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I hate branding on glasses. I have a really old pair of Bausch & Lomb era Ray-Ban Wayfarers from back in the day. They have glass polarized lenses and 7-barrel
by wyclif 7y ago
I hate branding on glasses. I have a really old pair of Bausch & Lomb era Ray-Ban Wayfarers from back in the day. They have glass polarized lenses and 7-barrel hinges and they still look new, they've taken a beating over the years.
After Luxottica bought Ray-Ban and cannibalized their quality, introducing flimsy hinges and cheap plastic temples and lenses, they also started printing "Ray-Ban" not only on the temples but also the lenses. Yuck. Some people apparently love to display brands on their fashion no matter how cheap the quality is, but to me it makes it look cheap, tacky, and out of date (since in the time it takes for a brand to dominate in the way that Nike or Oakley and others do, they're already unfashionable).
- doctorOb 7y agoI was especially irked by this the last time I went to a Lensecrafters. They said it's because Ray-Ban now makes the lenses themselves. So I was shopping at a store front for branded frames with in-house lenses, all owend, operated, and produced by the same parent company (Luxottica). Talk about vertical integration!