5th, 2026 1:45 AM Author: Anglo living on the Rez
lets just say if I was a chick you would wanna bang me. so does this make it better or worse? do you need a very masculine face to pull it off or the opposite? lol
cr although i'm solidly millennial @ 35. honestly i consider up to mid 40s to be young, not just on the bort but irl too. although i live in a very superficial city where i regularly meet people throughout their 40s who look 15+ years younger, so that helps
crrr. also in my city everyone is slow to settle down so literally they're like in their 40s looking 20s going out partying and stuff. so it's all kinda lumped together in my brain.
This dood is up there, met him at one of my favorite dive hang outs. i was always the youngest dood in there, would bring my friends and would tear it up playing pool or whatever. they have 8 liners / slot machines and this dood would be in there even with his wife betting on them and drinking whiskeys. would also talk to us about sports betting. he is a pretty well-known sports guy around here.
also random wealthy latin american execs, some cowboy dude that used to run motels and bitched about how they were all run by indians now. and then some random big ranching empire heirs (these guys are more like in their 30s though)
yeah i got them at the airport in Paris after accepting a job offer that was a $45k raise, i went to some duty-free luxury sunglasses place and fell in love with them