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Photochromic?


I’m getting glasses. Well, I already have glasses, but I only ever wore them to Art History lectures back in 1992, so I could see the slides better. They were huge and made me look like Brains from the Thunderbirds*, so I’ve made do without since then. But it was about time I got a new prescription, as my eyes aint getting any better! My new glasses will be narrow rimless ones with thin, gun metal grey handles. Hopefully they’ll make me look like a Cutting Edge Artist and Intellectual, but instead I’ll probably just look like a dweeb.

I had the option of getting photochromic lenses, but decided against them cos of the extra cost (+$240) as I’m trying to save to go overseas – also cos they don’t work in cars/trains/planes. But I’m wondering if anyone reading this has experience of these lenses and can recommend them? If so, maybe I’ll get them next time I need to buy glasses. Before then I’ll probably get proper sunglasses with prescription lenses.

* One of my all-time favourite Australian TV comedy sketches is the D-Generation‘s Thunderbirds parody. I recently watched the Best of Not Only… But Also…, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s 1960s show and discovered that they’d done pretty much the same sketch 20 years earlier! I think somewhere in the back of my mind I already knew this, but it was still a shock.

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4 comments to Photochromic?

  • scot
    June 1, 2006 at 3:02 pm

    Shannon

    Photochromatic lenses are a fashion disaster. Do not get these. They make the wearer look like some sort of a pervert. I have always had glasses and sunglasses.

  • Shannon
    June 1, 2006 at 4:02 pm

    Thanks Scot. I may be a pervert, but I don’t want to look like one!

  • s0metim3s
    June 1, 2006 at 5:11 pm

    Funny. I have to get glasses too, mostly bc when I squint at people at a certain distance, they think I’m frowning at them … And, I also have a pair of those heavy rimmed specs, bought around a decade ago, that I never wore other than to see films, because well, they have the worst blind spot imaginable. Bumping into poles doesn’t make one feel less blind.

  • Shannon
    June 5, 2006 at 3:00 pm

    I know what you mean about the squint/frown thing. I also sometimes mistake strangers for friends, which can be quite embarrassing. And there’s a weird phenomenon whereby I can’t tell whether ppl at a certain distance are moving towards or away from me.

    I hope that glasses will fix this, but I’m not so sure, cos the same things happen online!