Ray-Ban Sunglasses

Ray-Ban began as a piece of equipment. In the 1930s, US Army Air Corps pilots were coming back from high altitude flights with headaches and nausea from the glare, so Bausch and Lomb was asked to build something that would fix it. The answer, released to the public in 1937, was the Aviator: a teardrop lens shaped to cover the whole eye socket, in a green tint that cut glare without distorting color. The name said exactly what it did. It banned rays.

What happened next is the reason the brand still matters. In 1952 Ray-Ban released the Wayfarer, which abandoned metal for molded plastic and became one of the most recognizable objects of the twentieth century. The Clubmaster followed the browline look of the 1950s, and Justin, Erika, Hexagonal, and Round carry the same design language into current styles. These are not sport frames chasing a technical edge. They are shapes that have already outlasted seventy years of fashion cycles, which is a different kind of engineering.

Lens options include the classic G-15 green, gradients, mirrored finishes, and polarized versions that cut reflected glare off water and pavement. All Ray-Ban lenses block 100 percent of UV rays. Come to our Bartow or Valrico showroom to try them on, since Aviator and Wayfarer both come in several sizes and the difference between them is obvious on your face and invisible in a photograph.