Spectacles Blog

Spectacles Blog Tip

If you cannot get the optician to give you the measure (and they not want you to have it, enabling you to buy less expensive lenses elsewhere, you can measure them yourself or get a friend to do it.  Or you can measure the centre of a pair of existing glasses.

Know Your Glasses Size...

Having said all that, a lot of people don’t want to buy spec on-line despite the lower cost (usually) because of the fittingservice an optician gives you.  But getting the pupilliary distance right is one of the major stepping stones in getting it right.

Postponing Much More Info On These Glasses

AA Glasses

I said that I’d return on these glasses which were mentioned as being some of those for sale at the Amsterdam Spectacles museum and though I had thought I could look them up on their site which was there then with a variety of interesting glasses and a bit of (their long) history.  But when I went back again, the site had gone keplunk and isn’t available.  So perhaps more news later…

These Glasses Don’t Exist: And They’re Not 3D!

3D Spectacles or 3D Spectacles?

At first I was confused about these glasses - so called 3D spectacles.  [a] What’s the point they don’t look such a big deal and [b] where are the red and blue lenses that characterise 3D specs?

Then it made sense; they are not 3D specs, they’re 3D specs - that is they are made in 3D as a graphic model in cyber-space.  They’re on a site called Turbo Squid which is a treasure trove of 3D models of just about everything.  What you do wit them is a mystery to me. You can see the spectacles & the rest directly.

Now here’s the challenge for these clever people (including Vipin KP who made these glasses):  Make a pair of 3D specs in 3D!

Blur Greyhound In Sunglass Goggles: The Significance!

Retirement Goggles?

Some of us were lucky (extremely lucky) enough yesterday to be in Hyde Park to see the Blur concert and with my new spectacles, I could see them beautifully clear of course!

What got my eye (not literally) was the Blur publicity for the concert whch was the dog in his sunglass goggles.  Wanting to get a copy for Spectacles Blog, I searched and found that the original image was from Flickr where the delighted dog-in-goggles photographer (Danielle Green) had been asked by an agency if they could use the image for the Blur concerts.  The significnce is that the greyhound is retired (and being sensitive to light had to wear sunglasses) and Blur have used greyhounds before on album covers.  So the retired greyhond is Blur - coming out of retirement, for these new gigs.

Any way, I like the picture a lot.  Great stuff Danielle.

Spectacles Blog Goes Investigative…

This is just a warning of where I’m going.  Tomorrow, I’ll tell all.

Welcome to The Brilmuseum Brillenwinkel, Spectacles From 700 Years

Glasses Museum

It says that “Here you can order with us of a hundred years of unworn spectacles fashion”.  Now I for one don’t actually know what that means and although much of their website is translated, I’m not much the wiser at all!  I was surprised to read that “All frames are vintage models and unworn”.  But can it include the ones for under €10?  It says so. They must have bought up thousands of old frames from old dusty warehouses or somewhere.

"Timeless" Rimmed Spectacles For Sale

To make it all more odd still they have the logo on the site as appears here (above) and I could swear that last time I went to this site that the eyes followed me round.  I can’t have been me as such: It must have followed my mouse.  Anyway, it’s worth a visit! (The Spectacles Museum Site) and next time I’m in Amsterdam, I’ll be sure to visit the museum for real.

The horn rimmed glasses, for sale at about €80 are said to be from the famous Anglo American Eyewear company.  Watch this space for more info on them soon.

“Cheap Glasses In Focus” Says New Zealand Herald…

Have Spectacles Offer...Will Travel

… in an article about how the Guernsey based (British?) spectacles retailer has grabbed 12.5% of the market in just 8 or 9 months!  And by the end of the year it aims to be the biggest spectacles retailer in NZ!  Specsavers is the world’s third largest optical group.

The NZ paper did a survey with these spectacles prices - results which really explain the lot.

WHAT THEY CHARGE:

Specsavers
* 2 pairs single vision glasses from $199.
* 2 pairs designer glasses from $389.

OPSM
* Expect to pay $500-plus if glasses are not on sale.
* Average frames cost about $300 to $400 and lenses can cost $150 or more

Tortoiseshell & Green Oakley’s limited Edition

Sunglasses ~ Cool as a Cucumber

Sunglasses are available in just about anything you want these days provided you pay for it of course.  (Why isn’t there the same style and variation in spectacles?).  These “Disobey” limited edition glasses alone are available in five colorways.  You can see them at £112.49 on the fashion sunglasses site.

I’m pleading ignorance abou whetheryou can get these with prescription lenses becaus I don’t think the site is clear on this, though they do blurb about the finest quality optical lenses etc.

More Regular Look in Regular Sunglasses

Shades of Michael Jackson…

Michael Jackson More Than Often Seen In Shades, Sunglasses Or Dark Glasses

Watching the news tonight, amongst the early confusion about whether it was true or not, there were many pictures of Michael Jackson wearing dark glasses.  Lots of different looks at different times of his changeable life - each one quite characteristic looking back at them from today - featured shades and dark glasses.