Modern Sunglasses for Women

Sunglasses are fashion tools to protect your eyes from high intensity lights and harmful radiations from the sun, thereby providing a stylish eye protection and good feel of comfort for your eyes.

Sunglasses are basically, the by products of commonly known as spectacles or eyeglasses, which are used for correcting your eyesight, which uses powered lenses for improving your visual disabilities. 

Spectacles are tools to cure some common eye defections, whereas sunglasses are known to prevent them from getting damaged, hence sunglasses are preventive measures on a long term basis.

In this modern world, sunglasses are not only used for protecting your eyes, but also to give you a proper fashion look and styling sense. Sunglasses are used extensively in various conditions, where your eyes need to tackle tough lighting environments, where high intensity lights causes discomfort and could possibly damage your eyes. 

Most common situations like watching a television, or working on your computer screen for hours, go out for shopping in a sunny day, driving during the day, sports activities like swimming, cycling, driving, skiing and almost every possible sports uses sunglasses. 

The most common of all, sunglasses are extensively used in the world of fashion and style by men, women and kids. In the late 1930s, Hollywood actors and actresses started to use sunglasses in movies, this created a huge trend in the fashion world, where people started to accept this change in their lifestyle, which led to a widespread increase in sunglasses with different styles and design.

Lenses And Frames

Older sunglasses used glass lens and metallic frames, but modern sunglasses uses light plastic lens, plastic frames, alloy frames and even wooden frames. Modern lenses comes with thin coating of photographic material, which prevents high intensity lights from reaching your eyes and causing damages to your eyes. 

Lenses comes in different color shades like blue, black, brown, green and red to match your fashion and your skin tone. Most lenses are 100% polarized, made out of polaroid plastic films, which prevents glaring and reflection, hence is useful during fishing when you need to see beneath the water surface for fishes.

The most common of all is the photochromic lens which changes colour when exposed to sunlight. Corrective glasses uses photochromic lens so that it could be used as a corrective tool as well as a sun shade during the day. Modern glasses used UV400 lens which protects your eyes from harmful radioactive radiations from the sun, by blocking those radiations from reaching your retina.

Types Of Modern Eyewear

• Aviator Sunglasses - The classic pilot aviator sunglasses with drop shaped lenses and thin metallic frame, has been an all time classic, from movies to common public, it has been the longest trending design which people have accepted at all times and all seasons. The aviator sunglasses were widely accepted and used by pilots in the early 1970s, hence the name pilot aviator sunglasses, since the release of movie 'Top Gun', it has been in fashion till now.

• Oversized Sunglasses - The common style and design of early 1980s, mostly adapted by actors and actresses, the round rectangular thick frame oversized sunglasses was a common fashion trend. This oversized sunglasses have recently bloomed in the fashion world with a twist in design as compared to the older design, where you can find oversized butterfly sunglasses for women, a common modification to the old model. Oversized aviator sunglasses, oversized round sunglasses, oversized oval sunglasses, oversized square sunglasses and oversized rectangle sunglasses are all modification of the old oversized sunglasses with square design.

• Teashades Sunglasses - Also called `John Lennon` sunglasses, is characterized by perfectly medium round lens with thin metallic frame. Dark lenses are very common, but modern sunglasses comes with different shades and coloured lenses. Teashades glasses are quite rare but give you a perfect fashion boost in style and increases your overall lifestyle by giving you different kind of uniqueness.

• Rectangular Sunglasses - This type of sunglasses comes in different variants like perfectly rectangular, square, round rectangular and thin rectangular sunglasses. Mostly used by men, this type of sunglasses is used extensively during sports activities and professional work. The most common example of rectangular sunglasses is the one used in the movie 'The Matrix', after which it has been widely accepted by professional and software executives all around the world as a mark of style and comfort with stress free vision while using computers screens and televisions. Rimless and semi rimless rectangular sunglasses are extensively used for swimming, surfing and other related beach sports.

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