These Eye(glasse)s

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my new glecks are paul smith

this season & 50% off online against the in-store price

is glecks really a word that british people use or

this thread always make me feel like having one pair of glasses is so passe! and i'm still proud of myself for getting new glasses this spring after 4 years of off&on wearing the same old ones (mostly not wearing/not seeing). but i don't even know how i would go about choosing between different glasses on a given day. unless i had hot pink ones and glittery ones and severe ones etc, but then i'd feel like i was costuming up life too much? hm.

i don't even have contacts yet!

I have one pair! I haven't regularly worn glasses since sixth grade, up until this year. Then suddenly, I got glasses I liked wearing, my eyes have gotten drier, and now they seem like a good option!

I have a friend who has vision so wonky that he has to wear contacts AND glasses, and he has a habit of squinting or closing his eyes when thinking, because if he gets distracted his eyes tend to drift! He has a number of fashionable pairs of glasses. He is also an architect and lived in Barcelona for a bit, so...

only scottish ppl rrrobyn

sorry, but those oakleys are hideous. only cool sunglasses oakley ever made:
http://bikefag.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/andyhampstead.jpg?w=554&h=850
(want these, go for like >$200 on ebay though)

^^ Ah. An aristocrat.

i feel like i have to have more than 1 pair of specs because i react with pointless anxiety about coordinating stuff, srsly like UGH these glasses don't GO with ANYTHING I WANT TO WEAR, i can't wear black shoes with tortoise frames!? 1 option is not enough.

i am kinda silly that way

robyn, elmo: I do have about 15 pairs and yeah, some days I do get a little anxious about whether I'm ~choosing the right pair~ but it's nice to have at least a few options! I have a few: serious, funky, specific colours, nerdy, subtle.. I wear a certain 'perfect' black framed pair probably 50% of my time and rotate the others in off and on. I have a few pairs I just haven't worn for months because they fell out of my favour.

So yeah. No new glasses or even looking at glasses websites for me until my prescription changes!

I only have one pair in my new prescription but I'm getting my beloved Lafont "Darling" frames relensed after payday and I'm eligible for new frames through my insurance in Jan. I usually have three or four active pairs thanks to el cheapo internet retailers like Zenni.

btw dudes i took my contacts out, just fyi

:)

yeah i will look into getting another pair of glasses online now that i have a proper new prescription to refer to, but really i would (also) like contacts as a way to move btwn styles

so the ray bans i bought at lens crafters: i love them. have you seen the commercials for their fancy new system? they put this thing on the frames and take a picture and i thought it was a lot of hype but my vision out of those glasses is amazing. and the ones i'd ordered online using pd from the old 'look in the box' measurement i had done were really weird. i felt a little nauseous. too bad buying glasses in the store is so $$$$$ :(

Oh yeah, if you feel nauseated then those are not right. The crazy frames I bought over the summer that made me feel a little weird? Turns I mis-entered the PD and it was off by 1.5 mm. That little bit was enough to make them hard to wear.

You should get your PD measurement from your eye doctor and see if it's the same as the look-in-the-box measurement.

yeah i gotta see if the lc lady put it on my receipt for the glasses... i called my eye doc a while back and they said they don't have that measurement, i'd have to get it from an optician.

oh and i sent the other glasses back.

Those eye docs hold those pd's with a tight fist sometimes too!

I know! My eye doc was really reluctant to give me mine, and when she did, she gave me a stern warning about internet glasses. Then when I came back to pick up my sunglasses (that I spent plenty on, so it's not like I'm taking advantage of my poor eye doc) the optician raved about my new glasses until I asked her to adjust them because I had ordered them on line. Then she got very grim and told me she could adjust them, but they would probably break, etc. etc. Phooey.

Although I do get nervous having only one pair of glasses in my current Rx. What if I break them or lose them or I am looking down over over a railing and they fall off my face and into the river or a pigeon steals them??????

I think I love these?

http://www.coastalcontacts.com/glasses/frames/vera-wang-luxe-dietrich-bone-tortoise/prod27450.html

I like them a lot.

But do I love them?

For $38 I think you probably do.

Thank you.

Hey jenny, what is the actual frame width on those winged math symbol specs you got? I love them but I think the only way I could pull them off is as sunglasses.

(I ask because their measurements don't seem accurate online)

Derek Cardigan 7005. Coastal Contacts gives the frame width as (lens width x 2)+bridge measurement* without taking the actual frames into account. So that frame width only works if there are two lenses hovering the bridge-width apart in front of your face.

*I can do that because of the math symbols on my glasses, FYI.

Oh Jesus you asked for the actual width not the frame number. Sorry! I'll have to check when I get home but they are pretty wide. I've got a fat face and they look big on me.

jenny, get those glasses!

justine, the frames are about ~136.5 mm wide. I measured them with the ruler on the spine of the most recent Ikea catalog so that is just an estimate.

cool, that's good to know - i need frames that are no more than 130mm wide.

Fell trap to some new glasses site - Firmoo? - when FB ad said they had a free pair special. They were $8 glasses with $13 shipping, hell, I'll pay $13 shipping to get a cheap pair of trendy glasses! Picked out a tortoiseshell frame, will report back once received. /addict

First of all, hello Coastal. I don't know if I'm being targeted specifically because I'm logged into Facebook and gmail right now, or if Coastal just went apeshit with their banner ad budget. Either way, gives me another place to look around.

I can't decide on what kind of frames, if any, I should get. My current go-to glasses for public display are rimless, but the more I look at it, they make me seem like I'm wearing a metal nasal strip all evening.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/11-10.jpg

I don't want to go too thin on the height or I'll look like I should be wearing a skinny tie and suspenders, but I don't want to go too tall either.

Honestly, I don't mind the look SM is rocking here. However, those are the same kind of glasses worn by George Bush Sr., Jim Wright and the BTK Killer.

http://onlyangels.free.fr/interviews/m/malkmus.jpg

Gotta be something else in between. What do you think?

OMFG I got my glasses back from 39dollarglasses.com, the ones I sent to be relensed, and they TOTALLY FUCKED THEM UP. They melted the holy fuck out of the frames, fucked up the metal inlays, bent them so that they are convex (so bent away from my face at the nose piece) and to top it all off... put the wrong prescription in them! I am like MADE OF RAGE right now. And their offices are closed, which means I get to let this rage simmer overnight and reduce to a thick concentrate for the delightful phone call I get to make tomorrow morning.

woah, what the hell? So sorry for you :(

aw jeez :(

oh man, that is awful. so sorry, jenny!

trying online options on via virtual tryon tools and, for one, photoshop. eye exam later this wk, yay!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/j_bdules/Screenshot2012-01-09at82623PM.png

opinions?

#4, emphatically.

I like the 2nd!

4 or 3

I think I used to have the 2nd pair myself, they look exactly like the ones broke in Nov. I just think the squarer shape of the last pair is more current.

Ha, I like 2 and 3. We are not helpful on the aggregate.

Also, Julia you are super cute.

Sorry for crepe.

I'm getting somewarbyparker frames in the mail to try on this week, too. The last picture is from there, but I'm afraid that they're too angular for my face.

I really wish warbyparker had smaller frames–I look really silly in larger frames, IMO.

Ex post–thanks Jenny. I had to roll my eyes and smirk in order to take a picture that didn't look like a mug shot.

Much as opinions might be varied, they're really helpful. thanks!

2 or 4, def NOT 1

#4, but I think eye position might make some of the others look different than they would normally

IMO, #1's frames are too thin, and the bridge in #3 is too thick. I'm more into slightly squared than curved, so the winner is 4!

I'm opinionated because I've probably ordered 4-5 variations on the black frames I finally found A Happy Place with, haha!