Posts Tagged ‘silver eyeglasses’

Silver-mirrored and silver-framed sunglasses

June 21st, 2010

The current eyeglass and sunglass market offers numerous products in various colors, materials, and styles. There are still emerging eyewear models that are supposed to meet the increasingly colorful needs of modern customers. For people who have got bored with the traditional eyewear products, silver eyeglasses and sunglasses are much probably a good option that may bring a new and exciting experience. Silver eyeglasses can be glasses that use silver to make the frame and the others that are silver-colored in frame. This classification is in accordance with the two meanings of silver as a word. Wearing a pair of silver glasses for vision correction may bring an elite look. Unlike silver eyeglasses, silver sunglasses are a wider concept which covers many more products. This is because sunglasses can be tinted both in lenses and in the frame, thus silver sunglass frames and silver sunglass lenses are equally available.

From the perspective of sunglass lenses, silver sunwear refers mainly to sunglasses that have silver-mirrored lenses. It is easy to find sunglass lenses in some tints, like green, rose, pink, gray, orange and so forth. But silver-tinted sunglass lenses could be seldom seen. One of the typical models of silver sunglasses of mirrored type is the Aviator 70’s style classic full mirror chrome silver sun glasses. Of course, wearing a pair of silver-mirrored sunglasses can help a person create a unique look while being in the public. But more importance of these sunglasses lies in their optical benefits. Applied to the front surface of sunglass lenses, a silver mirror coating can block an additional 10 percent to 60 percent of visible light, bringing greater visual comfort in extremely bright conditions. Hiking, skiing or snowboarding in such an environment will find silver-mirrored sunglasses quite helpful.

Even if sunglasses with silver lenses are the major type, there are actually still silver-framed sunglasses, which include those with silver-colored frames and the others take silver as the frame material. Silver sunglasses of this latter category are less seen. But they can create a similar effect as eyeglass frames that are made of silver.

Two categories of silver eyeglasses

June 20th, 2010

To a certain degree, the current huge and diversified eyewear market forces eyeglass users to make a lot of considerations, probably in terms of frame material, color, shape, lens material, and temple style. Among all these factors, frame appearance and material are particularly important. Frame material is usually closely linked with the weight and durability of the whole pair. Frame appearance is the only feasible part to carry out Rx eyewear decoration, provided prescription lenses are all crystal clear. In either of these two aspects, silver eyeglasses can serve as a good option. When we say silver eyewear, there are two different categories of products. This variation results from the different meanings of silver as a word. Silver can refer to a grayish-white precious metal which is widely used for making coins, jewelry, ornaments etc. In the other cases, silver means a shiny grayish-white color. With this explanation, it is understandable that silver eye glasses can be glasses that use silver as frame material or others that have silver-colored frames.

The currently available eyeglass frame materials do expand customers’ options for a good, new look. Plastics and metals in regular types and variations have been the major frame material options for many decades. However, this does not offer an excuse to neglect the existence of other unusual materials that have also been used to make eyeglass frames. Silver eyeglasses made of silver are a good testimony. Silver has long been considered as a precious metal because of its scarcity in the nature. In the history of human civilization, silver was once used in many countries as a form of currency. Even if it has faded out in the currency field, it is still one of the best choices to make jewelry, ornaments and the like. To some extent, this metal can indicate personal social status. Applying silver to eyeglass frames is expected to meet a similar demand. These products are usually only affordable by the extremely rich.

The other type of silver eyeglasses includes all Rx eyeglasses that have a silver-colored frame. They have no limitation on frame material and shape. Thus possible materials include plastics, metals, mixed materials, memory metal and memory plastic. And rimless, semi-rimless and full-frame styles are available.