Posts under ‘Spectacles News’

I Love Wooden Glasses Frames: More From Which To Choose
A new woody specs site has come to my attention (sometime ago I’m afraid to say - before my “specation”).  It’s Shwood. Check it.  But - as opposed to previous sites and makers Spectacles Blog has drawn attention to before - I think this one only does [...]

Do You Know What Spectacle Sizes Mean?
If you saw these numbers inside your spectacles - or someone else’s glasses for that matter, would you know what they meant?  The numbers would be on the spectalces’ frame because they are specific to the frame.
54-20-140 Sometimes there’s a little square between the numbers like this □ but this [...]

Chanel CH 4164 at £250/$350
It’s quite unusual that Spectacles Blog likes those megalithic brand offerings because normally they’re fr the rich and not so young - or if young then showy and too brand conscious.  But these look good - here in black but also available in silver or grey-brown.
I’ve no idea what similar shades [...]

Replica Sunglasses How Do They get Away With It?
I can’t remember how I heard about these people - probably an alert for designer sunglasses. But now that I’ve been to see In Style Sunglasses (dotcom), it seems amazing that they get away with it. The D&G replicas which are shown here are $15.50.
The site seems [...]

Minimalist reading Glasses…
Spectacles Blog received the following recently on a post about spec’s image. “I need to distribute really trendy nonexpensive light minimalist reading glasses, men and womens, square rectangle oval lenses leather temples no more than 4us fob or so. new designers welcome”
I don’t know what to do with the comment. Any ideas? Jane, [...]

Who’s Heard Of Theo Lunnettes?
During my “quiet spell” recently, Spectacles Blog has been bombarded with emails about Theo and a sunglasses brand/designer called Tim Van Steenbergen - or is it vice-versa?
The glasses look good but I have to digest all the emails and see what’s what.  I didn’t know that Antwerp was the centre of such [...]

Select Specs Spectacles Do The Job Very Well Thank You…
Bearing in mind that someone chased me to see these rimless spectacles (how did they know the code?) I thought I’d better show them.  But first apologies for the delay in putting them uphereon Spectacles Blog. There was no delay in the specs arriving but as [...]

Most Designer Spectacles & Sunglasses Leave Spectacles Blog Unimpressed But…

 … I saw these and I thought “now at least they were worth designing”.  Other wise I have to say (though it won’t do me any good) that most designer glasses are unremarkable - they are either something else slightly different or something else slightly different with a [...]

Nothing to say about Spectacles…

…I just wanted to write that down before any one else did.
I’ve searched Google and it’s not there so maybe it’s the first time it’s been written down.  It means very little to me but it would be a good name for a optician baron’s autobiography…  Or a famous rock ‘n’ [...]

Bad Spectacles Jokes:
It started recently when all the papers had Kelly Brook in her knickers for Specsavers:  Every one had the “specs appeal” headline. Was that a phenomena of creativity or lazy journalism with the headline coming from the PR with the pictures and the sub imagining that headline would stand out - against the [...]