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My Oakley interest and desire does not currently sit on par with my income level (one is less than the other - you decide which is where).
My friends think I'm crazy, but that is nothing compared to everyone else here (I mean that complimentary).
I got into Oakley at the start of the year 2000. A guy at high school had a pair of black Fives and he was telling me how Oakley were the best sunglasses. He brought in his Oakley catalogue (the 1999 catalogue) and I saw for the first time the Romeo and the Juliet. I was completely and utterly hooked.
Then, M:i-2 and X-Men hit, and the Ruby Juliet debuted. Oakleys were definitley getting cooler by the minute.
I went to a local surf shop that was selling their old Oakley stock at half price, so I begged my mum to get me a pair of Black Iridium Eye Jackets for AU $90. It was all downhill from there.
Everyone at school had Oakleys. Most of the girls had Minutes, and some guys did too. A few guys had Fives, but I was the only guy with Eye Jackets.
But then Oakley brought out the Twenty. The FMJ/Ice pair was all the rage for me, so I decided to get rid of the EJ's and invest in some Twentys. I was spending a lot of time on ebay browing the Juliet auctions. A local optometrist had a 20% off sale, and I went in planning to get the Ice Twenty, but walked out with the Ice Juliets!
I found the o-review with four pairs of Oakleys. (Ice Juliet, Black Juliet, Black Splice, Ruby Twenty). If you check out my collection now you will see the damage this place has done! I love it.
That's a shame. It appears someone on the oakleyforum pasted the first article's text into a thread so has kept it alive:
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Oakley, Inc. (NYSE: 00) announced today that it previewed the first model in its upcoming "X Metal" line, named "Oscar," last night to athletes and personalities who will be involved in marketing the product. The event took place at the company's soon-to-be- completed new headquarters in Foothill Ranch, California. Among the 350 guests were beach volleyball star and model Gabrielle Reese, world snowboard champion Terje Haakonsen, world surf champion Taylor Knox, NBA basketball players Sean Elliot of the San Antonio Spurs and Bo Outlaw of the LA Clippers, major league baseball players Tony Gwynn and Jason Giambi and 1996 Olympic medalists Kent Steffes, Allen Johnson, Kim Batten, Ato Boldon and Inger Miller.
"Last night's event was a successful combination of the core culture and technology that makes Oakley unique and distinguishes our products," said Jim Jannard, chairman and president of Oakley. "It is very encouraging to see our athletes and friends as excited as I am with "Oscar," seeing for the first time the physics of Oakley's technology wrapped in sculpture and topped with art," Jannard added.
The preview of "Oscar" was the first phase of the company's carefully orchestrated release of "X Metal." Beginning next week and over the next two months, Oakley will show "X Metal" to its most influential retail accounts, work with athletes and personalities to gain editorial exposure and begin to create marketing materials for "X Metal" and "0scar." The company indicated that "0scar"'s suggested retail price in the domestic market would be $250.
"Allowing time for finishing refinements to our design process and completion of engineering, we conservatively expect "Oscar" to be available in stores by the end of February, well before the spring selling season," said Jannard. "In fact, because I am so confident that we will complete and ship "Oscar" by the end of February, I have advised the company I will voluntarily forfeit my 1996 incentive bonus of approximately $1.0 million if "Oscar" does not ship by that date." Jannard added, "The company is also very pleased with its early success in producing "X Metal" parts, using a revolutionary process for metal eyewear, in the Nevada facility. This vertical integration in manufacturing is expected to have a positive impact on the company's already enviable gross margins."
The company also reported that at last night's event there was excitement at the surprise unveiling of Oakley's new "Racing Jacket," a sport-application model from the "Jacket" line. The "Racing Jacket" is characterized by a stronger hingeless frame, is more aerodynamic, sleeker and faster in design than current "Jackets" and draws on the performance features developed for the "Pro M Frame." The company expects to ship these new models by the middle of the first quarter of 1997. The "Racing Jacket" follows the recently released "Pro M Frame" and the new "Frogskin," which just began shipping today, creating excitement in the market for the new and distinctive Oakley product offerings.
Oakley is an innovation-driven designer, manufacturer and distributor of high-performance eyewear.
SOURCE Oakley, Inc.
-0- 12/12/96
Not so lucky for the XX article. It's cited as a source on a Revant Optics blog article, but they don't provide a link to any Business Wire news page. I tried to Web Archive the Business Wire site from early 2000 but it's a mess.
That LA house is amazing. How's the basement full of Oakley-style cabinets and movie-poster frames. Do I spot Hobbit-trilogy posters? (shot on RED).
I now know what style I want to re-do my kitchen and bathroom in, so they will finally match my single display tower. I haven't informed my wife of this yet.
Blast from the past, a couple of well-known (in cricket circles) Aussie cricketers wearing X-metals in 2001.
Adam Gilchrist in ruby Juliets (and a D1 watch...?)
Shane Warne (RIP) in 24k XX (there are heaps of pictures of Shane wearing heaps of different styles of Oakleys over the years, he must have had an awesome sponsorship contract).
Remember when Oakley sold the excess stock of these in the parking lot for $50 each? Hell, I bought a pair from eBay US for $70 (no box or coin). $2,300 - what a goddamn time to be alive.
IDW publishes books they call Artist Editions which reproduce comic art in 1:1 scale. Typically these books are around 13.25” x 19.25” in size. IDW went all out for the Todd McFarlane Artist Edition released last week, however. It tips the scale and also measures a whopping 13.38” x 24.25” for basically the same price as a normal version.
- Oak
I got this one too. It's massive! I also got the omnibuses of McFarlane's run on Amazing Spider-man and his adjectiveless Spiderman. Funnily enough as soon as I ordered them I got a good deal of original ASMs in fairly average condition from issues 304-328 (so missed out on the pricey 298-301 issues) from eBay.
I also sent a few comics to CGC for the McFarlane signing so have a few Spider-man #1s with his signature that I need to sell at some stage.
I don't think this has been mentioned in 30 pages of this thread - but a bad guy is wearing Cheetah Eye Jackets in the 1997 Jackie Chan movie Mr Nice Guy. It's one of Jackie's Hong Kong movies and was filmed in Melbourne, Australia.
- B3
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