Sunglasses for small heads

retiredhawk

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Hi everybody, first of all I've to be honest: I'm not a pilot, I joined my country air force as solder when I was young and I met some pilots at that time but now I'm a civilian.
I'm here to ask you a suggestion about good sunglasses with good lenses because I know the vision is fundamental in your job so I guess you can't be wrong with sunglasses. As I said I won't use them for flight but I want plano lenses with sharp and clear vision, no glare and possibly with a nice contrast.
This is my "problem": I've got a 21,26" girth head so it's very difficult for me to get a good pair of, eg, serengetis or maui jims because they fit almost huge for me, it's like I had a "visor" on my nose!
So what kind of sunglasses wears who's got a small head like mine here?
Thanks in advance.
 
Check out Baby Gap or Osh Kosh BGosh

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funny! this morning i've had a chicken bigger than that pink monkey cub for breakfast! anyway what about 52mm randolph? any small-headed wears them here? i remember some pilots wore them and they felt comfortable.
 
thanks guys for your suggestions.

i've googled and these are my results:
- maui jim's baby beach: 56mm(lens)+18mm(bridge)+56mm=130mm for a 6 base curve, sorry but i couldn't find the total width, anyway if SrFnFly227 tell us it'll be appreciated;
- 52mm original pilot AO: 51mm lenses, 20mm bridge, 130mm width according to the official size chart, i guess they're also 6rx base though i found no infos about that;
- 52mm Randolph Engineering aviator: 52mm lenses, 20mm bridge but no total width, sorry again.
the interesting thing's AOs are much cheaper than REs according to my local amazon prices!

as an additional information i pointed also to serengeti sortie: 52mm lenses, 18mm bridge, 135mm inside width (according to the linked page), 6rx, and they're almost identical to classic AOs and REs in shape, a bit bigger in size but have great quality lenses... well here're my 2 cents!!

i've red some threads within this forum and seen that serengeti velocity are very appreciated and i do love their shape. the problem is they've 60mm lenses, 18mm bridge and 8rx base curve so the question is: what's their real width? with a 8rx curve is difficult to understand. has someone get them?
by the way, what about wrapped frame sunglasses for small heads, i mean with 8rx base curve? can oakleys do the job?

see ya and fly high!
 
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