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Article: NEW SUNGLASSES HAVE IT MADE IN THE SHADE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 17, 1995
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Byline: MARY GOTTSCHALK Knight-Ridder
How do we love our sunglasses? Americans snapped up 263 million pairs in 1994 ($2.5 million worth), accounting for more than half the sunglasses sold around the world. That's 123 million more pairs than were sold a decade ago, says the Sunglass Association of America, a trade group.
Perhaps it's because sunglasses are a universally acceptable mask you can slip on without anyone questioning you. Even after sundown, others may think you're affected but they seldom say anything.
Sunglasses afford a modicum of privacy to the very famous think Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson.
Sunglasses can ...