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Prescription user here:
Day to day sunnies (driving, out and about with the kids etc) are Vans "Spicoli", big old wayfarer type frames: £10-15 depending on which colour/pattern you buy and what time of year, bust the first pair on holiday after 3 years, went online and ordered a replacement pair which wa waiting when I got home, pop the lenses out and into the new frame, just keeping an eye out for a 2nd set...
Also have some (copies I think) Spy Helms bought off ebay for very little which I keep meaning to get reglazed.
Riding Glasses Oakley Jawbone copies or Bolle Spiders, the Bolles are actually lightweight safety glasses, and are available with tinted lenses so might make reasonable day to day sunnies for someone working outside a lot...
prescription sunnies - about what I'd spend on unshaded prescription glasses.
non-prescription, for when I've got my contact lenses in - about a tenner
They're Mykita Mareika frames with 1.74 index bi-aspheric lenses with a 15% tint and an antireflective and hydrophic coating. I have a -11.5 prescription and had a partial retinal detachment last summer. I bought them because when it's bright outside the pieces of my retina that detached are quite intrusive into my vision and having dark lenses helps somewhat.
When I picked them up my optician had also got me some new lenses for my cycling frames - gratis! I also got a print of the surgery scar patterns on my retina as well as they'd been very curious to see what had been done so we spent an hour with the retina camera taking pictures 😯
^ this.I am absolutely guaranteed to either sit on them, or leave them sat on a table outside the pub within a couple of weeks of buying them. And the more expensive, the shorter the timescale.
RM.
I treated myself a few years ago to some Oakley X-squared to the tune of £300. Also have a pair of 5's for riding that I bought 2nd hand for £40
37 years old and never brought or wore a pair. I wear normal glasses all the time and contacts for riding.