I've had to get new eye glasses, not because of a prescription change, but because the right nose piece snapped off. I wore them cockeyed over the weekend, and then visited the optometrist's office, hoping they could repair them. No such luck. They advised me to take the pieces to a jeweler to see if they could be soldered back together, and I'd have a spare pair of glasses.
One of the women who runs the office for the practice took me back to a wall of frames and proceeded to choose seven shapes that I liked. Then we went to a mirror with good natural light, and she handed me three of the frames, and instructed me to select the two I liked the most. We kept on with that until we narrowed it down to two choices. Then, everyone in the office got to give their opinion. Luckily, everyone liked the pair I liked the best. The glasses will be ready either Friday or early next week.
I'll be glad to have them. You don't realize what that little variation in focus will do until you have to live through it for a week.
I've ordered progressive bifocals that are frame-less on the bottom edge. The lens is held in place with a thin plastic cord. I'm not a fashion maven. They aren't Red Hat Lady colors....just a natural look that will last for years. The pair that just died was five years old. Not bad, huh?
Comments (2)
glad you found a pair that you like. those are the kind that are all the rage here because they are so discreet.
Posted by bod | October 5, 2006 6:31 AM
Posted on October 5, 2006 06:31
When I was a kid, I wore "granny glasses" the narrow rectangular type. Then we shifted to those oversized glasses that brushed our eyebrows, an were held together with the plastic string through the top of the lens.
Now, we're at mid-sized glasses that just seem to have different colored frames. I saw twenty pairs that looked a lot alike. The pair I chose were just a bit different, and that must have been what caught my eye.
Posted by buffy | October 5, 2006 5:21 PM
Posted on October 5, 2006 17:21