[Burkeman1]

I have never spent more than 15 bucks on sunglasses as that is an item I seem to lose constantly. I think spending anymore on such a trivial thing as sunglasses is ludicruous. But my older brother loves to indulge such "hip" things and sports some designer sunglasses that can bend in all different ways and are made out of some space age material stuff. He spent over 300. I mock him all the time for that purchase.

[JoJo Gunn]

They're not trivial, when you need glasses to begin with.

And if you're nearsighted like me, and want good polarized lenses, you're gonna spend at least 50 bucks a lens.

[sdk7x7]

I agree with you... but I'm not buying them for the aesthetic purposes, I need something so that I can see the damn road when it's sunny.

[Paulus Invictus]

The hilarious thing about the designer sun glasses is that they all are the same as to their cost of manufacture. I used to be in the sunglass business and soon found that our sunglasses (non-prescription) were of higher quality, tougher (molded lexan lenses and frames) and as good looking as the Oakleys etc. Ours cost about 1/0 the price of the designer models. We sold a ton of them.