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4 Post author: DataPacRat 08 August 2015 03:10PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 09 August 2015 07:51:21AM 1 point [-]

For some years, I've worn a floppy boonie hat to shade my delicate eyes from the burning rays of the sun. (I've even been seen wearing it with a photographer's vest instead of a daypack while tromping around my hometown.)

Do you wear glasses? Because transition lenses (the kind that turn dark in sunlight and clear in dimmer light) helped me a lot with that problem.

Comment author: DataPacRat 09 August 2015 06:16:11PM 2 points [-]

I do wear glasses; last April, I discovered Zenni Optical, and picked up a pair of prescription sunglasses that I've been happy with. (I recently found some fashion advice that one's eyes should be roughly centred in one's glasses' lenses. I've preferred aviators for, well, as long as I've been wearing glasses, and am unsure whether this advicoid makes sense or not, but at least I won't bankrupt myself if I try to follow it.)

I have more troubles with the sun than just my eyes; I'm as fair and pale as you're likely to find, and will sunburn at the - pardon me - drop of a hat.