Frames

Children are now routinely checked by an optomotrist for sight problems from the age of about 12 months (some even earlier if there is a family history of sight problems) In my case, I wore glasses from the age of three and my daughter is 2.5 yrs old and has been wearing glasses for 4 months. On receiving the NHS prescription/voucher, we set off to find our daughter a pair of glasses. Bearing in mind she is a very slight little girl and we could not get frames to fit her in the following Optical outlets: Boots, Optika, SpecSavers, Vision Express, Dolland & H In each establishement the glasses fell off her nose, even ...  Read the complete review

Rimless and supra (half frames with the lens held in by a nylon wire) are going to be the trend in the next year or so. I have two pairs of glasses that I wear. One is a conventional trendy Police frame and the other is a rimless titanium Police frame. The fashion at the moment is for small, shallow square or oval frames. When people come in to the opticians where I work with enourmous frames that are a few years old, it is hard to keep a straight face. We have been selling quite a few rimless and supra frames and on the continent, rimless frames are THE frames to have. Rimless are ideal if you want to wear glasses, but don't want them to be that obvious. ...  Read the complete review