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These Folly Sunglasses JUST WON'T break!
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Feb 12, 2025
These Folly Sunglasses are marketed to be extremely durable yet extremely stylish! In this video, Luke is going to tell you if that's true, along with everything he likes, doesn't like, and exactly who they are for! Get your Folly Sunglasses here (Paid Link): https://amzn.to/4gnxoLc
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hey guys thanks for joining us here at
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gear 43 I'm Luke today we are looking at
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the Folly sunglasses from distal Union
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I've been trying these out for the past
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few weeks they were gifted To Us by the
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company by distal Union and uh let's see
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what I like and what I don't like about
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them who these are may be for but first
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let's get into what they are well uh the
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the Folly sunglasses are meant to be
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your go to classic WF far frame style
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sunglasses they have a keyhole Bridge
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here the frame and temples are actually
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made out of a material called narlon
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which is a I believe a proprietary blend
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from distal Union and so they don't
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actually tell you what it actually is
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but this is what I know about it it's
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really flexible so you can you can twist
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it you can bend it and believe me I've
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done that quite a bit it comes with 100%
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UV a and UVB protection in the lenses
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and the lenses are polarized I did do a
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check to make sure that's true you can
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uh like put them up on your computer
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screen and then turn them and as you
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turn them it should get darker I just
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found that out uh so now you can try
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that too to see if your polarized lenses
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are actually polarized uh the lenses are
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scratch resistant here's one really cool
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feature that distal Union just has a
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good grip on and that is magnets magnets
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magnets the they come with in the
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temples of the glasses they come with
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magnets and maglock built in which is a
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feature in um a lot of the products that
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they have you can pair these glasses
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with their Ferris system which is like a
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uh it's a wallmounted holder for your
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your uh wallet from them your glasses
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from them your phone case your keys they
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all uh magnetically hold to that holder
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so the magnetic uh the magnets are
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actually in the temple of the glasses
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I'm going to kind of hold them out here
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for you can see they're actually built
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into it so when you close them they lock
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together they kind of snap together and
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what's a a great thing about that is as
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you uh if you're going to wear them you
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could put them on your sleeve and
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they're going to clip and they're going
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to stay there or if you put them on your
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collar they're not going to move around
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there um so the the mag loocks are a
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great feature for this goodlooking pair
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of polarized glasses yeah that's the
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Folly let's look at uh couple things
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that come with those and uh this is
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something I really like but the case um
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it comes the case closes magnetically
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also on there and the CL the case is
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really nice it's minimal branding it
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looks really good it comes with a
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microfiber sleeve and and it also comes
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with a microfiber cleaning cloth all
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right well let's look at what I like and
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didn't like about the product uh one of
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the first things that I really liked
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about it and I think you might be too is
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obviously the classic way fa farer style
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frame with a key whole Bridge um these
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glasses just kind of you know this style
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of a frame is timeless it kind of fits
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with everything whether you're just
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grabbing lunch with some friends you're
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out hiking it just sort of mixes and
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matches with all those things so one
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nice thing about wearing these it's
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going to blend into whatever you're
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doing and sometimes that's kind of
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important you know uh you can get
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glasses that are super stylish for one
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thing or look really good in this one
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setting but kind of don't fit any others
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but this could go from work to lunch to
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Vacation whatever and this is going to
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and for most people you know weird
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shaped heads normal shaped heads uh
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these are going to fit and these are
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going to look pretty good it's not
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really a trend that's going to like go
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away another thing that I like about is
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obviously sort of the bullet proof
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nature of this glasses and this is this
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is really important to me because I
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destroy glasses and I've never purchased
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glasses more than $40 in my life because
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I lose them and I destroy them and so
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this is actually one of the most
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expensive pair of glasses I've ever had
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before and what I do like about these is
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if I sit on them which I do all the time
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I set them in the seat of my truck sit
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on them you have the frame that like
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those guys will bend and twist and they
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don't permanently stay that way they fit
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really nice together here's the next
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thing I like about it and I honestly
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think that you're going to like this
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about it too and that is one of the key
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features in distal Union and that is
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their use of magnets and maglock Tech
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and uh I don't know how many times I've
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taken my sunglass glasses off put them
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in my collar or on my sleeve walk into
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this store bend over they fall out or
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they're they're waving around but as
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these lock into place man you can you
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can uh you can be sure that they're
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going to stay where they go and a cool
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feature but also like maybe if you
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forget where you put it CU sometimes
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it's fun to like see what it will
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actually magnetize to and where it will
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hold at least that's what I found as
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I've been reviewing it is uh you may
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just walk away going man where did I
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actually put those sunglasses and they
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may be like sitting on some screw on the
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wall or something um I don't know or
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metal plate on your truck or something I
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don't know but what's cool about these
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you can affix these to any anything that
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uh is magnetized all right well this is
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the next thing that I really like about
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it and it has nothing to do with the
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sunglasses per se but it's the it's the
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protective hard shell case this is this
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is the the thing about cases for me I
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lose them all the time so I tend to just
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throw them away as I get them uh because
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if you're traveling it's nice to have
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this in your backpack I don't know how
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many times I'm in a in a plane I'll
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throw my glasses in the backpack cuz
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where I get to is where I'm going to
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need the sunglasses but it takes up a
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lot of room in your backpack when you
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are wearing the sunglasses so one thing
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that they did was really nice is this
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case uh it actually closes and lays down
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flat so when you do that there there
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it's going to take up like almost no
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room in your backpack which I think is
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stands out from other glass cases well
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let's now talk about some of the things
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that I didn't like about the Folly
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sunglasses and the the first thing I'm
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going to point out is um you know it's
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it's a rattle in the lens um if you're
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cleaning the lens there is a bit of a
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rattle in there and I think it's because
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of the tolerances this is just a total
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guess but I think it's because of the
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tolerances that have to be in there to
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keep the lenses from popping out out
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when you're doing this to them so it's
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part of the advantage that you have but
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um just know that now they haven't
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popped out at all there's no CRA there's
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no scratches in them anything like that
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but just know that like as you clean
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them you may think that it's falling
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apart or it's breaking but hasn't
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happened for me yet so it's not a big
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deal for you it's not a big deal for me
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the other thing that uh I don't like
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about it is really as I was thinking
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about it there're a great pair of
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sunglasses all the way around but if I
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was to give one CR seek it would be this
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sleeve um when I first opened this whole
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thing up I was impressed by the quality
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until as I'm like pulling it apart in
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the magnets until I got to the sleeve to
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me the sleeve feels cheaper than the
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sleeve I got from the knockoff pair of
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sunglasses in Cabo San Lucas you know
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out on the side streets um this was like
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10 bucks and this sleeve feels better
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qual quity and then then this one and I
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think actually looks better the little
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drawstring on here looks really cheap
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now it's not a big deal at all I tend to
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just throw these away um but this one
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I'm actually going to try to keep I I
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did try to do some research to see what
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material this actually is because uh it
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could be phenomenal material and I just
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think it looks cheap but uh yeah that's
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that's the one thing that I didn't kind
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of like about it was everything is super
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high quality and then you see this and
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you're like oh wait even the stitching
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kind of looks uh like you'd get it from
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just a local gas station honestly well
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so one thing that uh this is who I think
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this is for um and uh I just got proven
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wrong just a little bit uh I I'm
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thinking like these glasses are for
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everybody because the Wayfair style is
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just classic it's Timeless it's not a
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trend that's going to like pop up and go
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away and then like 10 years later you're
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like man throwing those pictures away
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where you're wearing that weird style
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these are going to last forever but um
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if you maybe have a bigger head they may
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not look too good on you you or you may
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want like a bigger size of a frame I'm
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not sure if they do come in a bigger
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size of a frame currently or not but uh
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I I I still think okay that these are
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for just about everybody cuz it just has
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a classic fit in style but that doesn't
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mean it's going to be perfect for you
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but you probably know that already cuz
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you've tried some before of that style
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or frame I also think if you're kind of
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a like you want a one pair of sunglasses
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to do it all to hike with to go grab
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lunch or coffee with friends take them
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to the office they're sitting in your
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truck while you're driving around your
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car while you're driving around I think
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these are honestly a solid pair of
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sunglasses for you cuz the construction
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the quality the design the features
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you're not paying $400 or even close to
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that you know they are reasonable price
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sunglasses UV scratch resistant like it
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goes on and on the magnetic that are in
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there um the the magnets that are in
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there and uh so I just think for like
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the person who wants like one pair of
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sunglasses to kind of just do it all
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these are a good option for you to try
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so I'd encourage you to give them a shot
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as I'm thinking about like who these are
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not for if you got a big head they're
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not for you maybe try something else
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well I think the person that this is not
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for is you if you have any concerns uh
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with magnets then these may not be for
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you you might want to go a different way
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or if magnets just annoy you and you
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don't want to have have them built into
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your sunglasses then you're going to
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want to go a different way but if you
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love magnets man grab these sunglasses
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they're an excellent choice well thanks
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for sticking around guys thanks for
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checking out this review of the Folly
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sunglasses make sure you jump on their
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site and check them out and uh hopefully
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this gave you a little bit of confidence
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in whether or not these are for you and
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