I've had the same glasses for a few years, and would really like to get new ones. In my mind, the perfect glasses for me were the "nun" or "granny" glasses I wore in the late 1960s. They were small, frameless, and lightweight.
Although manufacturers still make rimless wire glasses, the trend now is for them to have really big frames. They are too big for my face, that's for sure. Some people can pull off big glasses, but not me. I want the glasses my nuns wore in the 1950s and 1960s.
I'm spending a ridiculous amount of time learning how to measure glasses to help me in my search. So often, if I find a frame I like it comes in only one size that doesn't fit me.
I suppose I need to stop looking online. I've looked at most sites, and have found nothing. Or I find something of interest and the site doesn't have a "try-me-on" function. I need to start making a pilgrimage to local eyeglass dealers. Sigh. I dread interacting with sales people.
Here's a pic of me in 1970 when I moved to San Francisco and bleached my hair blonde so I could let it grow out like "Mountain Girl" did in that Ken Kesey novel. Note the perfect glasses.
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| Xmas 1970 |
It's so hard to find glasses that look good. I am going to choose mine in a couple of days. It will be nice to see again.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!!!
DeleteI have a large head and a small head, go figure. I need small glasses too. Have you tried children's frames? Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteI've never bought glasses online because I'm so picky when it comes to my glasses. I have to pick out new frames this month and I don't look forward to it.
It's a lovely photo of you:)
Good luck to you, too, with your glasses search. Thanks.
DeleteThat's a great picture! I love that you modeled your hairstyle on a Ken Kesey book. I bought my glasses from optometrists until this last pair, and I'm very happy with them. They were MUCH cheaper than any previous glasses.
ReplyDeleteI have purchased glasses on line once before and I was happy with them. This time, though, I want those nun glasses.
DeleteNoted. Agree. Fingers crossed for you.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteI've just replied to your latest Tone Deaf comment and decided I had to return the favour whatever you've posted about. As it is a strange sort of synchronicity has developed between us.
ReplyDeleteA decade ago Veronica and I were lunching in Birmingham (that's the UK Midlands not Alabama) prior to an afternoon concert at the city's wonderful music hall. My eye lighted on a young woman two tables away whose hair grooming and whose manner of speaking forcefully to her (male) table companion were details I realised would last for ever in my memory. I described her in some detail in Tone Deaf and she became Lindsay, the central character in the novel I've been writing ever since. Lindsay is characterised by a desire to kick the arses of all the sneering males she comes into contact within the world of finance. She becomes wealthy and leaves behind her a lot of sore arses. Then comes a huge switch in the story which is where I am at the moment, 80,000 words in.
But I needed an extra detail that somehow reinforced her character and I decided to give her glasses. For I too had been a pondering a choice of reading glasses and had chosen narrow slot-like frames. The style doesn't seem to be favoured by women thus I was able to turn them into features on Lindsay that hinted at her aggression.
At one point Lindsay is talking to a very successful Australian (verb. sap: who speaks a different English accent) business woman and the effect of Lindsay's glasses crops up. The Aussie refers to them as "rictangular lenses" and lo, I had a title for my novel.
In my re-comment to your comment in Tone Deaf I use an Australian sentence. "Good on yer." I just throw that in.
OK, I'm really liking Linsday. You better finish that novel so I can read it!!
DeleteColette: Just in case Natural Selection intervenes I'll have them send you the unfinished MS. Half a cake is said to be better than no cake at all.
DeleteTry shopping at VintageOpticalShop.com.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
DeleteMy original comment was something like, might there possibly be someone selling vintage eyewear? Well well.
DeleteI would think AI would be able to suggest the "perfect" eyeglasses for you and be able to tell you where to get them. Or send your preferred eyeglasses photo to Google and let it find them or you. As much as I hate the idea of AI, it is occasionally useful.
ReplyDeleteIt is occasionally useful. I sometimes use it for genealogy.
DeleteO my goodness! Christmas in 1970! At that time, I had a pair of glasses something like those that John Lennon wore but mostly I wore contact lenses out of vanity. When I could no longer tolerate the contact lenses, I bought a pair of those wonderful rimless glasses and wore that style until I had cataract surgery in 2016. Now I only wear glasses at home for reading and at my laptop. I hope you find the glasses you are searching for!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Amanda.
DeleteGood luck in your search. I don't have any trouble getting alternatives to the large coloured frames. But I agree with you that although they're very trendy they just look wrong on a lot of faces.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your search. I get new glasses every couple of years from one of the local vendors. I almost always get two pair of the same style--which is to say, not at all trendy.
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