Posts from ‘September, 2009’

A Whole Site for Lorgnette Spectacles…
I don’t want to go on about old spectacles all the time as I’ve just done a post on different styles of old specs but in doing that I found a site for Lorgnettes.  Yes a wholesite just for these old style spectacles - though they do carry a fair amount of [...]

Sarah Jessica Parker Seen as Carrie Bradshaw in New Shades
I’ve been informed by a very clever PR company that the filming for the Sex and the City movie sequel has got underway (clever because wedo want to see her specs) and they tell me it’s a “scoop on Carrie’s latest vice—Jee Vice sunglasses”.  Not such a [...]

Other Spectacles Styles…
After the earliest of spectacles and the understanding of how lenses worked to correct sight, the next problem to solve was the actual physical  construction of spectacle frames or alternatives. How do you hold the lens in front of the eye in the right place?
By Hand… by nose…  by ribbons…
Early methods to hold the lens/es [...]

Choosing Spectacles… Again…
We’ve looked at what to consider when buying glasses, spectacles or sunglasses before many times and we have a whole category in the library on choosing spectacles. Most of the time there are general rules which make some sense but to be honest most of the advice counts for nothing compared to actually [...]

Spectacles Image News
Accoding to The Optician online according to Specsavers (you can always trust to get third hand news at Spectacles Blog!), “spectacles will get you the job”.
We’re always campaigning in favour of spectacles here and now we’re told that “almost 70 per cent of employers consider those wearing glasses as more employable, according to [...]

Specsavers, the UK’s No.1 spectacles retailer has launched a new website, (including it’s try-on-line service*) but despite the technology leap, you always get the safeguard of in-store fitting.   This new website “aims to make the purchasing of eyecare quicker and more straightforward than ever for HR managers”, says Specsavers.
Cleverly, the new site (really a new part of the main [...]

Spectacles History: Any More For Any More?
I’ve had a few more driplets of info from old reading around on the history of spectacles and sunglasses sitting here unpublished for absolutely age and todayI’m getting it out there.  For more info on where history and spectacles collide see Spectacles In History in our reference library. Meanwhile…
Sunglasses,
in [...]

Another Maker* Of Marvellous Wooden Spectacles
I’ve found “eyeshoulda” who all of a sudden (to me) have quite a range of good looking and variously wooden spectacles for sale.  (* I say another because one of my favourite spectacles makers already makes wooden specs and you can see all the previous Spectaces Blog news on him [...]

Propensity to [a] Have Blogs and [b] Wear Spectacles
The attached photo is from yet another Malaysian blog showing the proud blogger in her favourite spectacles.  This is Lim Ke Shin and she is one of many bloogers who I see discusssing her choice of spectacles. I don’t usually use these pics but this time I [...]

And A Whole Website For These Nose Pinching Spectacles
Imagine, a whole website on the subject of Pince Nez spectacles… and why not.  And for those of you not familiar with the name, it translates (almost) literally as “pinch nose”.
If you want to visit the site (Pince Nez Renaissance) in all it’s sepia charm, you can [...]