Looking Back To Move Forward: Revisiting the History of Sunglasses and Business Tips for Your Retail Business

For quite awhile now, we at GotShades.com have been showing you how to turn your wholesale sunglasses into cash. And the best way for you to achieve maximum profit is by starting your own sunglass retail business. We’ve handed over to you a couple of tips and tricks on different things that would really matter for your business start up.

Missed our business guide? Find your way to them by clicking on the links below.

The Golden Rule of Retailing

How to Be the Best Sunglasses Reseller on the Planet

Bright Ideas to Creatively Promote Your Products

Opening a Retail Store: Hiring 101

Opening a Retail Store: Location Hunting

Simple DIY: Creating a Unique Display Board

4 Essentials to Creating an Attractive In-store Display

Shall we take a breather from anything and everything that’s business?

Today, we’ll take you to a trip down memory lane. Take a look at the often untold history of sunglasses. Surely, you will learn to love and appreciate your business more once you’ve made that effort to get to know not only the current and upcoming industry trends but the actual product.

Here are four distinct points in history that brought about the current sunglasses as we know them today:

• Inuit people made use of flattened walrus ivory to protect their eyes from the rays of the sun. Slits were drawn from each eyepiece to allow them to see.
• Emperor Nero, of the Roman Empire, made use of emeralds to watch gladiator games by looking through them.
• During the 20^th century, Chinese judges concealed their facial expressions by wearing crystal glasses
• Individuals inflicted by syphilis were the first ones to don the modern sunglasses. These tinted spectacles were prescribed in order to help with their sensitivity to light.

Fun Facts

§         An informal study revealed that about 95 per cent of men and women wore sunglasses just to be able to anonymously stare at each other

§         Wearing sunglasses at night only adds 16.7 per cent coolness to an individual. More often than not, it just increases the odds of tripping by a whopping 100 per cent.

§         UV rays are not blocked in outer spaces. With that, astronauts are made to wear gold plated sunglasses to protect their eyes from harmful rays.

Do you know of other terms used for sunglasses? Can you name famous individuals only through their eyeglasses? Take a look at the infographic below to fill you in on this information. 

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