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Finished sunglasses ready to be boxed and shipped to retailers, nose pads and all. “We have lots of different nose pads — for example, Asian faces need a thicker, more comfortable nose pad, because their noses are often wider than typical Europeans,” says Thamm. “We have I think more than 28 nationalities working here, so we have people with all kinds of faces trying on frames during the prototyping phase.”