A bit of a backstory first. I purchased a pair of Juliets back in '03 or '04 from a non-kiosk store in Tyson's II, which is/was an upscale Mall in N. Va. It took me a lot of trying on at various stores to finally find a pair to fit my enormous head(my hat size is 8 - 8 1/2 depending on the brand) and fell in love with the Juliets. Until 2 years ago I never put another pair of Juliets on my head but at a BBQ someone else had a pair and we struck up a conversation. After a while I thought something was a bit off with his and sure enough I tried them on to find out they were entirely to small for my face. This sparked up a debate as to who had the fakes but they were both old pairs, purchased at a Sunglasses Hut type store and were still in near mint condition despite being nearly 10 years old at the time. A few months later I had a near repeat of the same conversation with another person and I was able to really examine the difference and it was as if mine were a perfect copy of his at about 120% the size. I now accept they were fake(for reasons below), but like I said I bought them in a retail store at a higher end shopping mall and the build quality was tremendous, showing very little wear after 11 years so discovering they weren't genuine came as a shock.
Well at the end of last summer I finally made a fatal error by wearing my glasses on the boat and then jumping into the water with them resting on my head. 99.9% of the time I have cheap glasses that don't matter if they are lost or damaged however now there's likely a stylin catfish swimming around rural Kentucky. I have since emailed Oakley who all but confirmed that what I was describing were indeed fake because I was told they did not make Juliets in different sizes. So now that summer is approaching I'm in the market for a new pair however where I live now there's not much in the way of shopping and the limited supply of Oakley I have found are all way too tight.
I'd greatly appreciate any advice or insight on what model(s) would be good for a head of my size I am partial to a full frame and do like the look of the Badman but I cannot locate a pair anywhere to try the fit.
Well at the end of last summer I finally made a fatal error by wearing my glasses on the boat and then jumping into the water with them resting on my head. 99.9% of the time I have cheap glasses that don't matter if they are lost or damaged however now there's likely a stylin catfish swimming around rural Kentucky. I have since emailed Oakley who all but confirmed that what I was describing were indeed fake because I was told they did not make Juliets in different sizes. So now that summer is approaching I'm in the market for a new pair however where I live now there's not much in the way of shopping and the limited supply of Oakley I have found are all way too tight.
I'd greatly appreciate any advice or insight on what model(s) would be good for a head of my size I am partial to a full frame and do like the look of the Badman but I cannot locate a pair anywhere to try the fit.
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