The Competitive World Of Spectacles, Glasses, Sunglasses & The Internet
Read this spectacle of English and then read below…
In the frozening winter [sic]*, people that put on glasses what most troubling factor is spectacles often may be blindfolded by a layer of “white mist”, individuals have a look at things unclear. When bicycling put on masks, the breath of very hot air may cause the eyeglasses fog, seriously affecting vision, biking unsafely. Meal time, meals, hot air so that is very uneasy to enjoy.
If it weren’t for the idea that you can make money on the internet by starting sites and selling advertising space or “clicks” to sites that pay you fro traffic (I don’t make enough to pay the hosting!), then there wouldn’t be so many spectacles/sunglasses websites (most of which are nothing more than honeypots for thissearch & click traffic). This stops me (and you) getting decent info without the spam sites. It’s kind of why I gave up Spectacles Blog for a spell last year. There are so many sites for glasses, especially sunglasses which are easier to sell on the web (people are still unsure about prescription glasses on the web) that I dispaired, I’m afraid.
And of course the sites are either being run by people who do not have English as their first language or their UK or US site owners pay the same people to write these sites for them. Quite often the writers are East European or SE Asian. And that’s how you get the wonderful phrases such as the one quoted above. I love the word “frozening”…
* Do people know what this [sic] means anymore? I had to explain it to my son last week. For those in the un-know it means “thus” ; that is something like “yes, you may think this is a mistake but it’s right”. It used to be used by typographers and setters to say “Don’t chnage this, it’s supposed to be wrong”.
PS Does this whole post make me sound like some bookish xenophobe. It’s only supposed to be light-hearted. I’d hate to think that this is anything other than me sourcing a light laugh (or a wry smile) for you…
Catching up a bit on the world of spectacles, glasses and sunglasses, I’ve only really picked up on these - via Australia, which makes sense. And I love them. Straight into the “wonderful spectcles” section!
And some of the actual Ray-Ban glasses can be seen at their site here… but meanwhile one of my favourite pairs of sunglasses for some time are seen below. What I wonder is though is why a lot of the others in this range are black on the outside, keeping the colours inside the temples. It’s a bit like the “crazy” jacket linings… only to be seen once intimate? I think if you’re going to make a statement, you should do it and not half do it. (Why else call the range “Never hide”. There are some great looking specs in this range and the brighter, the better…
According to the makers of these new technology glasses they… “Provide an invisible electronic near focus zone when desired (with) three modes of operation: automatic, manual on, manual off (to) provide wider fields of view compared to a progressive addition lens (which) allow for less distortion than a progressive addition lens. (For) vision correction for all ranges of sight: far, near, and in between (and) allow you to turn near reading power off when desired.”
To find out more about how these electronic age spectacles work visit the empower site
Basically (if I understand right) the Empower spectacles are frames with progressive lenses with three focusing zones but in which two focus zones work at any time, avoiding problems that progressive lens wearers get when the higher and lower parts of the prescriptions mess up the middle. With a touch you can get re-focused and I even read that the glasses can be made to turn on the reading magnification when your head tilts (when reading).
Iris Apfel and her Be-Spectacled Irises Courtesy New York Times
I saw this picture in The New York Times online where you can read the whole article about Iris and her signature spectacles. The article is about Iris who seems a renaissance woman even now in her 90’s in the fickle world of NY fashion and art. To be honest I’m a bit confused by the exact drift of the article but then maybe I read it too fast, simply being taken by her jumbo glasses and the desire to add them on Spectacles Blog…
Spectacles Blog Receives Chinese Eyewear Manufacturers Spam as Comment…
Maybe You Have Seen These Sports Glasses With Another Name
We get these type of things from time to time. It’s how the internet works - for many. Does that make it fair game for ribbing? Judge for yourselves…
“Hello,Mr or Miss,
I’m Cathy Xu from Guangzhou Dacheng Eyewear Manufactory. We are one of the glasses maker in China. We have so many years experience on doing glasses. I learn your information on google.com.We had the same style as u are selling on internet. We are the real factory. We want to get this oppertunity to enter into business with u.Please offer me your e-mail address so that we can sent u the catalogue and then offer u some samples to have a look.
Please give me a chance to know u and do the business with u. Looking forward to hearing from u. Ths and best regards, Cathy Xu
Now given that this was a spam comment, I guess I can reproduce it here as well as the picture from the site selling these, the address of which was in the body of the comment (trying to get a free link). Anyway, I shouldn’t be too critical because these folk want business and that’s what it’s all about these days. Plus I bet these glasses or others from that factory have been in the shops or sold to you/us with someone else’s name on them…
I suppose if I wanted to help them, it would be in the “English” department… They can obviously make specs and glasses.
OK so the voting is in and the lovely Una as seen her in her victory lap, gets the prize. See previous Spectacles Blog post with contestant photos. Thank goodness that this photo is marginally better.
But I have learned that some specs or sunglasses really do need a particular type of face to suit. Luckily we had one. Mind next time we’re going to do this in the daylight - sunlight even…
Does Anyone In The Spectacles ~ Eyewear World Know Evertything About Spectacles & Eyewear… Spectacles Blog Certainly Doesn’t
I’m just catching up on La Font Paris which is another brand Spectacles Blog knows nothing. Are all these spectacles and sunglasses brands new or have they just been invented or just keep quiet or have they just gone into eyewear whereas before they did other things - like fashion which is what fashion houses (brands) were originally and nowt else…
Who can keep up with all these things and all these brands. maybe they’re all owaned by companies that we already know and are secret labels of conveneince or newly positioned brands to take a last little bit of the market they don’t have 90% of already. I was going to go to the next big show in Paris (or was it Milan). I did actually get invited but I haven’t sorted it out yet. Do you think if I went that I’d know more or less afterwards…
There are some interesting spectacles in this film though it plinks along a little slowly… enjoy
These eyewear guys & girls have a great line. I wish I’d been the copywriter for that one…
Instead of the usual post modern “minimalism”, they have gone for “maximalism”. In fact they call it Pure Maximalism. And it’s great with only one caveat ~ that you like that sort of thing. Whenever and wherever they can they add something to make sure they’re over the top, they do and then some.
Designer Carl Zalloni, who gave his name to the company albeit in a chopped hybrid has obviously had a lot of fun. Their collections have men’s, women’s and sunglasses - with only the men’s showing some restraint. they also have hi-tech ranges and a retro collection which are mostly stunning in their heaviness or one-off heartiness. They all make a statement.
I think I’ll have to come back to them and show you some of the others as they are quite exceptional.
10/10 for effort and for achievement - again with that caveat “if you like that sort of thing”…
Come on… make glasses and sunglasses look better than that, please
Boring Sunglasses Display
Travelling to Scotland recently (I have shown you the sunglasses I saw there…) I was amazed at how poor the spectacles - or rather the sunglasses - display was at the airport (so called “duty free”) shop. I compared it to the perfume stands and even to the whisky stand and it failed miserably vs both.
Perfume good
I know at a lot of airports that you’ll get a Sunglasses Hut or similar (though I think they have taken over the world and someone else would be lucky to get in) and these are better, but in this particular store, I thought it was very poor.
About “D” for effort, I’d say. Perhaps it isn’t worth it but I don’t see why when the average sale for sunglasses could be the same or more than whisky or perfume.
Whisky Good
Or maybe they don’t have to do better and the sunglasses sell themselves? But if I were aske dto imporve it I’d have better images, better lighting, a decent mirror and some jazz to the whole thing. Look at how good the Burberry stand looks with the blue light…
When I went to a wedding recently and met some interesting friends of friends, and as we sat outside our Scottish castle weekend retreat, there they were these fashionable people in fashionable sunglasses.
I know that they are not new to the world but I was taken with these clear framed sunglasses partly because of the contrast with the grey glass.
I like them but leaving my notebook at home, I didn’t get to remeber who’s sunglasses were they. (I know who is wearing them but I don’t know who made them.)
