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Gone are the days when athletes wear sports sunglasses solely for the way that they offer protection. They also care about how they look. There are now so many interchangeable lens systems and slick frames available that it is really hard to be able to separate fashion from quality. It mustn’t be forgotten that when you are an athlete who performs a lot when the sun is out, sport sunglasses are a necessity rather than a luxury, enabling you to keep your eyes free from injury and healthy.

But do they really make a difference? Well, yes they do. In general, sports eyewear tends to be safer for the wearer than real sunglasses are as the frames and the lenses are both made from polycarbonate, which is shatterproof if struck and gives you the benefits of both protective eyewear and sunglasses. Certain lens colours can also reduce eye strain and glare at the same time and enhancing details and improving visual clarity.

This allows the eyes to be fully protected both from flying debris and also against damaging Ultra violet rays, which have been previously linked to benign growth’s on the eye’s surface, cataracts, cancer of the eyelids and of the skin around your eyes, not forgetting (for skiers) photokeratitis, otherwise known as snow blindness, which is a very painful, albeit temporary sunburning of the surface of the eye.

Sport sunglasses do not have to be expensive, but in order to offer good protection for you, it is necessary to find sunglasses which at the very least have top quality lenses. Manufacturers do make this difficult by not using a uniform labelling system, which means that it is very difficult for a buyer to know what they need to look for and they may find that having a high price on an item does not necessarily mean high quality. Some of the most inexpensive sunglasses will have quality lenses (in cheap frames), and some very highly priced sunglasses could have very cheap lenses (in expensive frames). For sportsmen, you need to be sure you have high quality all round sunglasses. How do you do this?

Well, high quality sunglass lenses will block 100% of UVA and UVB light as well as screening out 75 to 90 of all visible light. They will match perfectly in terms of absorption and colour and will be completely free of imperfection and distortion. The optimal lens colours for sport sunglasses are grey since it doesn’t modify colours. You can also go for green and brown. As far as frames are concerned, wrap-around frames are better for sports as in bright environments they offer added Ultra Violet protection.

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