3-8 Sunglasses

Indoor pools run all year, which makes swim goggles one of the least seasonal things a child owns. Lessons in February, a lake in July, the same pa...

Water, pale sand and wet pavement throw light back upward, into the part of a child's view a hat brim does not cover. Reflected glare like that is ...

A child usually wants the pair someone older is wearing. The Classic is the same frame size to size, so that is a small thing to arrange rather tha...

Sunglasses only do their work while they are on a face. Everything else about a pair for a child follows from that, which is why this frame is made...

Bright water throws light back up into a child's face, and polarized lenses are what take the hardest edge off that. Worth knowing before you order...

The reason to put sunglasses on a child is the light itself: the flat glare coming up off water, sand and pale pavement on a clear day. Polarized l...

Bent back into shape more times than anyone has counted ~ which is the whole reason the frame bends. Children's eyewear has to withstand being hand...

One frame size here covers 18 months through 10 years, which is a long stretch of childhood for a single pair of sunglasses to sit across.The GRECH...

Sunglasses stop being a summer object the moment the sun drops lower in the year and starts arriving straight at eye level. That is as good a reaso...

Sunglasses only do anything for a child on the days they actually stay on a face, which is the whole argument for a frame that can be handled rough...

Frame width is what decides whether sunglasses sit properly on a small face, and this one measures approximately 12.5 cm across the front with 12.9...

Opening your eyes underwater is the step that turns a swimming lesson into swimming. Once a child can see where the wall is, the water stops being ...

Children notice when a thing is theirs. The Classic keeps the same frame shape in each size it is made in ~ so moving up a size means the same pair...

Sunglasses are not only a July item. Low winter light through bare trees and bright overcast afternoons both put glare straight in a child's eyes, ...

Swimming tends to be a weekly thing for years rather than a summer thing, so goggles earn their place by being easy: wiped down, back in the bag, o...

Some adult frames survive being scaled down to a child and some do not. The Wayfarer is one that does ~ the shape reads the same at three as it doe...

Laguna is one of the colors GRECH & CO. keeps returning to, which is what lets a pair of sunglasses land next to things a child already wears r...

Some frames commit to one color. This one does not ~ solid Laguna and tortoiseshell share the same frame, so it coordinates in two directions inste...

Worn, pushed up onto the forehead between goes, left there, pulled back down again ~ the strap survives it. That cycle is most of what a pair of ch...

Most of a child's time in strong light is ordinary time ~ the walk to school, an hour at the playground, a long afternoon in the garden. Eyewear on...

Category 3 is the lens tint level made for bright, open daylight: beaches, water, an unshaded playground in the middle of the afternoon. That is th...

The shape stays the same across every Original Round. What changes is what is on the frame, and here it is Scandi Floral.The GRECH & CO. Origin...

Three to twelve is a long stretch of childhood for one pair of goggles to cover, and the adjustable strap is what makes that possible ~ the same pa...

Children hold their sunglasses by whatever part is nearest, which is usually the rounded bottom edge of the frame. A pair designed for that gets wo...

Polarized lenses do one particular thing ~ they cut the glare that reflects back up off water, wet sand and pavement, which is the light a child lo...

Outdoors, a good deal of the light that makes a child squint is bounced light ~ off water, off pale ground, off a wet path. Polarized lenses filter...

The Classic is made from Baby through Adult in one design, so the frame on a two-year-old has a version that fits a teenager and a version that fit...

Fit matters most at the youngest sizes, since a baby cannot tell you a frame is sitting wrong. Atlas + Tortoise is made in Baby | 0-2Y and Child | ...

Putting your own sunglasses on is a small piece of independence, and it arrives sooner when the frame is forgiving enough to take a few attempts.Th...

One frame shape, drawn again in each size, means the pair a child moves up into is the pair they already recognize. Same Aviator, same Sand, cut fo...

Being able to open their eyes underwater changes what a child is willing to try: diving for something on the bottom, swimming a whole length with t...

Category 3 is the tint level most people mean when they say sunglasses ~ enough filtering for bright, open daylight, which is where children do mos...

A pair of sunglasses is only useful if it stays put while a child is busy doing something else ~ climbing, cycling, standing at the edge of the wat...

One size here covers 18 months to 10 years, which means a pair bought for a toddler is very often still the pair in use at school age. Eyewear that...

A frame that sits correctly on a baby is a different object from one that sits correctly on a teenager. The Iconic Wayfarer Ombre is cut in a separ...

Most of what makes a bright day hard on the eyes is reflected light, off water, off sand, off a wet road. Polarized lenses cut that reflection, whi...

Sunglasses go where a family goes in summer, and a good deal of that is near water. These are made for sun rather than for swimming ~ if they get s...

What makes a wardrobe hold together is that the colors were chosen to live with each other. Blush Bloom belongs to the GRECH & CO. palette, so ...

A child wears the pair they picked out. That is most of what makes children's sunglasses work, and it deserves as much thought as the lens does.The...

A child's face is not a small adult face, and sunglasses scaled down from an adult pair sit wrong on it. The Original Round is drawn to children's ...

Eyewear is one of the few things that can move from one child to the next without being resized ~ one frame, one fit, 18 months through 10 years.Th...

A pair of children's sunglasses gets taken off and put back on more times in a day than almost anything else a child owns ~ into a hand, into a poc...

A child's face is not a scaled-down adult face, and a pair that fits at three does not fit at eleven. The Classic is cut to its own age bands rathe...

A first pair of sunglasses has one thing to prove: that a child will keep them on. Weight, width and how the frame behaves when small hands take ho...

Goggles are usually the first piece of swim gear a child manages entirely alone: on, off, rinsed, back in the bag.GRECH & CO.'s Anti-Fog Swim G...

There is an adult size in this frame, which is not a given in a children's eyewear range. It means a family can end up wearing the same design at e...

Seven layers go into the TAC lens in this pair, polarized, Category 3 and rated UV400. That construction is also the reason water is the one thing ...

Sunglasses get filed under summer, but the hardest light of the year is often winter light, low and flat through a windshield in the middle of the ...

GRECH & CO. eyewear is available from baby through adult in select styles, and the Iconic Wayfarer Ombre is one of them ~ the same rectangular ...

Choosing a first pair is simpler when the frame does not have to be matched to anything. Tortoise sits with prints and solids equally, and the Orig...

Tortoise is a frame finish that has never belonged to one age group, which is why the GRECH & CO. Aviator is made in it from Baby right through...

Tortoise is the pair that gets picked up without much thought about it, because it goes with whatever a child pulled on that morning. That is usual...

Tortoiseshell is one of the few patterns in eyewear that never really dates, which counts for something in a pair likely to be passed to a younger ...

A pair of sunglasses only does its job while it is actually on a child's face, which puts as much weight on the frame as on the lens.GRECH & CO...

The Classic is made from Baby right through to Adult, which means the frame a nine-year-old is wearing is the same design as the one on a toddler, ...

Light bounces off water, sand and wet road at one angle, and a polarized lens filters that angle out. That is all polarized means, and it is why a ...

Two things decide whether a pair of children's sunglasses is worth having: what the lens actually does, and how the frame behaves once a child is h...

Most of a pair's life is not spent on a face. It is spent in a bag, in a pocket, in the side of a car door. The Classic is built in bendable TPE, a...

One frame shape carrying a child from the toddler years into the school ones is a quiet sort of usefulness: they grow into the Original Round rathe...

Children are particular about which pair is theirs, and choosing it is half the point. Tortoise Bloom is tortoiseshell with a bloom worked through ...

Children pick their own sunglasses more often than adults expect, and a pair chosen by the wearer is the pair that gets worn. This one combines Blu...

A tinted lens makes a scene darker. A polarized lens does something different: it filters the glare reflecting off flat, bright surfaces, so a chil...

A first pair of sunglasses has to sit on a face that is still very small, and a rigid frame rarely manages that well. A bendable frame gives where ...

Black is the colorway nobody has to plan around. It goes with the swim things, the rain things and whatever else is already in the bag, which makes...

Children's sunglasses spend as much time being handled as being worn: pushed up into hair, pulled off one-handed, passed across for someone else to...

Sunglasses only do their job when a child will actually wear them, which puts the fit and the lens on equal footing.The GRECH & CO. Aviator is ...

On a bright day, most of the light a child squints against is reflected light, coming back up off water, sand and pavement. Polarized lenses filter...

The wayfarer is the shape most people picture when they picture sunglasses. There is something quietly satisfying about a child having that shape p...