Sport wrap singles
BEALER Sport Wrap BL6608, Matte Black / Orange
- Lens 62 x 37 mm, frame 137 mm
- TR90 nylon, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- Matte Black frame, orange lens
4.5 · 1,226 ratings
$12.99
01For the road at four in the afternoon · 13 cards
BEALER Driving Sunglasses
The lenses on the men's wrap and the women's rectangle that warm the view and lift contrast: brown, gradient brown and orange, all polarized against the glare off a wet road.
13brown and orange lenses on this page
$9.99–$19.99across the page
5lens finishes
6frame colours
All 12 on the men's sport wraps shelfAll 11 on the women's rectangles shelf
The glare that tires a driver comes off the road, the bonnet in front and the windscreen of the car ahead, and all of it arrives lined up in one plane, which is what a polarizing film stops. The lenses gathered here add a second thing to that: a warm tint. Brown and gradient brown lift the contrast of a grey road and make the edge of a lane easier to hold; orange goes further and is the lens for the flat, overcast afternoon when the road has no contrast in it at all. On the women's rectangle the gradient is darker at the top of the 42 mm lens, where the sky is, and lighter at the bottom, where the dashboard is.
Two cautions come straight from the ophthalmologists and belong on a page with this name. A polarized lens can make an LCD dashboard, a phone on a mount or a cash machine hard to read at certain angles, because a screen emits polarized light too. And it is the wrong lens for driving at night, when you need every bit of light there is; the academy says a polarized lens after dark may do more harm than good. So these are daytime lenses, from $9.99 for a gradient brown rectangle to $19.99 for a wrap two-pack with an orange in it, and the case in the box is for the drive home after sunset.
What the rating on the lens means
UV400 on a lens means the lens is rated to stop ultraviolet light up to a wavelength of 400 nanometres, which covers UVA and UVB, the two bands that reach the ground. That rating is the whole of what a sunglass lens does about the sun; polarization is a separate property that cuts reflected glare and, in the words of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, provides no UV protection on its own. The academy also says a darker lens is not a safer lens and that the sun's rays pass through haze and cloud, so the number to read on any pair, ours included, is the UV rating rather than the tint. A pair of sunglasses is not treatment for any eye condition, and light sensitivity that arrived suddenly is a question for an optometrist or ophthalmologist, not for a lens.
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What the rating on the lens means
UV400 on a lens means the lens is rated to stop ultraviolet light up to a wavelength of 400 nanometres, which covers UVA and UVB, the two bands that reach the ground. That rating is the whole of what a sunglass lens does about the sun; polarization is a separate property that cuts reflected glare and, in the words of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, provides no UV protection on its own. The academy also says a darker lens is not a safer lens and that the sun's rays pass through haze and cloud, so the number to read on any pair, ours included, is the UV rating rather than the tint. A pair of sunglasses is not treatment for any eye condition, and light sensitivity that arrived suddenly is a question for an optometrist or ophthalmologist, not for a lens.
Every sentence in this note about the eye comes from a named public source. All of them, with the date we read them, are on our updates page.
BEALER Driving Sunglasses by lens
5 lens finishes, each one a link to the first card that carries it.
BEALER Driving Sunglasses by frame colour
6 frame finishes, named from our own product data rather than from a photograph.
BEALER Driving Sunglasses by lens width
2 lens widths on the page; read yours off the inside of a temple you already own.
Sport wrap two-packs
BEALER Sport Wrap BL6608 Two-Pack Z06, Matte Black/Grey and Glossy Brown/Brown
- Lens 62 x 37 mm, frame 137 mm
- TR90 nylon, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- 2 pairs in the box, $9.99 a pair
4.5 · 1,226 ratings
$19.99
Sport wrap two-packs
BEALER Sport Wrap BL6608 Two-Pack Z07, Glossy Black/Grey and Glossy Brown/Brown
- Lens 62 x 37 mm, frame 137 mm
- TR90 nylon, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- 2 pairs in the box, $9.99 a pair
4.5 · 1,226 ratings
$19.99
Sport wrap two-packs
BEALER Sport Wrap BL6608 Two-Pack Z03, Matte Black/Grey and Matte Black/Orange
- Lens 62 x 37 mm, frame 137 mm
- TR90 nylon, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- 2 pairs in the box, $9.99 a pair
4.5 · 1,226 ratings
$19.99
Retro rectangle singles
BEALER Retro Rectangle C2, Gradient Brown
- Lens 52 x 42 mm, frame 139 mm
- Polycarbonate, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- Gradient Brown frame, gradient brown lens
4.1 · 37 ratings
$9.99
Retro rectangle singles
BEALER Retro Rectangle C6, Brown Tortoise / Gradient Brown
- Lens 52 x 42 mm, frame 139 mm
- Polycarbonate, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- Brown Tortoise frame, gradient brown lens
4.1 · 37 ratings
$9.99
Retro rectangle singles
BEALER Retro Rectangle C4, Tortoise / Brown
- Lens 52 x 42 mm, frame 139 mm
- Polycarbonate, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- Tortoise frame, brown lens
4.1 · 37 ratings
$9.99
Retro rectangle singles
BEALER Retro Rectangle C3, Clear Brown / Gradient Brown
- Lens 52 x 42 mm, frame 139 mm
- Polycarbonate, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- Clear Brown frame, gradient brown lens
4.1 · 37 ratings
$9.99
5 more in BEALER Driving Sunglasses
Retro rectangle three-packs
BEALER Retro Rectangle Three-Pack A7, Gradient Brown, Clear Brown and Pink Mirrored
- Lens 52 x 42 mm, frame 139 mm
- Polycarbonate, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- 3 pairs in the box, $5.33 a pair
4.1 · 37 ratings
$15.99
Retro rectangle three-packs
BEALER Retro Rectangle Three-Pack A2, Matte Black, Gradient Brown and Clear Brown
- Lens 52 x 42 mm, frame 139 mm
- Polycarbonate, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- 3 pairs in the box, $5.33 a pair
4.1 · 37 ratings
$15.99
Retro rectangle three-packs
BEALER Retro Rectangle Three-Pack A6, Matte Black, Gradient Brown and Pink Mirrored
- Lens 52 x 42 mm, frame 139 mm
- Polycarbonate, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- 3 pairs in the box, $5.33 a pair
4.1 · 37 ratings
$15.99
Retro rectangle three-packs
BEALER Retro Rectangle Three-Pack A4, Matte Black, Brown Tortoise and Orange Tortoise
- Lens 52 x 42 mm, frame 139 mm
- Polycarbonate, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- 3 pairs in the box, $5.33 a pair
4.1 · 37 ratings
$15.99
Retro rectangle three-packs
BEALER Retro Rectangle Three-Pack A5, Matte Black, Tortoise and Orange Tortoise
- Lens 52 x 42 mm, frame 139 mm
- Polycarbonate, polarized TAC lens, UV400
- 3 pairs in the box, $5.33 a pair
4.1 · 37 ratings
$15.99
02Next to it on the shelf
The rest of BEALER that touches this question
sunglasses for women, sunglasses for men, fishing sunglasses: the neighbouring answers, each with its own frames and prices.
BEALER Sunglasses for WomenA 52 by 42 mm polarized lens in a 139 mm polycarbonate rectangle with metal hinges, in tortoise, gradient brown, clear and matte black, one pair at $9.99 or three for $15.99.11 cardsBEALER Sunglasses for MenThe BL6608 sport wrap, a 62 mm polarized lens in a 137 mm TR90 frame, in grey, blue, green, orange and brown, sold one pair at a time or two to a box.12 cardsBEALER Fishing SunglassesThe BL6608 wrap in the three lenses built for a lake: plain grey, and blue or green mirror coats over grey, all polarized to take the sheet of light off the surface.11 cards
03Asked before ordering
BEALER Driving Sunglasses: questions
What people ask us about driving sunglasses before they pick a pair.
Can you read your dashboard through BEALER driving sunglasses?
Usually, but not at every angle: an LCD screen emits polarized light, and at the wrong angle a polarized lens darkens it. Tilt your head and the display comes back. That is the same effect that lets you test the lens against a phone, and the academy lists it as the main drawback of the film.
Should you drive at night in BEALER polarized sunglasses?
No, and not in any polarized lens. The film removes part of the light, and at night you need all of it; the academy of ophthalmology says polarized lenses after dark may do more harm than good. The pouch in every box is for that drive.
One button, the whole BEALER range
Every lens colour, frame size and pack count in BEALER essentials sits behind this button, with the price from our last update beside it. Read the millimetres off a pair you already own, check them against the card, and the order goes through our retail partner.