Frames are really a luck of the draw thing depending on what happens to look good on you. If your local Walmart happens to have a ~$100 frame that fits you, lucky you. I've searched high and low locally for a frame that looks good one me but literally couldn't find a single one. Ended up having to go online for Oakley RX frames. They're decently priced when you nab them on Ebay, averaging about $150 for the frames, (I've also landed some for less than $100) and the quality and finish is very high. I have 4 pairs of Oakley RXed glasses now (and 5 pairs of Oakley Juliets...4 sets of prescription lenses among them...big, big $$$, but I love Juliets). My most recent pair, an Oakley Why 3, which I intend to be my main pair, costed $350ish.
I've never heard of $600 frames...didn't even realize they existed. That is truly insane. And I thought Oakley's X-metal series was expensive.
More important than the frame though is the lenses...THAT is where you should be unloading money. So far I've tried Walmart lenses, Crizal Alize lenses, and Oakley lenses. For me, Oakley lenses are the ones to beat. I thought Crizals were nice until I tried swapping between a frame with Crizals and a frame with Oakleys...the Oakleys were noticeably sharper when looking at text, something I do all day long at the computer screen. Walmart lenses are really, truly terrible in comparison. Nonetheless the differences are small in general, but once you try a sharp, optically clear lens, it's hard to go back to inferior lenses. Kind of like headphones, when you start realizing those small details with a better headphone, it's hard to go back to what you had before.
I've never heard of $600 frames...didn't even realize they existed. That is truly insane. And I thought Oakley's X-metal series was expensive.
More important than the frame though is the lenses...THAT is where you should be unloading money. So far I've tried Walmart lenses, Crizal Alize lenses, and Oakley lenses. For me, Oakley lenses are the ones to beat. I thought Crizals were nice until I tried swapping between a frame with Crizals and a frame with Oakleys...the Oakleys were noticeably sharper when looking at text, something I do all day long at the computer screen. Walmart lenses are really, truly terrible in comparison. Nonetheless the differences are small in general, but once you try a sharp, optically clear lens, it's hard to go back to inferior lenses. Kind of like headphones, when you start realizing those small details with a better headphone, it's hard to go back to what you had before.
