Do you wear glasses?

laurel helped me pick them out. she called the look "german architect," but no - i'm pure velma.

But do you have orange sweaters?

i have one.

cool, lauren!

i need laurel to help pick glasses out for me too i think
i also need to go to eye doctor

picking out frames = awesome. wearing them, not so much. i keep tripping because it looks like the floor is slanting

i think i have some fun astigmatism going on here ow
MY EYEYEYEYEYEYEYES

Getting glasses for Lauren was so fun! Of course she already had a stack of ingeniously rad frames to choose from, I just told her which ones I liked best. Then *I* tried on a bunch of frames but didn't buy any. u_u

can you get glasses/contacts just for night time? My vision is great in the day but everything gets blurry at night , esp when driving.

A full-time glasses wearer here, since age 10. I also wear contacts sometimes. My right eye is -6.50, and my left is -6.25. Without some kind of corrective lenses, anything farther than six inches away is a total blur. I like wearing my glasses, and it's a good thing I do being as blind as I am.

I wore a broken pair today because my brother accidentally picked up my contact lens case and it was my last pair of lenses. they're 6 years old and extremely oily, bent, and turning green on the nose guards

glasses all the time here.

I'm supposed to, but don't.

We'll have none of that. Get some frames that suit you and you'll be suaver than ever.

i just got new glasses, something like this

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/437146535_2a47207bc1_m.jpg

only the 3rd pair i've had. the first 2 each lasted about 7 years. when i went for the most recent eye exam the doc gave me a little pitch on lasik. which is appealing to some degree, except i really don't mind glasses, and they're such a part of my face at this point it would feel like having plastic surgery.

since 4th grade - they used to call me "The Fly"

We'll have none of that. Get some frames that suit you and you'll be suaver than ever.

-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:40 PM (Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:40 PM) Bookmark Link

I actually have a nice-looking pair and, by my own estimation, look good in them, I just can't stand to wear them. I probably need a new prescription anyway.

Actually, I certainly need new glasses. One of the lenses is scratched.

See, there you go. Trade up.

ILX 2001: Do you wear glasses?
ILX 2007: guys, how do i meet "cougars"?

well I've been through a pair and moved on to yet another pair since posting here in Sept 2004. I wear them full time, have done for a number of years. I quite like them, never felt like I needed to go contacts.

i think mine count as 'emo'

Mine probably would count as emo except that they're prada thus definitively not emo

mine are boots yo

I get through a pair a year it seems. Was going to get a pair in LA but couldn't be fucked with the hassle from the sales assistant so ended up walking out. I'M JUST LOOKING! FUCK OFF! So I'm still having to wear contacts every day which is a pain in the arse.

so has anyone heard of MENDAR, some german eyewear co? i found this pair i LOVE.

is anyone else into those clear frames they make now?

nono MENRAD

Menrad is kind of an awesome name!

i just got some new glasses. they are bright RED.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2016/2131400663_2e6d433c41.jpg?v=0

(i was trying to take a picture of some knitting i had just finished but cat wanted in the picture. for realz. he was yelling)

aaah so fucking cute. your glasses are completely great.

i know isn't MENRAD hilarious? i thought it was some cheap thing like MEN are RAD but it's some cool German company.

is that some kind of goliath cat, or does it just have really bushy fur?

i wore my glasses out for the first time in months, driving at night, bad move. not used to not having peripheral vision and my prescription is old so i was getting a lot of 'starbursting' (i think they call it) with the street lights . i was paranoid that they were crooked too. glasses...ahhhh fooey!

i think i may need to get an eye test of some kind. im fine in the day but at night when im driving everything is blurry.

tell me this: are optometrists as dodgy as some dentists and mechanic where if there isnt a problem theyll probably make one up? can you wear contacts if you only need glasses for certain things, not all the time?

i use daily disposables for going out and sports, but if i'm driving i need to wear glasses. it would probably be different if i had proper contacts, not sure.

the optometrists i've been to seemed pretty straight up?

i really want new frames because my current pair has gotten kinda scratched up (and i've had them for a few years), but when i stopped by the eye clinic i couldn't find a single one i liked as much.

can you wear contacts if you only need glasses for certain things, not all the time?

I know you can get weighted contacts for the "reading glasses" correction part of bifocals, but otherwise contacts are always there in front of your normal lenses so always correcting. If things are blurry at night though, your day distance vision probably needs correcting too but you aren't noticing it. Night blurriness is how I know when my prescription needs updating. Optometrists are more likely to sell you on designer frames/lens coatings/etc and a few specialized tests (field of vision comes to mind, but I have to get that every few years because my mom has glaucoma), though I had one opthamologist who was big into iridology and homeopathy in an MLM kind of way.

In the opticians I've been to, the optometrist has not been the one shilling the actual glasses and presumably gets paid regardless of how much or little commission the sales staff get for their enthusiastic hyping of price-doubling anti-scratch coatings. I don't really know, but I have THE FEAR of dentists for just that reason, but at least a) an optometrist picked up on a potentially serious but not yet eyesight-affecting problem with my mother's eye and told her what she should do about it, and b) my other half has eye tests every year and gets a clean bill of eyesight every time.

Mind you, having said that, I have just remembered that they do like to write your prescription utterly illegibly or even adjust all their prescriptions so that they can fudge it and sell you the right thing but your prescription is expensively worthless at any other optician, so, fuck it, maybe not.

That's true spacecadet - it's the opticians that sell the frames etc. They are all in the same office where I go, but yeah, 2 different groups of people to pay.

I've got to get contacts for yardwork/gardening. I don't mind getting drenched in sweat, but the being blind because every eyeblink splashes more sweat onto my glasses is a pain in the ass.

i wear glasses

After years of contacts exclusively, then contacts + glasses for reading, then contacts + glasses for reading + glasses for computering, I gave up on contacts all together about 3 years ago. A combination of too much air travel (v. drying) and working outside in the dust and wind (and having to round up the correct pair of glasses if I wanted to actually see anything that was closer than arm's length away). I had lined bifocals for awhile, and moved to progressives a year ago. LOL OLD EYES

i have to wear my glasses while riding my bike, which is fine and sometimes great if like riding through a zone with dust or many flying insects that could otherwise go in eyes, but holy crap how awful is it to ride at night while it's raining! for this alone i wld get contacts. but i feel like that wld be giving in to the fact that my vision isn't super great and that contacts wld make it great all the time!

since 5th grade

i bypassed the hard sell from the optician by bringing in vintage frames for him to work on. that said, i'm not sure how much of a hard sell you can get from an optical shop - as aps said, extras are things like lens coating. not really big money.

contacts are such a pain in the ass that wearing them for just a few hours a day doesn't seem worth it , but then i've never given myself time to really get used to the process.

it's true, they are, it doesn't, I haven't either.

it's curious about Lauren wearing glasses as she used to have apparently the best eyesight of anyone I knew. she had some terribly nifty phrase like 'you can spot them at 40 yards, or 50 if you're me'.

Jonathan Lethem has a story about a crazy encounter in an optician's, called, um ... 'The Glasses'? - in Men & Cartoons, which I think is a really OK collection.

i think i need reading glasses. should i go to an optometrist or just buy some from a pharmacy?

robyn is painfully otm re: the bike/glasses situation.

If you don't need correction, just magnification, buy them from the pharmacy or Target or somesuch Bell.

I lost my glasses and am running out of contacts. This could pose a problem soon! Eek!

amazingly, I have just found lauren's memorable self-description, which is from ... 18 November 2004, a couple of weeks into the 2nd Bush administration, and I trust that she will be more honoured than alarmed to see it reproduced here:

You'd never know to look at him that he spends his weekends heaving muskets about. Not like those renaissance fayre people, who in general can be spotted fifty feet away (by me; from 40 feet for the average person).

my mom has about 50 pairs of drugstore reading glasses because she always misplaces them and buys new ones (oh, mompaws) so i will probably just borrow a pair of hers and see if they work.

do they just ... make things bigger?