Posts from ‘June, 2009’

“Cheap Glasses In Focus” Says New Zealand Herald…
… 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 [...]

Tortoiseshell & Green Oakley’s limited Edition
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 [...]

Shades of Michael Jackson…
After the last post showing Michael Jackson in his mirror shades, here’s another good looking pair of shades, on the left.  Both looks (this one on the left and the mirror shades) are so much better than the mask look - with shades, as seen below.

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 [...]

A Bit Off The Beaten Track for Spectacles Blog…
I was going to write some time ago about spectacles cases.  I’d had a lead and a man from a major glasses case manufacturer was going to get back to me but didn’t.  So I never wrote it.  Where are you?
I was going to dsicuss the virtues [...]

More Spectacles Blog A~Z of Sunglass Design
Still in the A’s of Spectacles Blog’s odessey of designer frames and sunglasses; but this is the last.  on to B’s next.  SO finishing the A’s with a cool flourish is Arnette. (Sounds like lunette.)  A quick visit to thier website to confirm they are indeed for th fashionable [...]

…Try These Night Vision Goggles
I was talking to a friend who had some tough business meetings to go to and we were discussing how spectacles can make a statement and give you a head start with your tough (or otherwise) position.  I jokingly said he should wear night vision goggles which would certainly confuse and [...]

Sunglasses & Glasses: All In A Week’s Work For Hayden Panettiere

While everybody else is worried about her having dinner with an un-identified 45 year old man, we’re only interested in her spectacles!  You can read the gossip elsewhere I’m sure.  But it looks like the paparazzi are busy on her coat tails this week.  [...]

(Glasses & Clip On’s Great: Just Me & My Nose Which Let’s It All Down)
I said that I would return to the subject of my new spectacles and my new Polaroid clip-on’s when they arrived. And I’m a man of my word (generally).
Well, the clip on’s arrived by post and (no surprise), I clipped them on [...]

Interesting Study of Glasses In Japan
Is there a difference in myopia and the need for sectacles in the East agianst the samein the West.  But look at the %ages of spectacles wearing - 50% of school children and 70% of university students.  And this film asks the question of whether this is related to the [...]