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Some people think that Nike sunglasses are made by a manufacturing organization. In fact, Nike sunglasses are made by a marketing organization. That is what Nike do, they have a fantastically strong brand and they can use it to market any products that they so wish. Sunglasses started off simply as implements used to block out the sun, but gradually they began to emerge as fashion items and also important performance enhancers in the world of sport. The world of sport has Nike at its centre, and has done so for a long time, so it is no surprise that Nike sunglasses are around and about.

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The company is pronounced as Ni-Key, and according to Greek mythology is named after the winged goddess of victory who used to sit at Zeus’s side when the latter was the Olympic pantheon’s ruler. Nike was a mystical presence who symbolized many victorious encounters, presiding over some of the earliest battlefields in history. According to mythology, if the Greeks went to battle and happened to win they would say it was because of Nike. One of the most recognisable symbols in the world is the Nike ‘swoosh’, embodying the winged goddess’s spirit that used to inspire the courageous yet chivalrous warriers who fought at civilization’s dawn.

Since everyone knows about the swoosh, and of course it features on Nike sunglasses, you might like to know that the original graphic design for the swoosh was based upon the wing of Nike the Greek Goddess. It was created in 1971 by an advertising student at Portland State University called Caroline Davidson. Whilst she was at the University she met an accounting professor there called Phil Knight. He asked her to do some freelance work for Nike and paid her $35 (around £25!) when she presented him with the swoosh logo having been asked to create a logo to be put on the side of a shoe. Knight then got his first shoe made, and then in 1972 they hit the market.

The distribution outfit for Nike apparel was the salubrious surroundings of Phil Knight’s car. He would go around to retail outlets with his shoes and try to persuade them to sell the items. It is an amazing thought that the current juggernaught that Nike is now, defining sporting performance, popular culture as well as other varieties of ‘cool’, was once such a modest operation – the result of an MBA project at Stanford that postulated the possibility of good running shoes being produced in the Far East and sold in the USA.

Nike sunglasses are now part of this legend, and you can be sure that these implements will have the style and quality that you should justifiably expect from this company.

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