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Comment by appendix-rock | Hacker News Reader

I’m genuinely not sure how to say this without a little bit of snark, but do you…know how fashion works?

Sunglasses do seem to be taking the piss more than other items. An expensive pair of leather shoes can easily be justified by the cost of the materials, manual labor, build quality, and extended lifespan over cheaper options.

While sunglasses seem to be a bit of injection moulded plastic with some lenses for a 20x markup.

It’s mainly because of the Luxxotica monopoly.

If course, there are a lot of sunglasses that are not name brands and those a much cheaper.

For most clothing items, there are the luxury name brands, but then there are also affordable options like Uniqlo which sell basically the same thing for a very reasonable price.

For sunglasses, at least in Australia, you get the sunglasses stores that have $200-$400 nice looking sunglasses, and then $30 speed dealer sunnies at the servo. There's nothing in between and no one cloning the name brand styles for cheap.

It can’t just be from the Luxxotica monopoly. These things are not hard or expensive to manufacture.

For some reason, people think Raybans are an amazing brand.

Lol, this is HN after all. Our fashion icons are Zucky with a hoodie (backend) or Jobs with a black turtleneck (frontend).

Raybans? How do you see the screen with those plastic goggles on?

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