Review: Polaroid Air Sunglasses
I had tried these Polaroid Polarized Sunglasses out a while back on a rare sunny day but didn’t get round to blogging about it. Then when we had that gorgeous weather a couple of weeks back, I wore them in the garden while I was reading and they were great and really cut down the glare and stopped me squinting. I suppose that’s what sunglasses are supposed to do though, aren’t they? I don’t have much experience of these things, being in the ‘I don’t wear sunglasses as I look like a twat in them’ camp.
I would have thought though, apart from stopping you squinting in the sun when you’re out cycling or running, what you want from a pair of sunglasses is ones that don’t slide around your face all the time. Well, these ones certainly don’t. They’re very close fitting without being too close or tight and they don’t move at all, unlike my normal glasses that slid down my nose so often, I had to buy some little plastic arm things that slide on to secure them behind your ears (which work really well by the way).
These are a bit larger in the frame than I’d like as I’m not really in the chavvy-oversized-Deidre-Barlow-frame brigade but they’re not quite that bad.
I put them on in the house and everything went black. Obviously though, unless you’re a complete poser or have just had a cataract operation, sunglasses are meant for outside. So outside I went.
Outside everything went bright again and I could see clearly through them and, on looking up directly at the sun (yes, I know you’re not supposed to do that but I wanted to test them thoroughly), there was no glare.
As comfortable as they were, I didn’t exactly forget they were there as I was aware of the shiny metallic blue frame and the black plastic bridge. That could be because I need to get used to them but I think I’d probably have noticed them less if they were black, not blue.
Overall though, if you like a larger frame and are a fan of metallic blue, these are a really good pair of sports sunglasses.