| It may shock you to learn that sunglasses
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| | of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Foster's
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| weren't always used to protect people's
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| | sunglasses were sold at Woolworth on the
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| eyes from the sun. The history of
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| | boardwalk.
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| sunglasses dates back to ancient China
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| | In 1936, sunglasses became polarized when
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| and Rome. It has been reported that the
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| | Edwin H. Land began using his patented
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| Roman emperor Nero enjoyed watching
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| | Polaroid filter when making sunglasses.
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| gladiator fights through polished gems.
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| | Around this time, even more Americans
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| In China, sunglasses were used in the
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| | started buying sunglasses. Famous movie
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| twelfth century or even earlier.
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| | stars and musicians also began to wear
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| Sunglasses were first made out of lenses
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| | sunglasses. They started to become not
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| that were flat panes of smoky quartz.
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| | only a way to protect against sun glare,
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| These types of sunglasses could not
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| | but also a way to be "cool." Sunglasses
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| correct vision, or protect from harmful
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| | became a cultural phenomenon, and some
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| UV rays, but did reduce glare. Chinese
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| | people wore them even when it wasn't
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| judges used the smoky quartz glasses to
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| | sunny, or when they were indoors.
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| hide their facial expressions when they
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| | Today, sunglasses continue to have
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| interrogated witnesses.
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| | advances. UV protection has almost become
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| Sunglasses did not undergo further
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| | an industry standard, and there are
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| changes until about the eighteenth
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| | sunglasses available for a variety of
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| century because of the work of James
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| | sports. There are numerous tints
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| Ayscough. He experimented with tinted
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| | available for sunglasses, and sunglasses
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| lenses in spectacles. Ayscough was
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| | have changed styles over the years.
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| steadfast in the belief that glasses
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| | Prescription glasses have also been given
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| tinted with a blue or green color could
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| | tints that only appear when the sun's
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| potentially correct specific vision
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| | rays hit the glasses. In 2004, Oakley
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| problems. Ayscough was not concerned with
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| | developed a brand of sunglasses that had
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| protecting the eyes from the suns rays.
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| | a built-in digital audio player. Many
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| Sunglasses underwent the change into the
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| | blind people now wear sunglasses, and
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| popular item they are today when Sam
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| | many recognizable celebrities can be
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| Foster introduced them to America in
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| | found wearing sunglasses. Even fictional
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| 1929. These sunglasses were designed to
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| | characters can be seen wearing them.
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| protect people's eyes from the sun.
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| | Sunglasses have come a long way from
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| Foster sold his sunglasses on the beaches
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| | their early Roman and Chinese history!
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