Your Healthy Eyes - Sunwear Lens Options
With a wide variety of lens options available,
you can customize your sun lenses to meet
your visual, protection, performance and
comfort needs. With sunwear, you can mix
and match the following lens options to
create functional and fashionable sunwear.
Polarized lenses are the best for
eliminating glare and come in several different
colors and densities. Polarization eases eye stress
and fatigue in the sun by eliminating the glare
that bounces off of water, ice, snow, wet roads
and shiny surfaces. Polarized lenses are great
for driving.
Tinted lenses are available in a rainbow of color
options from light to very dark. Light tints alone do
not make effective sunglasses. Tints can be solid
through the whole lens or darker on top fading to
lighter or clear at the bottom of the lens.
Mirrored lenses not only look cool, they are
cool. Mirrored coatings provide a reflective surface
that makes the eye virtually invisible to viewers. The
mirrors come in different metallic colors and can be
combined with polarized lenses for the ultimate in
protection and style.
Sunglasses protect your eyes from harmful ultraviolet
(UV) radiation, which is present even on cloudy days.
Quality sunwear provides 100 percent UV protection and
can significantly reduce the risk of vision problems caused
by sunlight such as cataracts and retinal damage. Once
you’ve determined your lenses will provide 100 percent
UV protection, you can choose the color of your lenses.
Neutral gray lenses provide the least amount of color
distortion and come in various densities from 10 percent
to 35 percent gray. Contrast-enhancing brown lenses
come in various shades including amber and copper.
These lenses are often selected for sports activities
requiring enhanced visual detail and contrast, such as golf.
With the lines between fashion sunwear and
sports-oriented sunglasses blurring, the best features
of both categories have come together in a variety of
versatile eyewear solutions. Fashionable eyewear is now
available with many of the performance-enhancing
features you would find in a traditional pair of sportsoriented
sunwear. For example, polarized lenses have
long been worn by fishermen and water sports
enthusiasts for their ability to eliminate the glare
coming off of water. Now everyone is wearing
Polarized Lenses
Only one type of lens
can eliminate glare and
that’s a polarized lens.
Glare can make it
difficult to see objects
clearly, washing out
colors and details.
Looking at a scene with polarized lenses,
you’ll notice the colors are deeper, richer
and bolder, and details are clearer and more
distinct. Polarized lenses also help reduce
squinting, which, in turn, reduces eye fatigue,
tension and eyestrain. Polarized lenses come
in a variety of colors including neutral gray,
brown and green.