Custom Polarized Sunglasses for Men – Wayfarer, Combined Material Frames
Written by Cedric
Every March, the Restock Emails Start Coming In
Every March, right on schedule, the emails arrive. North America first, then Europe, then Australia. After reading enough of them, you start to see the pattern: last year's hot styles barely get mentioned. The wayfarer is always on the list.
That is not luck. This frame shape has been selling for over half a century, and it covers everyone from guys in their twenties to men past fifty - beach days, long drives, everyday wear. For your business, that adds up to something rare: a style that moves volume year-round without eating your marketing budget.
The downside of a proven staple is brutal competition. The same shape sells anywhere from two dollars to thirty, and photos won't tell you the difference. What you actually need to verify are two things: whether the lenses pass the traffic light test, and whether the metal parts still look right after two months of wear. Let's take them one at a time.
The Traffic Light Test: Where Polarized Lenses Pass or Fail
Most buyers checking polarized sunglasses ask one question: is it actually polarized? The question that decides whether your shipment sells in Europe is different: can the wearer still tell a red light from a green one?
EU regulations require sunglass lenses to preserve traffic signal recognition, and that requirement sits inside EN ISO 12312-1. The logic is simple - a driver who sees a red light as dark brown, or a green light as grey, is a driver about to have a bad day. When a polarized lens is made poorly, whether through bad dye chemistry or stress in how the polarizing film is laminated, this is exactly the kind of color distortion that shows up. Get caught in an EU inspection and the consequences range from a customs hold to a forced delisting of products already on shelves.
Polarized lenses are batch-tested for signal light detection at our factory, and the records stay on file - ask for the report and you get it. Your end customer drives wearing these men's sunglasses, and the colors they see through the lens are accurate. If that ever went wrong, it would be your name taking the hit in that market, and neither of us can afford that.
Cat.3 Polarized Lenses: The Right Grade for Beach and Driving
This model ships with Category 3 polarized lenses. Lens category is something overseas markets take seriously, and buyers who understand it make better decisions: Cat.3 sits right in the sweet spot for bright sun and daily driving. It cuts glare hard without the tunnel-blindness problem of Cat.4 when the driver rolls into shade or a parking garage. In quite a few countries, Cat.4 is flat-out illegal to drive in.
What polarization does for the end user is felt in the first ten seconds: reflections off water, glare off asphalt, that white flash off a car's windshield - filtered out. The view stays clean. For beach sunglasses and driving sunglasses alike, that is the moment where the purchase pays for itself.
If your positioning runs higher, there is room to move up: Zeiss sun lenses are available as an upgrade. The standard configuration uses quality domestic polarized lenses. Both options are priced out on the quotation, side by side, so the difference is sitting in front of you when you decide. A volume line and a brand line are two different games - you know your market better than we do.
Combined Material Frames: A Price Difference Customers Can Feel
This frame is part of our combined material sunglasses range - acetate front, real metal hardware. The mix matters more than it looks.
Injection-molded frames all look the same on a shelf. Customers honestly cannot tell a four-dollar frame from a twenty-dollar one until they pick it up. A frame with an acetate front and metal parts is different: there is weight in the hand, and the shine on the hinges is something the eye catches without any help.
Customers do not need to know material names. Their hands do the evaluation for them.
For you, that perceptible gap converts into two things: room to set a retail price, and less risk of getting shopped against the $9.99 pair at the supermarket. Both matter when you sit down with a retail buyer. On colors, black and tortoise are our standard options, and we match to your Pantone references. Frame width and temple angles can be adjusted for your market - EU fit and Asian fit differ at the bridge and the pantoscopic angle, and we handle that distinction on our side.
How It Wears: 32.7 Grams and a Spring Hinge
When an end customer says a pair of sunglasses is comfortable or not, they are really reacting to two numbers.
Weight: 32.7 grams. For a combined-material frame, that is a figure worth putting in your listings. A full day at the beach is exactly where five grams of difference stops being a spec and starts being a feeling.
Spring hinges: The hinge uses a spring mechanism, so the temples open with a buffer and adapt to different head widths. Tight on a wide head, secure on a narrow one. There is also a quieter benefit here: if your order is headed to the gift channel, the recipient's head size is anyone's guess. A spring hinge absorbs that uncertainty and saves you a slice of returns.
Specifications
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Frame Shape | Wayfarer sunglasses, men's |
| Weight | 32.7g |
| Lens Width | 52mm |
| Bridge | 22mm |
| Temple Length | 140mm |
| Total Front Width | 145mm |
| Frame Height | 45mm |
| Hinge | Spring hinge |
| Construction | Acetate front + metal hardware |
| Lenses | Cat.3 polarized (Zeiss upgrade available) |
Who Buys From Us - and What Each Worries About
Brand owners: You want logo execution, exclusive colors, and drawings that stay private. Laser engraving on the temples is the standard route; metal logo badges are there if the line runs premium. NDAs signed without hesitation - your designs stay locked up here.
Importers and wholesalers: You care about reorder consistency and lead time. The frame that lands in your warehouse this March needs to match the one next March, same color, same finish. That level of control only exists when one factory runs the whole chain, and we keep retained samples from every batch for exactly this reason.
Retail chains: You care about complaint rates. Signal light testing, hinge cycling, lens surface inspection - every pair passes through these before packing, so what reaches your stores has already been filtered once.
Gift and promotional buyers: You care about budget and packaging. We have worked with the same packaging suppliers for years - cases, pouches, branded boxes - and the rates come out below what you'd pay sourcing them on your own. Small batches get the same packaging options.
New Designs Every Two Months
Our development team releases a new batch of designs every two months, and everything from acetate cutting and metalwork to assembly and QC happens in-house. A sample revision takes days, not a month. If you follow that rhythm, your collection keeps rolling forward instead of betting a year's budget on one style. For brands building a full line, our OEM & ODM service covers everything from frame adjustment to bulk delivery under one agreement.
The Factory
Henggang, Shenzhen. Twenty-two years in eyewear manufacturing, over a hundred workers, and the full chain - acetate, metal parts, assembly, inspection - under one roof. That is what being a sunglasses manufacturer actually means when a buyer asks. ISO 9001, amfori BSCI, and SGS testing reports are photographed on this page, and you are welcome to go through the audits with us during a factory visit. Compliance paperwork is prepared per destination market: tell us where the shipment is going before the order is placed, and the documents are ready before the container is.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is your MOQ? Do you take small orders?
A: Standard orders start at 300 pieces per model. If you are testing a market for the first time, use our small batch trial channel - quantities and terms are negotiable. Sample orders to check quality carry no MOQ at all.
Q: Can we specify the lens brand?
A: The standard build uses quality domestic polarized lenses, with Zeiss sun lenses available as an upgrade. Both options appear on the quotation with the cost difference stated plainly.
Q: Is there a development fee for color or size changes?
A: Recoloring or minor size adjustments on this frame cost little or nothing. A completely new mold is quoted based on structural complexity - mold fee, sampling fee, and timeline itemized separately, with nothing hidden.
Q: How do you keep bulk production consistent with the approved sample?
A: The pre-production sample is confirmed and sealed, and bulk goods are inspected against it. An inspection report ships with every order. Third-party inspection (SGS and others) is welcome - if goods fail inspection, we redo them. That is where our responsibility starts and stops.
Q: How do we get a quotation?
A: Email Leah@leeyewear.com with the target model, quantity, and customization requirements. A quotation with lead time comes back the same day.
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