Let us do the sums on eyewear, because nobody does and it is the most poorly reasoned purchase in the bag. Most people own one pair, wear them in the wrong light half the time, and squint through the rest. The Attack answers that with a system, and a system is where the value actually sits.
The lens is ChromaPop, which is Smith's own tint technology: it enhances contrast and natural colour so detail separates from background rather than sitting flat against it — on a court, that is the difference between seeing a ball leave a racquet and seeing it arrive. Full ultraviolet protection, as you would expect and should insist on.
Then the mechanism, which is the line item that earns its keep. Smith MAG is a magnetic interchangeable lens system: the lens comes off and another goes on in seconds, without smearing the optical surface with your fingers, so one frame covers bright glare, flat cloud and evening light instead of three frames doing it badly.
Attack and Attack Max lenses are interchangeable with each other, which widens the ledger further. It is not a casual sunglass and it does not pretend to be.
It is a performance shield, built for speed and wind.
The modern town sits on the Cadmea, the citadel mound — meaning the whole present town is built on the accumulated expense of every previous one. Beside it stands the surviving tower of the Frankish castle of Saint Omer, which somebody paid for and somebody else knocked down.
Thebes is a place that teaches you to look at what a thing cost.
The Archaeological Museum holds painted larnakes from Tanagra, and every one of them represents a family that spent real resources on a burial. And the church of Saint Luke holds the evangelist's tomb.
One frame, three lighting conditions. That is not a luxury, that is a sound bit of accounting.
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