The problem is that sunlight reflecting off water is far brighter than general light levels. Glasses dark enough to deal with that would be too dark for anything else. Kind of like looking through welding glasses.
One thing worth noting about Maui Jims is their very generous warranty/repair/replacement policy. Even if they’re out of warranty, they’ll basically send you a new pair for $60 if you send in your old pair for repair or lens replacement. (that’s been my experience, anyway)
Which is nice of them, but my experience with sunglasses is that their primary failure mode is to vanish mysteriously into some other dimension. Or fall off my face into the ocean while sailing.
I wear my sunglasses at night ;D
I fail to see why that might be funny.
I know an Aussie here who is so intent on looking cool that he always, always wears his sunglasses including indoors at night. I would not be surprised if he slept in them. He’s a like a weird Doonesbury caricature.
So you can, so you can * what*?
I have a pair of extremely cheap but very favored non-prescription sunglasses. The simple round lenses screw in to the frames. Any chance a Lenscrafters or other shop will make high quality lenses for them?
The way I remember it (and it has been a few years) the light coming from the sun (or any other light source, I would imagine) is not polarized. That is, it’s made up of vertical waves, horizontal waves, and every other angle, too. The act of reflecting off a surface has the effect of orienting the waves to a particular angle, vertical, I think. And so a horizontally polarized filter blocks that reflected light while letting almost all of the direct light through.
But I don’t think my old pair of Serengetis has polarized lenses. I can’t remember if I ever wore them on a boat, but on land they’re great. I’ve never had a problem with them letting in too much glare, but they’re not so dark that I can’t see, either.
Corey Hart. Funny.
Here’s the 60 Minutes piece on Luxottica, on their website, both video and print to read instead if you wish.
Determine for yourself. Depending on what people have on their faces and how fancy they think they are about it, I sometimes laugh at them and tell them they overpaid. Custom lenses, built to spec? Cool. Ray-Bans off the shelf? Funny waste of cash.
I’ve always worn Oakleys for the last 20 years or so, but a couple of years ago I started to mix in cheap aviators once in awhile. I finally bought some Ray-Ban Aviators about 8 months ago and I’m not convinced they’re any better than the cheap knock offs I’d been buying. My Oakleys were always great though.
I recently retired a pair of Oakleys I’d been using for cycling. I can’t remember what brand I replaced them with, but they’re specifically for cycling and I really like them. One set of lenses that came with them are high contrast, so I use them for trap shooting too.
Of course there’s a difference between top quality sunglasses and the cheap, $10 sunglasses I wear. But the price tag and the logo are poor indicators of quality.
My wife is a firm believer in high price = quality, so I’ve had a couple of pairs from Sunglass Hut, $150 or so. Cheap plastic lenses, cheap hinges, cheap everything, just like the glasses I normally buy but I got a nice case and cleaning cloth.
Oakley sold out to Luxottica a few years ago. Ray Ban has been a Lux brand since… oh, gosh, sometime in the early eighties I think. I’ve been out of the industry for a long time now but the only manufacturer I’d still recommend is Maui Jim (who were in some sort of distribution/manufacturing agreement with Lux for a while but pulled out in 2010.)
So, you can buy overpriced shit from a mall store chain? Never knew. 
Quality’s quality. I got my Serengetis for around $70-80 a pair online, hardshell case and cleaning cloth included, and got 2-3 years a pair from them.
(I still have most of them - the design changes so little that the older ones are good for parts. I’ve swapped lenses and temple pieces forward a number of times.)
I have a pair of Oakleys I bought for playing baseball in Arizona. Not bad, but nothing impressive about the manufacture or fit either.
Years ago I tried on a pair of Maui Jim Kahuna sunglasses. I liked them, but I choked on the price tag, well over $200. After some web browsing, I found a pair of “Not Maui Jim” Kahuna sunglasses. Almost identical style, but they only cost $25. I went through a couple of pairs (scratched lenses, breakage) before I couldn’t find replacements. I finally surrendedered and bought a pair of real MJ Kahuna sunglasses for about $100 on eBay - and they were much better. Glass lenses that don’t scratch when you touch them, excellent optical clarity, and much more durable hardware. Not worth $200 to me, but for $100, I’m happy with my investment.
As often as I lose them, not worth it at all for me. I go through at least 2 pairs a year.