Yesterday, Brian Murrell and I were meeting with a potential ADCO client who happened to be situated right next door to Brian’s optometrist. Since my trademark hornrims got smashed at the St. Paddy’s Day bash, and no one — including me — is satisfied with my backups, he insisted I go in and try on some frames and submit to having photos taken, so I could take them home and see what Mamanem think.
I had a definite preference, and the homefront was in accord. Just thought I’d see what y’all think. By the way, they ordered some more frames that I liked, at least in the book, better than any of these.
My smashed glasses, repaired with tape.
In the end, aesthetics will take a back seat to the critical issue of how they feel on my nose. My old ones, to which I have clung for something going on decades, likewise clung to me with a comfortable insistence that I have found in no other frames over the years. It’s like they were molded onto my face. That’s what I’ll be going for.
That, and being able to see clearly at a distance, up close and in the midrange. Which is probably going to mean the expense of progressive lenses. We’ll see. At least, we hope we will.
Many years ago, even before I had ever met my late, lamented shattered specs, an optometrist told me I was one of those hypercritical people, and as a result was unsatisfied with 20/20 — I had to be corrected to 20/15 or 20/10 before I pronounced it good. I don’t know if I’m still like that, but probably. It makes this process harder than it has to be, which is another reason why I resist getting new ones…
Below are the ones I’ve been wearing the last couple of weeks. They give me headaches. Or something does. Might just be the stuff in the air this time of year…
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Did anyone appreciate the Warhol visual allusion?
Yes, but it should’ve been in pink and green. I like top left best.
On the iPad, the photos just show in a vertical row. I assume you arranged them in a quadrant?
The bottom three seem too wide at the temples, and the top too narrow…..
Try it now. They should be arranged in a block, like the Warhol Marilyn pictures…
Nope
When did you get the gangsta tattoo under your left eye?
I like the old look. It just kind of “works” for you. Looking at the penguin on the lenses of the new glasses all day is going to give you a headache.
I agree with Robert. Go with the top left. They are all good though!
Yup, top left.
Picked out some glasses today. They’re like the ones in the upper-left corner. In fact, they may be the same model; just a slightly different color.