These Eye(glasse)s

I read about the cheap online glasses thing a while ago and have been seriously considering it. My vision is terrible (-9.5 in the bad eye) so I wear contacts 95% of the time. My aunt worked at an optometrist's office last time I got glasses and said everyone checked them out when they arrived because of the engineering marvels necessary to make them wearable. She got them for me wholesale and they were still like $140.

Can I really get ~ $20 glasses in my terrible prescription, different in both eyes, with lenses that aren't an inch thick and super heavy?

pp, you are lucky your insurance even covers glasses! i don't have any, but when i did, it only covered exam, with a $15 copay.

My insurance also doesn't cover glasses, hence my resorting to trying stuff out online this year. I do get $50 off eye exams but nothing for the frames or lenses.. I ordered five pairs of glasses and spent about $85 (US) all told. I feel the quality is *slightly* less than the $150 pair of glasses I bought in a store in Toronto, but for $130 in savings per frame I am PERFECTLY HAPPY to accept that. I am careful with my glasses generally and the plastic frames I bought feel every bit as stury as the old pair I have from Guess.

Joygoat, I do have a relatively mild prescription so I'm not sure about the options for someone with worse eyes, but I definitely have different prescriptions in each eye and that was no problem.
Looking at Goggles4U suggests that you can pay for thinner lenses: http://goggles4u.com/detail.asp?PID=27215 - see the three columns you can choose from?
What I like about G4U is the cost you see there includes frames and lens and shipping.

Zenni offers: Premium Photochromic lenses for (Clear indoors, darkens outdoors in sunlight ) $39.00
Upgrade to 1.61 index lenses for $17.00
Upgrade to 1.67 index lenses for $37.00
Premium anti reflective coating $4.95
Sunglass color tint coating (7 available) $4.95

I feel like I HAVE seen a place that let you upload an image or something but I can't find it. Maybe http://www.39dollarglasses.com/ ? Maybe they let you print out the frame and hold it up to your own face (which makes more sense, in terms of accurate measurements).

So in summary you may have to pay $50 for a pair, but $50 != $150! :)

http://www.lenscrafters.com/wcsstore/CustomB2CStorefrontAssetStoreLC/images/catalog/BV466B_6283055.jpg
http://www.lenscrafters.com/wcsstore/CustomB2CStorefrontAssetStoreLC/images/catalog/BV466B_6283063.jpg

kind of awesome, but $389.
also avail in black.

So you spent $85 on five pairs of glasses, or $13 for each pair?

FFS, I'll get seven and wear a different pair each day. Hell, I can even reserve a couple of pairs as my "rough-housing" pair.

yeah, I spent $8 ea on two different wire pairs, $19 or so each on two adorable plastic pairs (incl. purple ones upthread) and then $25 on a separate pair from Goggles4U ($25 included the "free" shipping; Zenni charged me $6.00 shipping for the other four pairs.) This is what I'm saying!

xp looooove the first ones tehresa!

oh yeah if you look at the first post to this thread you can sort of see the other glasses I ordered.

i just got my first pair of prescription sunglasses. ive worn glasses for 21 yrs. with drivewear.

http://www.vision3k.com/images/products/tag_heuer_roadster_9050-103.gif

i keep looking at the photochromic lenses in office window trying to detect change, but they always look sorta the same to me. (they don't start clear, they always have tint, but they get darker in a bright car, then even darker than that outside. er, supposedly.

so i ended up with a sort of rose colored metal with a plastic purple inset in the middle, and purple arms(?). i haven't found a pic yet and i'm too drunk to post a pic of myself but i will soon. so excited that i have a script to buy them online cheap now, though!

These are the ones I picked up last night! They're a little wacky in that the arms are two coloured stripes that are slightly different than the two colour stripes on the front, but I also kind of love them. I only ordered them on October 29th and they were ready for pickup last night, so good for Goggles4U for getting them made and shipped so fast! They were also a lot nicer to me, customer service wise - when I ordered with the wrong prescription (optometrists' fault, grr) Goggles4U refunded the full frame price and half the lens, whereas Zenni will refund only 50% of my total purchase price because they "can't fix just one lens" or some such crap. Oh well. Goggles4U also refunded my credit card instantly whereas Zenni is waiting until they receive my glasses (understandable).

Here I am:

http://i37.tinypic.com/afkjmc.jpg

It's so great to SEE!!!

i'm extremely conservative when it comes to glasses. it was a big deal for me to pick the dark pewter pair over one of the many black frames i was considering (thank you, laurel).

http://www.oftalcare.com/tienda/images/0VO3577__785.jpg
these are what i got.

Lauren, TZA's glasses-getting has reminded me to go to FF's and pick out some for me! And I should make use of my insurance in 2008. Maybe in a couple of weeks you can return the favor?

totally! i don't need any excuse to shop.

are those from a store or online tza? they remind me SO much of the ones you chose at the top of the thread haha.. I guess we can't shake our particular personal styles!

FWIW I ordered a few pairs of more "plain" glasses than the ones I got in the mail yesterday - they just haven't arrived, and these funky ones had :D

lex you are so lucky you have a perfect face for glasses! jealous :(

no no my dear I just take a thousand pictures til I get one semi-decent ;) I have worn glasses for such a long time though that I definitely feel weird looking without them!

http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l442/acrobins/glasses1.jpg
http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l442/acrobins/glasses2.jpg

one of my pairs (the others are similar black frames only not so rounded on top and the inside bits are black/white plaid)

I'd like to buy more MORE MORE glasses, with a bit more variety in colour. I've never tried this seemingly inexpensive way of purchasing online, but I don't think I would because my weird face makes it hard to find flattering glasses. On the plus side, my parents work for three unions (mom 2x unions, dad 1x unions) so I get decent coverage options on the more expensive frames in shops and stuff.

very cool!

yeah, i have a hard time finding good glasses, too because i have a giant head.

my sister is getting these and i am insanely jealous!
http://www.lafont.com/ContentPage.aspx?PageId=177

Ahhhgh! Oh sorry.

They were surprisingly...bright.

those are very cute SS!

I have a big head too but I've tried on 1,000 or so glasses in stores and so I know which shapes suit my face.. ordering online is a bummer because I see a lot that are just 1-2 mm too small for my head that I adore. Boo.

I don't know about those Lafont ones but maybe I'm too simple? I saw stuff like that on Zenni but thought it was just too much. Maybe my head is too big for a mega-intense frame.

so i just ordered these, but tinted, as sunglasses:

http://goggles4u.com/images/27463.jpg

really REALLY hope they look good, as i've never had prescription sunglasses and am super excited! $26 from googles4u!

yay wait til you get them, the packaging is hilarious but the glasses will rock! post pics!

I sent back all my wrong prescription ones and now I only have the blue half-rim ones posted upthread, I love them, but having had a taste for a variety I want MORE MORE MORE!!

i found a bunch of frames i like on zenni too (the sunglasses are from goggles4u). the problem is that my face is really narrow around my eye area, so there's not that many cool plastic frames that i can wear - i need around the 128mm mark. my mum has agreed to bankroll a couple of pairs as a birthday present.

joygoat-- you can definitely order super strong stuff online, from zenni, at least. toby has crazy thick glasses, and they didn't charge a penny more for getting it right. his sunglasses look great, mine look pretty good, although i have the same problem as rubyredd in that i wanted bigger frames and they told me my face was too small, so these are a little more on the practical side of things...

my friend told me if you have a really strong prescription it's better to go with a smaller frame so the curve isn't so drastic? something like that. i am not saying it right, but a smaller lens avoids a drastic shap (thin in middle and super thick at the edges).

so here are the frames i'm looking at getting:

http://zennioptical.com/cart/d_4530.jpg

http://zennioptical.com/cart/d_7785.jpg

http://zennioptical.com/cart/d_6348.jpg

http://zennioptical.com/cart/d_8061.jpg

http://zennioptical.com/cart/d_3019.jpg

http://goggles4u.com/detail.asp?PID=23035

http://goggles4u.com/images/23035.jpg

i looked at the 2nd ones! also really like those green ones!

yeah i'm not really sure about 1, 3, and 6. i love those green ones too, in theory, just not sure i won't look like a dork in them. but for $20 or so, it's worth finding out!

my friend told me if you have a really strong prescription it's better to go with a smaller frame so the curve isn't so drastic? something like that.

a larger frame will involve thicker glasses at the periphery. thickness can also be reduced through the kind of lens you get.

i want to do this but i am afraid. i know that when i go to the eye doctor i end up trying on like 20 pairs of glasses and 19 of them are wrong for my face or too small for my eyes or the wrong color or something. like how am i going to buy frames over the internet with this weird shaped head and huge eyes? i like the frames i have now but i need new ones, they are getting kinda grody.

harbl that is the same problem i was having - whenever i've tried on frames i'm lucky if i find 2 or 3 that actually look okay on me. i can't say this for sure since i haven't received any yet, but hopefully by getting frames with similar dimensions to the ones i already have, they should fit pretty well. and they so cheap, you only lose out on a small amount of money if they look really bad.

which is why i've always found buying glasses so fuckin stressful in the past: 'holy shit these are like $400 and i'm gonnna have to live with them for a 2-5yr minimum!'

yeah. this issue is one that plagues me as well! i haven't been able to bring myself to order the cheap ones online yet!

it's not even a cheap factor - when i got my glasses, i was willing to pay a decent amount of money because i hadn't gotten new ones in so long and the last ones cost about $30 total, but there was really only 1 pair in the entire store that i thought looked ok (and it was not one of the fancy designer pairs).

"a larger frame will involve thicker glasses at the periphery."

only if you are shortsighted.

http://www.designer-fashion-trends.com/img/sunglasses/prescription-sunglasses-2.jpg

eman surely meant:

http://www.archimage.co.uk/Images/Industrial/Welder_03.jpg

When I was about 10 years younger (and ironically, 15 pounds heavier), I used to wear these daily

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/babyfaced.jpg

I barely recognize me in that photo (babyface!), but I do still have those glasses around here somewhere.

I like those!

I have an eye appointment tomorrow morning and I'm super excited to pick out some new frames.

yea i have one in couple weeks. figure i might as well take advantage of the eye care insurance i have. i've had the same black wire frames for a while and i feel like i need somethng new. you need to change it up you know

I got these, in black - http://www.blackfin.eu/v10/blackfin/en/optical.asp?id=5PR673S54C396.

They are rounder than they look in that photo, but what really sold me was that they are super light and the arms are flexible. They are so comfortable! And I mean good looking, too, but I've never really gone the comfort glasses route and these are the best of both worlds.

Oh and yes, totally, bifocals. The doc had me hold a bottle of eye drops with tiny print on the label and then held lenses of the proper magnification in front of my regular glasses and it was a fucking miracle.

i just got glasses & they got scratched inside the case in less than 12 fucking hours. can I get them exchanged?

anything else would be terrible customer/warranty policy service imo

they're from lenscrafters :(

I take it they're not very good on service? My glasses broke bcz I was partying pretty wild with them, had them fixed on warranty by my optician - probably was some fault in construction that made them break so easy, still thought it v good service, no questions were asked.

how bad is the scratch? they're poor-quality lenses if they got scratched in the case (don't most lenses come with an anti-scratch coating type of thing??). if it's a pretty minor scratch you'll probably find you won't notice it while wearing.

if you have a simple prescription and lenscrafters won't give you a replacement, buy online - i've been wearing various pairs of glasses i bought online for the last 7 years and they're totally fine (just make sure you get the PD number with your prescription).

it's a small scratch but it's right in front of my eye and it's very noticeable when i move my eyes or my head.

posted on men's style thread already but last week i got new frames (the grayish-brown ones in the photo, not the black ones in the back) and i'm digging them, huge improvement from the shitty black wires i've been wearing forever

ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

I haven't used lenscrafters in years but I once sat on a pair of glasses and they replaced them.

http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/f/a/fantastic_man_13_motto_3.jpg

A long shot but does anyone have any leads on what specs Chris Dercon wears here? They're not quite the trad round like the Oliver Peoples Gregory Peck nor the ones where the arm comes in the middle of the perfect round, it's somewhere in between.

i'm sure i got a pair like that out of a cracker once

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1810/7079/products/OQ602_Oliver_C912_Front_grande.jpg?v=1490161706
^just bought these. the blue is more subtle irl

Nice!

cool. this is what i wear

https://d26hhearhq0yio.cloudfront.net/content/misterspex/produkte/grafiken/6482588_a1.jpg

i still love my SEE glasses that kind of look like wood frames w/ a nice matte texture but i am really ready for some circle frames. can't decide whether black wire or silver wire or rimless but i am feeling a perfectly round shape

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSCSKDDN4o0/