how they hang, thoughts on how to size, a note on color, and guarantee

HOW THEY HANG-- when you don't need them, just pull them apart at the bridge and let them fall down around your neck, as seen in the photo above. The adjustable headband keeps them right at hand.

HOW TO SIZE-- this is a little tricky. I will use myself and my friend as an example.

I have a big head and take a bigger hat size than my friend. I can comfortably wear Clic Original, in regular colors and black long, Classic, 1/2 Frame, Sonoma, and XXL. So I wear a bigger hat than my friend, but I can wear ALL the CliC readers comfortably. They all adjust to fit me.

When my friend wears one of my baseball caps, he has to shorten and tighten the strap in the back. So his hat size is smaller than mine... however his head is shaped differently somehow. Although he has to tighten up my baseball cap if he wears it.... he cannot wear the Originals that fit me fine... they are too narrow for him and they pop open in the front. He can wear the Classics but they're kind of snug in both length and width. He is most comfortable in the XXL... he said "these are perfect." We can both wear the sunglasses and the goggles fine.

IN SUMMARY-- it depends on the shape of your head around your eyes and the shape of the lower part of the back of your head. EACH STYLE WE SELL IS ADJUSTABLE FOR MOST PEOPLE INCLUDING MY BIG HEAD. But if they don't fit, you can send them back and try a different style until you find one that does.

So my best advice is to simply order the style you like... they will most likely fit. If you get them and they don't fit, email us, and we'll send you a different style to try, with a prepaid call tag for the original pair.... so you only pay shipping once, in your original order (and there's free shipping on two or more pairs remember!). If you are one of the few people with that odd shaped head, you are welcome to keep trying them until you find the ones you like!

A NOTE ON COLOR, DURABILITY, AND OUR GUARANTEE-- We offer every factory made color and style available.

If you run across other colors or frankenstein lens/frame combinations online, they are custom dyed by that vendor using water soluble dye, and reassembled from mixed parts. Some CliC parts are interchangeable allowing creation of new variations. We limit our creativity to swapping lenses, where interchangeable, so that we can offer sunreaders in every color frame, for example, instead of just in light tortoise, which is actually the only sunreader color offered by the manufacturer.

The same vendor advised us that they use scrubbing bubbles and a soft toothbrush to clean areas on the metal frame and headband that may get gunked up from hairspray or lotions. We haven't tried that yet, not having had that issue personally. The manufacturer says to clean with a microfiber cloth.

We have found our standard CliC frame colors to be quite durable. The one exception, in our PERSONAL experience, was a pair we kept hanging on the rear view mirror in the car for months, and with that extreme heat and sun exposure it did start losing some of its color coating, reverting to clear. When asked, the manufacturer recently wrote to us saying "the color can fade over time especially with exposure to the sun. Keep in mind our readers are colored either by paint, dye or injection." The pair we had the issue with, after the extreme sun exposure and heat, was a pair that had the color dyed onto the clear frame. So if this is a concern to you, email us and we can recommend some styles/colors that are colored by injection, not by coating a clear frame.

Overall, we have found the CliC product to be extremely durable and well made.

The manufacturer's guarantee is for three months from date of purchase, against any manufacturer's defects. We are happy to extend that with our "satisfaction guarantee." They are a relatively inexpensive eye wear product, but we guarantee that you will feel you get your money's worth out of them. That doesn't mean they'll last forever-- but only you know how much, and in what conditions, they have been worn and stored. If you don't feel that they meet your expectations for what you paid, and that you did not "get your money's worth," please let us know and we will be happy to work something out for you.

That is true for ALL the products we sell, not just CliCs, by the way.