The Ray-Ban Wayfarer Sunglasses Guide

For a more comprehensive guide, check out our written guide: http://gentl.mn/wayfarer-guide Today, wayfarers are one of the most sold and most popular sunglasses on the planet. People like JFK, Bob Dylan, have worn them even Andy Warhol loved them, however, it wasn't always like that. In the 70's, the wayfarers almost disappeared completely from the market space and they were originally designed in 1952 and launched in the market in 1956. The company behind the wayfarers was Bausch and Lomb which was the parent company to RayBan. They were also one of the first sunglasses to be injection molded which was a new process but today, that's the standard. Surprisingly, the shape of wayfarers has changed a lot over time. Originally, it were much more cat eye-like but slowly and surely evolved in angle and the look I'm wearing here right now, which is around the 1980's. This tilt is also known as the panascopic tilt. The problem with these sunglasses was that you couldn't really wear them on your head without them falling down and so RayBan decided to create a new design that would mitigate that issue. They introduced the design RB2132 which you can see right now and not only did it get much smaller, it also lacked the distinctive cat eye look and from the side, you can see the angle was different too. After declining sales in the 70's, the real breakthrough came in 1981 and the actors in Blues Brothers wore them. The sales in '81 were about 18,000 pairs of wayfarers per y