Posts from ‘January, 2010’

Spectacles Blog Gets Comment About Price
I got my fit-over sunglasses as you can see from Reading Glasses Shopper as seen on Spectacles Blog.  I haven’t photographed myself in them yet but I will (watch this space).  They are only $16.95 at said site.
Then David asked if there is somewhere in the UK which sold them [...]

Two Big Names Link Spectacles Fortunes?
It’s a touch unclear what this will entail exactly, but Lady Gaga will be developing “imaging products” for the Polaroid company and will market a line of Gaga name-branded cameras and accessories according to The New York Times [NYP]. Apparently she has signed a long-term contract with Polaroid to do so and not only [...]

More Spectacles’ Image Building… Luxury Desiger Style
You should see the times on line story for full details but it starts off with the adage that spectacles used to be to correct vision but now they’re something else.  And the boss of Cutler & Gross, one of the established houses of glasses, now run by chief [...]

Who Can Tell When & What Fashion Will Be In Glasses?
As usual the tinernet is hot with comments and referrals to the new TV ad from Specsavers - after being positively on fire from the “sperm” ad you’ll only see on-line.
As usual it’s a clever gag leading to the inevitable “Should have gone to…” but my [...]

How Specs Are Gaining All The Time In Style & Image
I read last year (I know I’ve had a lot of time off spectacles for a while and I’m just caching up now) three pieces and two completely different articles that endorse just how specs are on the up & up these days when it comes [...]

Higher Priced: Higher Spec Spectacles From Oakley
I read somewhere recently that the glasses & sunglasses maker Oakley, known as fashionable (in a young man’s world) but not necessarily as a traditional “luxury” good maker is going against the tide (discounting and lowering prices) by adding more expensive products to its stable of products.  Previously they had been the [...]

Gaga About The Glasses…
More pictures of the omnipotent Lady Gaga, this time in her Carrera ”Champion” sunglasses as featuring in her “Bad Romance” video.  She’s definitely earning her place in our “famous four eyes” leader-board (if we had such a thing).  See earier Specs/Gaga story…
I now see that Lady Lady Gaga has signed up with [...]

Keep Your Spectacles On A Chain With Folksy Charm
I was emailed by Felicity about her bead glasses chain… Would I show them on Spectacles Blog?  Delighted to - but I’m going to ask for one as a reward because they look good and you can never have too many glasses chains!Â
The beads are on bead [...]

Affordable Glasses For The Third World Update & Ruminations
Spectacles Blog left a comment on a comment piece by Claudia Deutsch where she wondered why first world folk couldn’t access either the Josh Silver glasses or the Mt Kok/Focus Specs being developed for the third world? There they have no access to eye tests or expensive dispensing.  See the [...]