Vintage Eyeglasses

[Canadave]

My experience in getting new glasses this year has been a trip. No optometrist in my area carried the vintage frames i wanted. So I ordered via an internet company...

Can you provide a link to that internet company? Thanks.

...Glass lenses are dangerous, heavy, and prone to scratching ...

Actually, I think plastic is more prone to scratching than glass. My father was an optometrist.

David

[Matt Deckard]

I like the glass for the fact that I think it is just cool. I really wouldn't recomend the glass. Logically I should go with the plastic... thin glass close to your eyes is a bad combination.

Though, I will still order the glass for future prescriptions.

[Michaelson]

Actually, I think plastic is more prone to scratching than glass. My father was an optometrist.

David

Not as much anymore as they used to. With the new anti-scratch coatings they offer for plastic lenses, I rarely get scratches now. Regards! Michaelson

[Mycroft]

Very cool Matt. Remind me of one of my favorite movie characters: Rick Schroder from the The Lost Battalion.

[Merlin]

Great glasses!
You look like the guy that played Pvt. Gripweed in "How I Won the War".

Umm. . . wow, I've never heard him referred to that way. The guy who played Gripweed in "How I Won The War" was a musician named John Lennon.

=)

[jamespowers]

Umm. . . wow, I've never heard him referred to that way. The guy who played Gripweed in "How I Won The War" was a musician named John Lennon.=)

Aw, come on! Don't insult Matt like that.

Regards to all,

J

[Canadave]

Umm. . . wow, I've never heard him referred to that way. The guy who played Gripweed in "How I Won The War" was a musician named John Lennon.

=)

John Lennon? Wasn't he in a band with the guy from "Wings"?

David

[swinggal]

I have a few pairs of vintage sunglasses. I think they were the hardest thing aquire over my many years of collecting to complete my outfits. I prefer the 1930s ones actually. My grandmother had a pair of white ones with green lenses that were great....wish she had of kept them.

[Johnnysan]

Matt..nice look all the way around! Thanks for starting this thread. I have wanted to look into vintage frames for some time, but wasn't sure if they could be fitted with prescription lenses. Now I know and a hunting I will go!

[BellyTank]

Some frames can take a grind, others cant-
Generally you'll need a concave surface or groove in the inside edge of the frame for the new lens to grip.

Watch out for that-

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