NATIONAL SUNGLASSES DAY National Sunglasses Day is celebrated each year on June 27. Celebrate this day with summer’s most popular fashion accessory. Sunglasses help to protect your eyes from harmful UV light. Healthcare professionals around the country recommend eye protection whenever the sun comes out to protect your eyes from ultraviolet radiation (UV) and blue light, which can cause several different serious eye problems. Sunglasses became a fashion accessory in the 1940′s. Way back in prehistoric and historic time, Inuit peoples wore flattened walrus ivory “glasses”. They would look through the narrow slits to block out harmful reflected rays from the sun. Sunglasses started to become more popularly widespread in the early 1900′s, especially among movie stars. In 1929, Sam Foster introduced inexpensive mass-produced sunglasses to America. He began selling them under the name Foster Grant from a Woolworth Store on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Discovered by Edwin H. Land in 1936, polarized sunglasses became available.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:52:37 +0000
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