How To Pick The Best Sunglasses For Your Trip

[sophie84]

I'm planning my next trip to Africa. I researched a lot on internet about weather, locality, atmospher etc. I collect all my accessories according to me. But the little bit confused regarding how to select proper sunglasses. Can anyone help me

[factor-fiction]

http://www.travelsmartblog.com/2011/10/how-to-pick-the-best-sunglasses-for-your-trip-2/

[Buenchico]

Moderator's note:
This question has come from a new member. If (as I suspect) it gets followed by an answer from another new member recommending a particular website (possibly in India) this thread will quickly be deleted as spam.

However, if it's genuine, welcome to The Answerbank, Sophie!

[sandyRoe]

Never mind sunglasses, I haven't been able to find a solar toppee anywhere. Have they gone completely out of fashion?

[murraymints]

I'm sure a new member will provide a link ! ;-/

[bookbinder]

Don't worry, sandyRoe, you can still get a pith helmet (which is much the same as a solar topee), from this website:
http://www.hatsandcaps.co.uk/pith-helmets-c_pith_helmets/?gclid=CNXDlqeK1L4CFQeWtAodqRgAlA
To complete your ensemble, you will, of course, require a fly whisk, some khaki shorts, and an upper-class accent. I'm still searching for those.

[murraymints]

And brown socks with Jesus sandals !! ....and a pimms !

[bookbinder]

...ahhh! murraymints! You've obviously been there, seen it, yes? Happy Valley in East Africa? The good old colonial days, eh?

[bookbinder]

Getting back to more serious stuff. sophie84, you migh find something useful here:
http://www.wikihow.com/Pick-Sunglasses
http://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/sunglasses.html
By the way, have you noticed that photographs of African people rarely, if ever, show them wearing sunglasses?

[murraymints]

And sit up straight when you're punkering ! Lol...

[bookbinder]

Ah, yes! I'd forgotten the punkah wallah! He was a good one, was old Ahmed! His brother was a dhobi wallah, you know, and very good he was, too!
Oh, it takes me back!

[murraymints]

Whispering grass don't tell the trees !!

[sunny-dave]

Are you lot taking the pith?

[bookbinder]

Oh, it had to come, didn't it? The comical aside? Thank you, sunny-dave, we'll let you know. Next one, please.

[Clanad]

Well… even with a plethora of vowels and consonants, sophie84 didn't receive a cogent answer… actually no answer at all, producing a certain ambage...

If you could find a pair of pre-1999 Bausch & Lomb Ray Ban sunglasses in a G-15 ground glass lens, you'd be in great shape, eye protection wise. (In the interest of disclosure, unlike Chris' Indian website, I do buy and sell ancient Bausch & Lomb Ray Bans on E-bay).

The current owner of Ray Ban is an Italian conglomerate called Luxottica and it's the opinion of Bausch & Lomb aficionados that the newer lenses don't match up to the previous quality.

The most popular model is the Wayfarer[i, but, of course, my personal favorite is the [i]Aviator] in the 58mm lens.

In my opinion, avoid any polarized lens and while the quality of plastic lenses has greatly improved they still don't match that of ground mineral glass lenses for eye protection...

[humbersloop]

polarised lenses are good for cutting glare off water though Clanad

[ferlew]

You all missed the most important one, the chai wallah.

[ferlew]

Lovely clip of Windsor and Don Estelle.

[Clanad]

Problem is, though, humber, is that the producing of polarized lenses causes them to cause black spots to appear on most communication devices like iPad, etc. Those devices are polarized as well and when combined with 90 degree polarization of sunglasses much of the screen disappears or at the very least makes it nearly unreadable… This, of course, only occurs in the portrait mode… turn the device 90 degrees to the landscape mode and all is well… this doesn't happen with the really good glass lenses, like Ray ban.

Many airlines have applied for approval to use various iPad type devices as what we euphemistically call electronic flight bags, or EFB's. This free's the pilots from lugging around a ton of various paper documents and charts. Problem is though,the phenomena I've attempted to describe, prohibits such approval. Some companies have begun producing off the shelf products without the polarization though...

[Buenchico]

>>>sophie84 didn't receive a cogent answer

Oh yes she did. Factor-Fiction's link just about covers it all, which is why I didn't bother to add anything to it.

[Clanad]

Ah… yes, the ubiquitous link. You're right though, Chris… apologies for oversight...