{"id":22882,"date":"2015-01-08T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=22882"},"modified":"2014-12-15T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T23:46:55","slug":"solar-shield-over-glasses-sunglasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/solar-shield-over-glasses-sunglasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Shield Over-Glasses Sunglasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wear glasses. Mine are good ones, and I have little clippy sunglass “covers” for them that are polarized and work pretty well too.<\/p>\n

But they’re sorta delicate, and really take two hands to properly fix to my specs. Not ideal for driving, when I may want to stick something on quickly and with a single hand.<\/p>\n

Years ago I bought a truly ugly pair of Fitovers. They worked like I hoped but even just wearing them driving I got laughed at. Plus, they’re somewhat expensive. (Lots better looking these days, too.)<\/p>\n

I stumbled into Solar Shield sunglasses at a Walgreen’s drugstore. They’re less than $20, much less ugly, and work pretty good too. Polarized as well.<\/p>\n

Good for summer glare, even better for winter snow glare, and even good out of the car too. The, I dunno, brow-ridge on the frame shades the inside of the specs to cut down on behind-the-lens reflections (when sunlight gets directly in behind the sunglasses, what you’re seeing though your sunglasses is in competition with glare from your face, etc.), so a baseball hat isn’t so needed outside.<\/p>\n

These things are cheap enough and fit simply enough that we’ve got two pair in each car — driver’s and an extra.<\/p>\n

There are different sizes, so while you can pick these up online, I suggest going to Walgreen’s to find what fits your specs first.<\/p>\n

These are not tiny little things, so you’ll need to have some space to store them. And one pair of mine broke for unknown reasons. That’s then I found that parts are not interchangeable between sizes. But again, these are not expensive, so while I was disappointed, I just replaced them.<\/p>\n

You may not be styling with these things, but you’ll be comfortable. And a lot safer in those bad driving situations, too.<\/p>\n

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Affordable alternative to prescription sunglasses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22884,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882\/revisions\/22884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}