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Oakley Style Switch and News Flash Sunglasses
Oakley Style Switch and News Flash Sunglasses
Oakley Sunglasses Cheap definitely has a style all its own. Whether you’re hanging in your muscle car near Venice Beach or lounging on a cigarette boat in the middle of Lake Skaha, you can spot a pair of Oakley sunglasses from a mile away. Big, bold, brash – their tag line should read “When they’re on your face, they’re in their face.” It’s hard to believe that a brand with such audacious offerings as the “Flak jacket” and “Batwolf” had a humble beginning in the garage of Californian Jim Jannard 38 years ago. (He named the brand after his English Setter.) Jannard invested $300 of his own money to start the company and, interestingly, $300 will be just enough to buy you a pair of the Style Switch sunglasses that I’ll be reviewing in this article. Oakley also sent along a pair of the women’s polarized News Flash sunglasses, which a fellow reviewer took on. (Hey, I wasn’t about to walk around town with women’s sunglasses on.)
Oakley Inc. is based in Foothill Ranch, California, and is a multi-billion-dollar company owned by Italian group Luxottica, which also owns such brands as Ray-ban and Vogue. Aside from sunglasses, Oakley also manufactures goggles, watches, backpacks, shoes and clothing and currently owns more than 600 patents for eyewear, materials and performance gear. One such patent is the “Switchlock” interchangeable lens technology, which you’ll find in the Style Switch glasses: it allows the user to open the frame to swap different coloured lenses so as to avoid lugging three pairs of sunglasses around. Other patents, trademarks and copyrights include Oakley's "Plutonite" lenses, "Polaric Ellipsoid" geometry and "O Matter" frame material, all of which will be explained in more detail below.
Around the same time I was sent the Oakleys, I also received another brand of sunglasses with an interchangeable lens system that used magnets. It allowed me to compare the mechanics of each: one involved easily popping out the lenses and reattaching another set using the magnets; and the Oakleys involved unsnapping and swiveling open the nose piece, pivoting the lower bar of the frame outwards on its hinge and sliding out the lens. Including the hinges on the arms, there are exactly six moving parts on the Oakley Style Switch sunglasses, which concerns me. Each hinge is made of plastic and I can’t help but wonder how long it would take before I snapped them, especially when the lower bar is open and the frame is especially vulnerable. Granted, this may never happen but, personally, I’ve done worse to beefier frames. That said, it is great to be able to swap out lenses in a frame, no matter how involved the system may be, and the Style Switch come with two different sets of lenses.
Oakley Sunglasses Cheap definitely has a style all its own. Whether you’re hanging in your muscle car near Venice Beach or lounging on a cigarette boat in the middle of Lake Skaha, you can spot a pair of Oakley sunglasses from a mile away. Big, bold, brash – their tag line should read “When they’re on your face, they’re in their face.” It’s hard to believe that a brand with such audacious offerings as the “Flak jacket” and “Batwolf” had a humble beginning in the garage of Californian Jim Jannard 38 years ago. (He named the brand after his English Setter.) Jannard invested $300 of his own money to start the company and, interestingly, $300 will be just enough to buy you a pair of the Style Switch sunglasses that I’ll be reviewing in this article. Oakley also sent along a pair of the women’s polarized News Flash sunglasses, which a fellow reviewer took on. (Hey, I wasn’t about to walk around town with women’s sunglasses on.)
Oakley Inc. is based in Foothill Ranch, California, and is a multi-billion-dollar company owned by Italian group Luxottica, which also owns such brands as Ray-ban and Vogue. Aside from sunglasses, Oakley also manufactures goggles, watches, backpacks, shoes and clothing and currently owns more than 600 patents for eyewear, materials and performance gear. One such patent is the “Switchlock” interchangeable lens technology, which you’ll find in the Style Switch glasses: it allows the user to open the frame to swap different coloured lenses so as to avoid lugging three pairs of sunglasses around. Other patents, trademarks and copyrights include Oakley's "Plutonite" lenses, "Polaric Ellipsoid" geometry and "O Matter" frame material, all of which will be explained in more detail below.
Around the same time I was sent the Oakleys, I also received another brand of sunglasses with an interchangeable lens system that used magnets. It allowed me to compare the mechanics of each: one involved easily popping out the lenses and reattaching another set using the magnets; and the Oakleys involved unsnapping and swiveling open the nose piece, pivoting the lower bar of the frame outwards on its hinge and sliding out the lens. Including the hinges on the arms, there are exactly six moving parts on the Oakley Style Switch sunglasses, which concerns me. Each hinge is made of plastic and I can’t help but wonder how long it would take before I snapped them, especially when the lower bar is open and the frame is especially vulnerable. Granted, this may never happen but, personally, I’ve done worse to beefier frames. That said, it is great to be able to swap out lenses in a frame, no matter how involved the system may be, and the Style Switch come with two different sets of lenses.
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