Classic Wayfarer | Flexible Polarized Sunglasses | Fog
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Pieces Of Everyday Magic ~ A Childhood, Not A Season
Pieces Of Everyday Magic
Same palette every year, prints shared across spring, summer, autumn and winter, that pair perfectly no matter the age, gender or weather.
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Children are particular about which pair is theirs, and choosing it is half the point. Tortoise Bloom is tortoiseshell with a bloom worked through ...
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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...
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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...
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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 | ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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The front section is the part that falls forward over a drawing, a book, a bowl of cereal. Snap clips are the simplest answer to it, and having thr...
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Whether a bow actually stays put in fine hair is the whole test of it. The Fable Bow sits on an alligator clip rather than a slide, so it takes hol...
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Mid size is the one that gets worn most ~ big enough to read as a bow, small enough not to overwhelm a small head or a thin braid.The GRECH & C...
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It goes on last, takes a second, and is usually the part the child gets to choose. A fair amount of ceremony for a hair clip.The GRECH & CO. Fa...
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A bow picked out in the morning has two jobs: hold fine hair without sliding loose, and still look like itself by the afternoon.The Fable Bow in Mi...
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Crouching is the default outdoor position ~ over a drain, over a snail, over whatever has collected at the bottom of a puddle. The dropped back hem...
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There is a difference between a jacket that manages a drizzle and one that holds through a morning of real rain, and it is measurable. This one is ...
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The walk to school, the park afterward, the long way home: none of it stops because it started raining. A jacket that holds up is what keeps the pl...
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Children wear the rain jacket they like. It is a low bar and an important one, because the jacket by the door only does its job if it is the one th...
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Children meet rain at ground level ~ crouched over a drain, hands in the water, following where it goes. The fishtail hem on this jacket is cut lon...
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Every piece pairs with past, present and what's to come, because the colors carry from one year to the next. A gift card lets them choose their own...
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The wayfarer is the shape most people picture when they picture sunglasses. There is something quietly satisfying about a child having that shape p...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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GRECH & CO. eyewear is available from baby through adult in select styles, and the Iconic Wayfarer Ombre is one of them ~ the same rectangular ...
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Lunch is packed long before it is eaten. Insulation is what carries it across those hours, and it is the reason this bag is built the way it is.The...
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Sandwich, fruit, a small pot of something ~ a school lunch is several separate things that have to travel together and arrive in one piece.GRECH &a...
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On a shelf of lunch bags that mostly look alike, a print is how a child picks out their own without checking the name tag.This is the GRECH & C...
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The bag goes out full and comes home empty, five days a week, most of the year.GRECH & CO.'s Insulated Lunch Bag in Sienna Gingham is a childre...
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Lunch does not only happen at school. The same bag goes on day trips, to the beach, and into the car for a long drive.The Insulated Lunch Bag in Su...
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Kids' smock ~ sleeves that clasp short or long, so the paint stays off everything underneath. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rath...
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Kids' smock ~ sleeves that clasp short or long, so the paint stays off everything underneath. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rath...
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Kids' smock ~ sleeves that clasp short or long, so the paint stays off everything underneath. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rath...
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Kids' smock ~ sleeves that clasp short or long, so the paint stays off everything underneath. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rath...
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Kids' smock ~ sleeves that clasp short or long, so the paint stays off everything underneath. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rath...
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Kids' smock ~ sleeves that clasp short or long, so the paint stays off everything underneath. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rath...
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Kids' slippers ~ a grip sole for the school cloakroom and the kitchen tiles at home. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rather than r...
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Kids' slippers ~ a grip sole for the school cloakroom and the kitchen tiles at home. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rather than r...
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Kids' slippers ~ a grip sole for the school cloakroom and the kitchen tiles at home. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rather than r...
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Kids' slippers ~ a grip sole for the school cloakroom and the kitchen tiles at home. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rather than r...
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Kids' slippers ~ a grip sole for the school cloakroom and the kitchen tiles at home. One size, and it sits with the rest of the range rather than r...
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Ears are the part that feels the cold first, and a hat only helps if it stays down over them. The wide rib is what does that work ~ it opens to go ...
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There is a version of getting out the door where the hat goes on once and is not thought about again. Most of that comes down to how it is knitted....
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GRECH & CO. makes this beanie in a Baby size and a Kids size, in one knit and one color. The Fern on the smaller one is the Fern on the larger ...
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Warmth is the straightforward part of a children's hat. Staying comfortably on the head is the rest of it, and that is a knitting decision.GRECH &a...
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100% polyester, knitted in a wide rib: that combination is why this beanie stretches on easily and then holds where it was put.The GRECH & CO. ...
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A front zipper is a small design decision with a daily consequence: the pull tab has to work in wet hands, because at the water's edge those are th...
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Swim rarely happens once and then stops. It arrives in runs: three days of lessons, then a week by the water, the same suit back out each morning s...
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The print a child wears at four is still made at eleven. Pegasus runs from 6-12 months to 10-12 years, the same drawing size to size in between.GRE...
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Handed down, a swimsuit only works if it still looks like the one on the shelf.The GRECH & CO. Long Sleeve Rashguard Ruffle Swimsuit in Scandi ...
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The care routine is short enough to remember at the end of a pool day: inside out, 30°C, hang dry, nothing hot.The GRECH & CO. Long Sleeve Rash...
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Swimming asks a lot of a garment. Full overhead reaches, a child hauled up onto the side and straight back in, and every bit of it wet.The GRECH &a...
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Some children get in and stay in. A long sleeve rashguard is for those swims, when the water is where the whole afternoon happens and coming out is...
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Swim lessons midweek, the lake in August, the shallow end at the far side of a long afternoon. A rashguard earns its place by being the one thing t...
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In a lot of families the swim bag never fully gets unpacked ~ lessons on a Tuesday, the pool on the weekend, and whatever the next few months turn ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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From Janet
We believe in designing Pieces Of Everyday Magic that will travel through childhood over time. Pieces that will collect stories and share adventures with children and families around the world.
Everyday essentials that live calmly in each room of the home, where each print carries its footprint cohesively from the entryway to the kitchen table to the closet ~ a universe that blends the aesthetic preferences of a child and an adult.
We look forward to sharing more of our plans on how we want to grow our community together, and how we will continue to share our movement and purpose through A Childhood, Not A Season. I hope you join us and share in Pieces Of Everyday Magic ~ The Movement.
Most Warmly,
Janet Grech
Founder + Full-Time Mama of Four
GRECH & CO. | Pieces Of Everyday Magic