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Oliver Peoples has been in the eyeglasses business on and off -- mostly off -- for the better part of this century. Suddenly he is the hottest thing in eyewear. He is also dead...
...developed by the nonprofit American National Standards Institute. Some glasses now carry tags saying MEETS ANSI STANDARDS. But critics charge the labels are inadequate. ANSI divides sunglasses into three categories: fashion spectacles that shield eyes from only 70% of UV-B and less than 60% of UV-A; everyday eyewear that screens out 95% of UV-B and between 60% and 92% of UV-A; and special-purpose glasses that absorb almost 99% of ultraviolet rays...
...month by Beta Phase, a Menlo Park, Calif., producer of the metal, and Universal Optical, the frame's distributor. The frames, which revert to their original shape at about 130 degreesF, will be available early next year in the same $80-to-$130 price range as conventional high-quality eyewear...
...against snow blindness for the skier planning any length of time in the sun. Darker or neutral gray lenses with a light transmission averaging 20 per cent will screen the potentially-harmful untraviolet rays. For safety sake, these lenses should be of shatter-resistant safety glass or plastic. Tinted eyewear of ordinary glass offer an additional hazard to the eyes of a skier who falls or grazes a tree limb on a downhill...
...against snow blindness for the skier planning any length of time in the sun. Darker or neutral gray lenses with a light transmission averaging 20 per cent will screen the potentially-harmful ultraviolet rays. For safety make, these lenses should be of shatter-resistant safety glass or plastic. Tinted eyewear of ordinary glass offer an additional hazard to the eyes of a skier who falls or grases a tree limb on a downhill...