Description
Why Choose a Virtual Eyewear Fitting?
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Convenience at Your Fingertips: Schedule a fitting at a time that suits you, all from the comfort of your own space.
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Expert Guidance, Remotely: That Glasses Guy, known for his keen eye and personalized approach, will guide you through the selection process.
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Tailored to Your Style and Needs: Discuss your eyewear goals, preferences, and lifestyle with us, and we’ll curate a selection that’s uniquely you, and build the perfect eyewear wardrobe incorporating task specific eyewear as needed
How Does It Work?
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Consultation & Curation: We'll have a one-on-one video session where we'll discuss your vision needs, style preferences, and any specific requirements you have. Based on this, we'll carefully select options from our boutique collection that align with your eyewear goals.
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Finalizing Selection: Once we've determined the final frame selection, we can proceed immediately, or ship a try on kit for you to see and experience the selection in person. We'll book another virtual call to go over these once they arrive for a truly guided experience start to finish.
- Measuring for Prescription Lenses: For Best precision in producing your prescription lenses we'll have you take a series of 3 pictures for us to use when designing your new lenses. just three quick pictures wearing the glasses and you can reply directly to this email with them.
- Taken with camera head on at eye level and out at arm's length. Try to maintain the lens on the same plane as the face (paralell to your face). Focus on an object 20' or more away directly above the lens.
- Same parameters as above, but focus directly on the camera lens.
- One photo taken from the side of the face near eye level.
- Final Completion & Delivery: Once you've found your perfect pair, we'll finalize the details and start producing lenses and adjusting frames as needed, then your new eyewear will beshipped directly to you completed and ready to wear with some pre-fit adjustments for a greater wearing experience out of the box!
Find Your Fit
Frame Sizing Isn't What it Seems:
Let me throw a wrench to everything you might think you know about finding the right "size" glasses. While many people think a couple of simple numbers can determine the needed frame size, more often that not, that's just not the case. The numbers I'm referring to are the A or Eye size (Lens width), and the DBL or Bridge size (distance between the two lenses). While these numbers can be helpful guidelines, not all frames with the same numbers will fit the same way. Just like your clothes don't all fit exactly the same even with the same waist measure, neither do all frames.
Why Don't The Numbers Tell Me the Right Size?
This is a great question, and comes down to the wide array of materials used to make the frames! The distance from the edge of the lens to where the temple (arms, bows, whatever you want to call them) go back to the head and thickness of the temples themselves are just a couple of the factors. Add in different bridge designs with the same width and totally different fits and construction, and things get hairy quickly!
So, How Can I Even Figure Out What To Buy?
Pay close attention to the actual construction of the frame. Opticians know these tricks well and our staff is happy to assist if needed, just send us a picture, and what it is you personally want out of your next eyewear function and style wise. For a guideline for yourself though, look at the material thickness from the outer lens to the edge, this can be just one or two millimeters, on up to several or as much as ten or more millimeters in the cases of some specialty designs for high prescriptions! Next pay attention to the thickness of the material in the bridge, and the way it tapers. These subtle cues can give you a great impression of how the frame will fit on you with just a little visualization!
Does a Frame Always Need to Fit Perfectly?
Contrary to the optical worlds opinion, NO. You don't need perfect central alignment, or frames exactly the width of your head. What you do need, are certain lines to flow well with your face, colors that work for your complexion and wardrobe, and knowing whether you want to have a look that is bold and oversized, or small petite and minimal, or any combination of the two. There is a fine line between oversized and TOO BIG, so do dredge into this area with caution. This is where we come in, if you're not sure, let us help!
What if I Like Really Different?
Welcome to the party, you're one of us. We understand trendsetters and fashion forward styles are not something the everyday eye will find pleasing, and we're not going to talk you out of that gorgeous vintage cat eye shape in blazing pink colors, or whatever your heart desires, as long as it really is a good look for you in color tones and style choice! Frames built for the world of high fashion are some of our favorites, and personally our staff rocks some of the wildest things out there! Whether you like the basics, or something as wild as a rimless with dragon shaped lenses, we're not judging!
Full Video showing many of the differences and what "proper" sizing looks like:
