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Aubrac 31 Aug 2010, 03:31

Alex/Crystal Veil

I live in a coastal town in Kent. We just spent the last two days in Bruges. Many nice eyewear shop there but the only plussies I saw were either German or English tourists.

Soundmanpt 31 Aug 2010, 00:12

About a year and a half ago i met a young lady at a Fredrick's of Hollywood store. Very pretty girl about 21 or so after chatting she told me she was working there part time and her full time job was a flight attendent for a large airline, but flights were down so a second job was needed. She ordered glasses from me that had only a slight rx of -.50 and only wanted them for fashion sake. One night while visiting her in the store a very cute blonde girl came in wearing out dated semi-rimless glasses and the 2 of them acted like school kids, hugging and jumpimg up and down. My friend introduced me to her. As I said she was really very cute, about 5'2" tall,and wearing very skimpy jean shorts. My friend said they both fly together in the same crew. I asked her if she also was a flight attendent, she smiled, but my friend quickly jumped in and said that in fact was the co-pilot, I was stunned. She barely looked old enough to drive a car none the less a big jet. She flies the 737 jets. Anyway my friend told her that I was the one that had got her glasses. The blonde quickly said that she should get a new pair herself. In talking she said she had gotten her pilots license when she was only 16, not for jets of course, she had gone only a few weeks earlier to get her drivers license and passed the vision test without question. She was shocked when she failed the vision test for a flying. She said she had no idea she even needed glasses until then. Sadly, that was almost the last time I ever saw my friend, a few days later I learned she quit because she was getting enough flights that the second job was too much to try and work in. I must say I would love to see them both again.

Alex 30 Aug 2010, 17:27

2Aubrac:

sounds grait!

I'd like to be there:))

where are you from?:D

Crystal Veil 30 Aug 2010, 03:32

@ Aubrac,

statistics about eyesight - my impression is that in the UK and Ireland "plus" glasses are far more common than they are in Holland. Finding myopic models for my photo shoots presented no problem at all, but younger "plussies" are rare over here. I am still looking for a model with Rx around +3. I have lots of great glasses from the UK and Ireland around +3 but no model yet....

Aubrac 28 Aug 2010, 11:10

Sorry to be a bore but I cannot believe just how many plussies, especially young people, I have seen.

Maybe it is a statement thing to wear glasses but they all seem very confident in doing so, and rather than hiding the 'glasses look' seem more to flaunt it.

It is like it is cool to wear glasses, and they like it.

On a more serious note, is there actually a growing need for plus wear due to computer/iphone/etc use or is just a fashion thing. Are there any statistics about eyesight?

Aubrac 28 Aug 2010, 10:45

Was trawling through the beach rock pools this morning and found in on of them a pair of glasses.

Smallish frame and so a womens as style was not a childs.

Lenses quite thick at about 9mm at outer edge and would would guess at -6 with a lot of cylinder.

Wonder how she came to lose them and what happened as I'm sure she couldn't see much without them

JC 28 Aug 2010, 10:33

I don't know about requirements for flight attendants, but for pilots (at least as far as the US goes) the requirement is vision corrected to 20/20 without regard to uncorrected vision or prescription strength. I would be surprised if the rules for flight attendants are more strict.

fred 28 Aug 2010, 00:59

@ minus 5 who luvs gwgs:

I was once on a KLM flight were one of the flight attendants lost a contact and did not have any backup... The highest prescription I saw so far was at a Martinair flight where the flight attendant in a conversation with a passenger sais she had a prescription of -6. I always had the idea that professionals up in the air were supposed to have perfect eye sight...

ehpc 27 Aug 2010, 16:09

Minus 7 feminine plastic large rectangular frames :) COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL :)

Mark 27 Aug 2010, 08:54

Just went to the supermarket to pick up a few things to do some cleaning (been a bit lax lately and my wife wasnt too happy).

n the supermarket was an african mum and son, mum wearing minus, probably nothing over -3 or 4, but the son, no older than about 7 was wearing myodiscs. They'd made the bowls as large as possible in the frame, but still between 25 and 30mm, also had a slight negative front curve, along with a lot of power rings inside the bowls leads me to believe they were upwards of -20, probably closer to -25, which for a boy of that ages is remarkably rare.

SZ6 27 Aug 2010, 08:50

Earlier this month, I saw a drop-dead gorgeous flight attendant on Porter Airlines (Canadian regional puddle jumper serving the Toronto area) with approximately -7 in some sizable feminine-looking plastic rectangular frames.

Maybe the vision requirements for being a flight attendant are more lax than we thought.

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 27 Aug 2010, 01:40

Someyears ago saw a flight attendant on KLM with perhaps minus 8 with nice plano fronts and she was lovely

Puffin 26 Aug 2010, 19:23

Yes, I'm getting some "big glasses" sightings increasingly reminiscient of times long gone. I never dreamt such a thing was possible, thought small glasses were here forever. Then again in the 80's I never imagined they would get so small. Funny thing, fashion.

Melyssa 26 Aug 2010, 15:18

I just returned from the bowling alley -- excuse me, "bowling center" (LOL) -- and there was a group of girls around Bat Mitzvah age there, a dozen lanes away from me. One was wearing those "Joe Holly Buddy Jonas Gene Rayban" glasses like Hilary Duff's, and another girl was actually wearing a very large frame, top-temples, peach colored. Well, considering the odds on seeing large frames on someone under 30 are about as even as my bowling a perfect game, maybe this will be the year. :)

Jennifer 26 Aug 2010, 10:54

Yesterday, observed a girl (around 12 years old) wearing plus glasses. Frames were rectangular, wide sides. Interesting that she kept the glasses low on her nose and tended to look over them most of the time. She occassionally tilted her head up to look through them. She was sitting with her mom. The glasses looked new. At one point, she took them off and licked both lenses with her tongue and used her T-shirt to wipe them clean. That was her way of keeping the lenses clean. Her mother didn't even seem to notice what she had done or care about it.

Puffin 26 Aug 2010, 10:02

Yes, I thought the limit for flight attendants was no more than -3, possibly less. Never seen one wearing myodisks, and I doubt I ever will.

Traveller 26 Aug 2010, 08:51

Have been on a business trip to FL this week with some interesting sightings.

At airport outbound - a Chinese girl wearing double digit minus lenses in a small frame size. Obviously not used to them so probably abandonded Cls for flight. Kept taking on/off and squinting at bridge and temple tips from a couple of inches then puttinhg them back.

Two flight attendants wearing minus Rx. One must have been at least -6 from cut-in both sides. I thought the limit was lower. Both in 20s and seriously pretty.

Two servers in restaurants. Again both well myopic and looking really well. The second must have been close to double digits as she held her pad well close to write and had a tendency to squit hard when looking around. Tall, blond with a lovely figure.

Katy 24 Aug 2010, 12:38

Interesting sightings today........woman with gold rimmed myodiscs, must have been -25, her eyes were tiny through those lenses!!! Then a guy, about 30 with plano fronted glasses, I'd guess -10, lot of power rings, think black frames and THEN another sighting of myodiscs on a middle aged guy, wire frames, maybe -20. Very interesting day!!

gwgs 24 Aug 2010, 07:19

What a lovely sighting guest.

Guest 23 Aug 2010, 18:24

Excellent mother-daughter sighting today at the local Fred Meyer. I was checking out and right across from me was a woman, maybe late 30s or early 40s, with extremely high-minus lenses. Black rectangular wire frame and power rings galore--I'd estimate at least -18, probably into the -20s. The fronts were either plano or only very mildly biconcave (they had very good AR, so it was hard to tell). Unfortunately, she was plain looking and quite heavyset, with the large bulging eyes typical of the very high myope (she was bent down somewhat toward the computer screen in order to read it, and her eyes were visible over the top of the frames; through the lenses, they of course appeared quite tiny and obscured by rings.) Both her pair and her daughter's had a notably smaller eye size than is fashionable these days, no doubt to minimize thickness. Still, mom's lenses looked to be a good 12 mm at the outer edge.)

Her daughter was blond, low to mid-teens, fairly attractive. From the power rings, extent of the edge roll, and cut in she looked to be a solid -12, perhaps a little more. The plano fronts gave off frequent reflections. Her frames were brown plastic, mostly rectangular but with rounded edges.

OnLooker 10 Aug 2010, 04:57

A couple of sightings:

First on board a plane, a lady, 50ish, took her seat on board and first move took out a lense case out of her bag and started removing her cls. She removed the firts one ptu it in the case and broght it up closer to her eyes +/- 10cm to check if it's really there. Same move for the second lense. She then took a pair of metakl framed glasses which seemed to be around -5 or so.

Second sighting was at a shoe store, a wondefully built young lady, 30s, wearing dark tinted glasses estmated at -4 or so. They kept sliding down her nose and she kept adjusting them, she sometimes looked on top of the lenses...that was so hot...Even hotter when she was looking at price tags on the shoes and had to nribg them close to her eyes to see clearly the small print...

Wurm 09 Aug 2010, 18:41

Humorous typo aside, it's a pretty interesting sighting. I wonder if she was sufficiently nearsighted that her depth perception was not quite right without her glasses. Or maybe uncorrected astigmatism was throwing her balance off?

In any case, I always like those enigmatic overheard comments.

nickweymouth 09 Aug 2010, 14:28

ROFLMAO filthy mc

Filthy McNasty 09 Aug 2010, 12:52

Wow. That's one OLD woman.

Gino 09 Aug 2010, 12:45

Great sighting at our local shopping mall today. I went together with my girlfriend to a shoe store, and while she tried on several pairs I noticed another lady (about 350yrs of age I guess) trying on high heel slides and then obviously struggling to walk in them. She then said to the shopgirl who helped her choose the shoes "that will be easier with my glasses on". She stepped out of her slides, reached into her handbag and took out a nice pair of glasses, dark-brown plastic frames. She put them on, stepped into the shoes again and, indeed, she walked much easier in them! The same story when trying on the next pair of slides, with high heels again: no glasses first, struggling, shoes out, glasses on, shoes on, and no issue!

She eventually bought the first pair, and walked out of the shop without glasses (but in flat sandals). Funny!

Martyn 09 Aug 2010, 04:38

To Love coke bottle glasses, your glasses should have no bearing on you as a decent honest caring human being, i felt a little sad you address yourself with this title. I will tell you factually behind your glasses you will have beautiful eyes which is a nice surprise when you take your glasses off if your facing and chatting to friends boy or girl friend. Your welcome to write to me at, Hamishjed@hotmail .com, take good care M

NJ 01 Aug 2010, 11:25

Another sighting I keep forgetting to mention: a blond girl trying out for my daughter's soccer team ('trying out' is a whole season affair) who wears fairly high minus bifocals, I'd guess about -8 or so. Both parents in glasses, her mom around -12 or so but no bifocals yet. At practice the other day, both her mom and her kid sister who's about 8 years old, also in bifocals though with a much lower script. The little one was studying and really using her reading add. Big sister doing OK on the pitch but not great. Mom is watching, but occasionally needing to look at her phone, and every time lifting her glasses and holding it quite close to see the screen. It's just odd that both the young girls are in bifocals, but mom isn't though clearly needs to be!

lovecokebottles 31 Jul 2010, 10:36

i am new to this site .unless i used internet and found this site,i would have considered as the only person with this gifted or sick fascination for worse sight and using coke bottle glasses.

Anyhow, if any one overhere wearing glasses above -15 or -20 plese post a reply to this, so that i will have the golden chance of communicate with such "strong spexy" people through this threads or if possible via emails.

NJ 31 Jul 2010, 10:07

A most amazing sighting last night at my son's jazz camp: two asian sisters, probably 13-15 or so and very pretty, both in high minus glasses. The younger had an Rx in the low teens, but the older girl must have been well into the -20 range. Her eyes were invisible from the front, due to the power rings and minification. She had dark plastic frames in a flattened diamond shape, and though they were obviously high index, there was still a good bit of edge. I can only imagine where her Rx will be in another decade. Stunning!!

Curiously, both parents were in glasses, but with single digit scripts.

Guest 30 Jul 2010, 10:04

I ran into an asian gwg with surprisingly large dark plastic frames, with significant thickness at the edges. Although the ear pieces were almost at a right angle, her glasses kept slipping to the tip of her nose, so she either had to push them up or do tilt back her head in order to see.

I was surprised how she would choose such an impractical frame for someone with a flat nose and heavy lenses.

Could it be that large frames are coming back?

Like lenses 28 Jul 2010, 16:54

My glasses are -5.50 and unless I am very close I can not see them. I always place them in the same place on the nightstand, otherwise I would have to feel around for them.

lentifan 28 Jul 2010, 12:52

What a lucky boy you are, Glenn! A -20 girl-friend; we are deeply envious.

Glenn 28 Jul 2010, 12:45

In response to not being able to see you glasses if they are off. My girlfriend is -20 and cannot find her glasses if they fall off or she misplaced them

Galileo 28 Jul 2010, 10:31

I had a girlfriend who was -8 and another who was -9. Neither of them could find their glasses without glasses if they were even arms length away. They both wore small metal frames which did not help. I also have friend who is older and +5 and she can't see her glasses when she takes them off

 26 Jul 2010, 22:28

hello friends.

I have heard that those who wear glasses with or above min/plus 17 wont actually 'see' their glasses if they havent wore another pair and they have to touch/feel blindly for it.is it true?

Or is it just an exageration.

Disappointed in you 26 Jul 2010, 15:30

dude, you missed an excellent opportunity for her glasses to become "lost" in your pocket. you should have taken her glasses and extended the pleasure through the entire trip as she struggled and squinted to see everywhere you went. After the trip you would have had an excellent souvenir to remember her by... her glasses.

Hell, I would have gotten some sex out of it too. Nothing like a business trip with a little business off the side, I say.

Dan 26 Jul 2010, 15:14

Went on a business trip with a female colleague last week. I was pleasantly surprised when she turned up in glasses at the airport, didn’t know she wore contacts before. We took our seats in the aircraft and when the personal television screens came to life after take-off I also took out my glasses. I have a very slight minus correction but the cylinder correction makes reading and driving at dark easier. If travelling on my own I wouldn’t have used my specs, but I did so now to start a conversation with my colleague on this specific topic.

She was first to comment me on my glasses (never had seen me in them), so I explained her why and how they eased my vision, even though not a real necessity. Then it was my turn to ask the obvious question about the aircraft’s dry air, not a friend of those in contact lenses. Three hours into the flight she moved her seat into the sleeping position and took off her glasses, leaving them unfolded on the large armrests in between our seats. From her breathing I could quickly tell when she had fallen asleep, which is when I took off my specs and tried hers! Best guess for her script is approximately -4.00, with strong cylinder in the right eye (obvious when holding the glasses 20 inches from my face and turning them clockwise and anti-clock wise). The width of her frames fit me pretty well and I kept them on for about 15min (nobody else noticed as all lights were turned off by that time), but started feeling dizzy after a while and put them back where I had taken them!

eox 25 Jul 2010, 14:14

Yesterday I had lunch with a friend I hadn't seen in quite a while. I knew he wore contacts and had seen him once or twice with his glasses on. Myopic, that much I knew, but I wasn't really into glasses and vision at the time, so I had no idea about prescriptions and so on.

Anyway, he shows up wearing half-rimmed rectangular frames, with lenses around -4, I'd say. Even nicer lunch than I expected ;-)

Aubrac 21 Jul 2010, 05:20

At the theatre on Saturday a lady, early forties, put on nice green framed glasses with about +2.50/+3.00 lenses as soon as the performance started. During two intervals she immediately removed them and seemed to have no trouble in reading the programme but obviously needed them more for distance.

In the supermarket car park a forties lady rummaged in her bag and put on a pair of about +5.00 glasses before driving off. I saw her later in the shopping precinct an hour or so later and she was still wearing them.

gwgs 19 Jul 2010, 01:43

A work colleague has told me this morning that she has her eye test on Wednesday.

This is the same colleague who told me about a year and a half ago that she is -9.50, and gave birth four and half months ago. I've been wondering whether her myopia will have increased due to her being pregnant as this does seem to have affected some myopes.

What do you guys think? I think double digits will easily be on the way.

Like lenses 18 Jul 2010, 23:17

My actual prescription is -4.50, but I usually wear - 5.50.

Like lenses 18 Jul 2010, 23:14

Interesting sighting this past evening.

Went to a resturant,and sitting in the booth in front of me,was a woman of about thirty five years old. She was wearing glasses that looked new,not only in frame style,but in their crisp clean look. I estimated the lenses to be minus 12 to 14. They were flat front,and showed considerable power.

She was sitting facing sideways,which gave me a view of her eyes from her left side.She had very prominent eyes typical of a high myope.She seemed to look off into the distance quite often,and when she did this she tilted her head back slightly so as to be looking through the optical center of her lenses. Whenever she did this her eyes were blinking more than normal. It was as though she needed to blink to see clearly in the distance.

I think that perhaps these were new glasses,perhaps with a slight over correction,and this was the only way she could focus on distant objects that were most likely very small due to the minification produced by the strong lenses.

I have had that blinking feeling while having an eye exam,as the optometrist increases the lense power,and have had it when getting used to my new prescription.I usually wear an over correction of minus one

gwgs 15 Jul 2010, 09:02

Anyone in the UK here should tune into Big Brother on Channel 4 which varies in the time it is on, sometimes it's on at 8pm, other days its 9 or 10pm, however, the reason for tuning in is that Josie, a rather attractive blonde girl in her early 20s has been wearing a rather bold pair of black glasses, not too dis-similar to the "NHS glasses" of yesteryear.

I originally thought they were just a prop as she didn't wear them for the first couple of weeks but now she is wearing them for the whole day, every day and if they ever come off (she has had the occassional cry or nap) then they go back on straight away and the longer she is wearing them the more I am convinced there may be a slight plus prescription in them - the cameras haven't stayed on her for long enough, or the right angle to detect any prescription but at some angles there does seem to be some magnification.

 14 Jul 2010, 06:23

charles i think u are th highest myope here

what is your exact prescription?

Pls tell us more about your vision glasser and 'losing glass/going without glasses' experiences.

Charles 13 Jul 2010, 22:52

My reply to the questioner who wondered whether or not I like 'my reduced vision' is an emphatic NO.

Cactus Jack 13 Jul 2010, 16:02

lentifan,

Probably cataract surgery at 70. IOLs and easily correct most myopia by using the appropriate power IOL. The typical crystaline lens is about +15. Recall that myopia is caused by too much plus power of the lens system for the length of the eyeball so installing a lower power IOL than the original crystaline lens means that some or all of the myopia can be corrected. I do not know the full range of powers available in IOLs. Mine are L +13, R +16.5. The +13 corrected my approximate -4.50 to near 20/20 and the +16.5 corrected my approximate -2.75 to -1.50 for monovision that allows me to function without my glasses if I want to.

I suspect that the gentleman might have been so myopic that even with the least powerful IOLs he still had some myopia.

C.

lentifan 13 Jul 2010, 15:49

I sighted the first female myodisc wearer for quite some time today. An elegant lady of around sixty, I'd say, petite and well dressed. They were in a rectangular gold frame and had that fresh shiny look I associate with new glasses. The carrier appeard to be plano and they were quite thick at the edges, with flat fronts. Prescription hard to say - perhaps low 20s.

She seemed to be quite comfortable with them and it quite made my day.

I used occasionally to see an older gent with semi-rimless myodiscs. I'd put him at a sprightly 70 or so. Now he's wearing merely what looks like a medium minus - maybe -8 or so. Is this cataract removal or GOC or implants, I wonder?

oxotest 13 Jul 2010, 15:38

Sightings are one thing, but when I see a nice gwg, what I would really like to do is put the whole world, except me, on 'freeze frame' so I could go right up to the wearer, have a really good look at her, take her glasses off, try them on, and then return them to the face I found them on before walking back to where I was and pressing 'un-freeze'. In the case of idenitified CL wearers, the same exercise might involve looking in her bag to see if she carries a pair of glasses. Does anyone else think like me?

Aubrac 13 Jul 2010, 08:00

Was in the pub the other night (just for a change!) and an attractive late forties lady was sitting opposite with her husband.

She had largish rectangular chrome frames with at least a +5 lens. I was quite fascinated because although they did not magnify her eyes tremendously, any slight movement of her head to one side and her eyes disappeared completely, only the cut-out being visible.

Also she did a fair bit of texting and each time slid her glasses right down to the tip of her nose which presumeably gave a slight size increase and enabled her to read the screen.

 13 Jul 2010, 01:29

charles do u have an attraction of strong glasses.do you like your reduced vision

 13 Jul 2010, 01:29

charles do u have an attraction of strong glasses.do you like your reduced vision

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 12 Jul 2010, 22:44

Once saw a lady very attractive with sunglasses with lenses about half an inch thick fantastic thought I until she took them off I then realised that in fact the lenses were plano and the lens thickness was part of the design

kk 12 Jul 2010, 22:42

charles pls gv me ur mail id.i want to have a conversation with u.or pls mail to me my id is

anjana022@gmail.com

Charles 12 Jul 2010, 22:36

I am a little over -32.00 and would be incapable of counting the fingers of my outstretched hand.

 12 Jul 2010, 22:27

puffin what is your prescription

Puffin 12 Jul 2010, 13:47

short answer to that is "not a lot"

even seeing something is there is difficult beyond say 2-3 feet unless it is large and obvious (ie, not similar colour to background) - as for identifying things, guesswork reigns methinks.

I wouldn't bother trying to read unless you don't have a nose.

 12 Jul 2010, 11:30

can any high myope tell what person of minus 40 sees without glasses

fredgwg 12 Jul 2010, 11:20

@ optix: interesting sighting. But how did she manage to order anything or move around at all? What was the sighting you had before?

Phil 12 Jul 2010, 03:49

I wnet, reluctantly, to our annual village party, expecting the usual smalltalk and boredom. But lo and behold the most attractive woman in the village turned up as a gwg! I must admit to thinking that she was rather pretty bare-eyed. But in specs she was simply incredible. She had rimless frames carrying quite big oblong lenses with a surprisingly high minus, possibly around -5. At one stage her phone rang and to read the incoming text she needed to peer under her specs. She's plainly not used to life as a gwg as she took her specs off on a number of occasions and once or twice even wore thenm in her hair!

Chrisb 11 Jul 2010, 07:51

In London on friday, a rare visit for me these days, I saw two interesting GWGs.

On the tube at Bond St, a french girl, with very large frames in brown plastic torteshell.

Then, later in the day walking back near St Pauls, a blonde girl with proper gold wired aviators.

Chris

optix 11 Jul 2010, 03:18

Yesterdays match, Germany Uruguay, Püblic viewing in a beergarden in Germany...

A Blond about 35ish Lady comes under the roof (quite dark inside)with her prescription sunglasses. (My guess about -7 CR 39)Dark rectangular plastic frames.

She takes them off, puts them on the table, looks at the screen without any squinting and appluads with the German fans...

Me sitting next table and can easyly see the edge thickness of those sunglasses.

Its clear to me that she cant see the ball or is anyhow able to follow the match other then by listening to the others when they shout goal or something.

Had this kind of sighting now second time, different Lady, different Town.

Soundmanpt 10 Jul 2010, 19:34

In the past 2 years I have come across 4 women that did not have any glasses as a back-up for their contacts. But the worst by for was a young lady that was in the -5.50 range and has worn contacts from day one, 12 years ago. When I convinced her that was very risky and she was working in a bar with lots of smoke around she finally gave in and ordered 2 pairs of glasses. When her glasses came in and I went to fit her she had a terrible time adjusting to glasses. She liked how her eyes felt but she didn't like how she had to turn her head to see left or right properly. Once she finally got more used to them she even wore them at work very often.

Fer 10 Jul 2010, 17:01

I have to confess I am one of them, lol. Always been wearing contacts... Until now, sore eyes...

myopeinhere 10 Jul 2010, 16:22

Me!

aviator-oo- 10 Jul 2010, 16:10

I guess we all know of CL wearers who never seem to have problems with their lenses and are never seen wearing glasses. Does anyone here know of CL wearers who have such faith in their lenses that they don't actually own a pair of glasses or, if they do, they never carry them. I knew a CL wearing girl who seemed not to have any glasses because she once said she had lost one of her lenses and was unable to come out as a result (maybe it was just an excuse not to come out!)

Alex 09 Jul 2010, 16:24

Today I saw first time in my life hyperopic asian girl. It was in underground. I was so excited and followed her. She stoped on the platform and took her glasses off for cleaning. OMG!!!

She looks MUCH better WITH her glasses! Behind glasses I found rather flat face, but when she took them on again I found her face quite attractive especially her beautiful big asian eyes8)

Specs4Me 22 Jun 2010, 22:08

Ran into a lady today that I have known for several years, probably early to mid 40s. I think she is Philipino, very cute. She was wearing glasses that must have been -9 to -10, maybe even higher. Seemed to be very high index lenses which I find make it a bit harder to estimate the strength. The were a rectanglular frame but with the ends at temple angled to a point. Very nice looking specs, she looked fantastic. I've seen her with readers before but never in glasses, said she normally wears contacts but got up late today. Told her the glasse looked good on her and that they suited her.

myopeinhere 20 Jun 2010, 11:53

Lovely sighting yesterday

Working away from home so was in a hotel having a meal,saw a lovely plussie with her fella who sat on the next table to me,she was wearing photochromic lenses so couldn't tell the strenggth until she put them down,they gave that lovely thunk heavy noise as she put them on the table,and once they had cleared they were quite high plus,more than +5,she kept them off for quite a while,then started texting,struggled like hell,then put them on,mentioned to her boyfriend that she was getting headaches with these new glasses and wish she coould have worn her contacts!

needless to say i was in raptures!!

I left a bit after that and retired to the bar,few drinks later,and on my way to bed,passed her on her own coming downstairs,told her her glasses were nice,explained i was on the table next door and couldn't help overhear,she gave me a gorgeous smile and a big thankyou,explained she hated the thick lenses and they were off for a holiday and she couldn't fly in her contacts,made my evening

Aubrac 20 Jun 2010, 04:26

On the Uk National Lottery quiz last night one contestant was a stunningly beautiful 26 old blonde girl, Aimee, very much a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, wearing black rectangular frames.

When it was her turn to take a seat, the compere Dale Winton said, I suppose as a secretary you now take your glasses off and shake your hair, which she obligingly did.

She then put her glasses back on and continued with the rest of the show, would reckon she was about +2.00 from the quick view through the lesnses when she took them off.

She was completely unfazed by the episode and obviously very confident as a GWG.

A real beauty!

SZ6 10 Jun 2010, 05:05

James X, if you're still out there... how did things turn out with you and the -20 woman from your dentist's office?

OnLooker 01 Jun 2010, 02:54

ooops wrong thread i am sorry...

OnLooker 01 Jun 2010, 02:53

I have just learnt from a friend, an O-O obsessive himself that he has mixed a small amount of atropine in his grilfriend's saline eye-drops. She quickly had a mydriasis and cycloplegia. She now cannot see up close unless she uses +2 readers. Mydriasis started to diminish on the 2nd day but accommodation is still very difficult. I find this rather extreme in fact, yes i would like my wife to be dependent on glasses but i wouldn't go that far....

Passerby 01 Jun 2010, 02:48

Just testing access

Aubrac 01 Jun 2010, 02:14

Sorry but should be 'long red hair', and 'in the pub last night'

Aubrac 01 Jun 2010, 02:13

In the bookstore was a really lovely young assistant with long red haie and fantastic wide framed Gucci glasses, low minus scrip but with a lot of cylinder correction.

In the pub last year overheard a couples conversation turn to glasses. The lady in her forties, said she had just got glasses, took them out of bag and put them on saying they were +2.50 lenses. Looked around for a bit then and then put them back.

To the other side of me a young couple were looking out of the window and the girl pointed to something while the young man said he couldn't see it. She said why don't you put your glasses on, and he rather sheepishly took out a pair of about -2.50 and kept them on for the evening.

Slit 31 May 2010, 12:09

Today at the shopping plaza of my apartment complex... a young mom, of about mid thirties comes escorting a child of about 5 yrs old...

She was looking slightly over and then through the lenses, which indicates a hyperope going from part time > looking over the lenses for distance, and then now adapting to look through lenses at both near and far.

She looked quite confident and comfortable in them actually!

Another Lurker 30 May 2010, 18:59

Here's one worth mentioning:

There was a young guy (maybe late twenties) with minus 20 or so slab-off myodiscs at Lowe's Home Improvement store in Jefferson City, TN this afternoon. They had a big square brown frame, and looked to be a half-inch thick. I've seen this guy around town, but I never noticed how strong his glasses were because they're tinted quite dark. (He also put on a pair of clip-on sunshades as he was leaving the store, even though it was late evening and getting dark - must be photophobic.) He got into his crappy old car and drove away. I'd never seen anyone with glasses that strong driving before. Kinda scary, really.

I think the guy repairs lawnmowers and appliances and things for a living. Not sure where, though - maybe Morristown, the next city over.

scott 30 May 2010, 11:40

late-teenage boy (possibly early twenties) wearing myodiscks in london on saturday.

Melyssa 22 May 2010, 07:54

On a Match Game episode that originally aired on my 18th birthday and was shown on GSN yesterday, a contestant who did not have glasses on the previous show wore them on top of her head until the commercial break midway through the program, and then the glasses totally disappeared. Her frames were big, brown octagons, and the lenses seemed just about flat. None of the stars of the show mentioned anything about it.

gwgs 21 May 2010, 07:41

I had a nice sighting at Homebase - a UK DIY store - this afternoon. The woman wasn't memorable, but her glasses and the scenario were and I thought typfied someone a lot older than her age extremely well. Maybe she had a thing for retro glasses?

She was probably in her late 30s/ early 40s but what I liked what the large, plastic, transparent frame, with coloured detailing on certain parts which were held in place by a dainty glittery pink glasses chain which she had secured to the front of the temples.

I stood there almost mesmerised, as my builder talked to me, glancing through her plus lenses, getting a good side profile, admiring the thin chain that was holding her glasses, several times I noticed her push the glasses up and we were only in the queue for a minute or two!

I would normally associate this sort of frame with an OAP (someone in their 70s or above), but here was a lady almost half this age wearing a pair of frames that would have been the height of fashion in the 80s and they suited her perfectly!

pete 21 May 2010, 03:20

I was having a little afternoon siesta in my car outside my studio when the voices of a younger man and woman woke me. I looked in my rear view mirror and recognized her as the attractive girl I had seen for years growing up riding her bike through the neighborhood. This time though she was wearing glasses. She must have been a contact lenses wearer all this time for the glasses, medium sized tortoise shell, held strong lenses, the give a way being noticeable white rings.

Of all things she was discussing her vision! As they walked passed she was sharing that ‘without her glasses everything was fuzzy’. They were obviously boyfriend and girlfriend, both tall, dark complexioned and quite attractive. He was pushing her bike while she was affectionately holding onto his arm. They paid no attention to my intent gaze.

Her lenses were indeed strong, - 8, 9 or higher non-high index. This was most obvious when I viewed through her right lens from behind: no landscape or building detail whatsoever, just everything compressed beyond recognition.

They disappeared around the corner. I then noticed them in the distance up on the boulevard riding away.

Clare 19 May 2010, 11:31

Yesterday I overheard a female colleague complaining about contacts, talking about bromine (something for eye infections) and later seen wearing glasses, I'd guess - having seen them before - around -5. Today I presumed her problem had cleared up as I saw her at her desk and sat with her in a meeting for an hour and she was bare-eyed. I was surprised that as she left the office for lunch she'd donned her glasses, then later was bare-eyed at the desk, with glasses to leave the office. It must have been quite taxing for her to sit across a large meeting room table, not being able to see us across it clearly nor making any comment about it?

Astra 19 May 2010, 00:31

I went to a mall yesterday to buy some food. After that, I walked past a row of visitor maps of the mall (the mall has 7 floors, each floor has a separate map)

Right before I walked over there I saw an Asian lady, 20-30 years old i guess. This lady wears a large black plastic frame. She was well-dressed, with dyed brown hair, and her eyes are quite large.

The lady was looking at one of the map. Therefore I pretend I'm looking at the map too. The lady stands quite close to the map, which is somewhat interesting. (and that's why i got curious)

I stand somewhat behind the lady (a bit to her left side, so I can see the map too, and her glasses). I could see the map clearly (with glasses) even standing behind her. Kind of interesting to see her pushes her glasses up her nose by holding her lower part of right frame, but she did it slowly, even holding the glasses for a while, and she opened her eyelid further. Maybe she can't see very well even with the glasses on.

By observing the minification of her lenses from her back-side through her lenses, I guess her glasses has a rx of -3 to -4.x both eyes. Her frame is thick enough to conceal the sides of her lenses.

She looked at the map so long, like for 5 minutes and still there. That I decided to go instead of looking at her.

Aubrac 18 May 2010, 04:02

Was at a supplier exhibition the other week and there was a very pretty blonde young lady on one of the stands.

I had a long conversation about her products while admiring her very nice grey brushed metal frames. Left eye about -2 and right eye about +3, would have liked to talk about her lenses but she had a colleague with her.

Oakley 01 May 2010, 21:35

In my science class (I'm a junior in high school), is this one girl, definitely one of the 5 most attractive girls in school, which is really saying something. A few months ago she got glasses for the first time and recently became a full-time GWG. On Friday, I learned she was going to be moved to my table. Thought I'd share this very exciting news...I'm going to be looking forward to this semester!

gwgs 26 Apr 2010, 01:51

What a sighting David, what did these two lovely sounding ladies look like, age etc?

A very rare sighting to see such a high plussie

David 25 Apr 2010, 23:10

Having an early meal in a pub, and two ladies sat at next table. one mid 30's the other mid 20's both wearing strong looking plus lenses. I cold see the older lady had bifocals the line was quite visable. The were given the menus and the younger one stated, i need my glasses changed, its hard to read this. The other lady, said whats your prescription now and she replied 7+ to which the lady replied, thats only a bit less than mine i am 7.25 but need a reading add for small print. At this stage i was all ears, and the lady took off her bifocals, and said try these and see how the print looks. Which the girl did, and uttered omg, the print jumps out at me, so clear. The older lady said i have a +2.5 add, so if its clear with you, this is what you may need. Shortly after, they changed the subject and talked about other things. But i cannot help wondering, if we have another young bifocal girl in the making.

Charlie 25 Apr 2010, 08:04

An almost-but-not-quite sighting: a very attractive young lady with a moderate minus script, wearing a chain on her glasses, but with the chain tucked almost out of sight behind her ears.

Aubrac 24 Apr 2010, 04:02

Sitting in the pub last night opposite a beautiful Thai lady in her mid thirties. She was wearing round metal framed lenses with pink tinted plus lenses about +2.

She often had her back to me and as I was quite close got a good view through her lenses.

She took them off at one point and put them on the table, looking through the lenses I could see the window frame at quite an angle so think there was a lot of cylinder correction. A friend with her picked her glasses up to read his phone but gave them back saying he couldn’t see with them, probably too much cylinder for him.

Without glasses she peered around and squinted at her own phone but quite soon put them back on again.

Lovely sighting and hope she comes back.

JB 22 Apr 2010, 00:31

Visiting my local takeaway last night had the most incredible encounter. Whilst waiting for my food a lady about 35 - 40 wandered in, tallish, auburn and the most amazing glasses i have ever seen, they were a fairly large metal frame in red and black but it was a sort of double frame, frame within a frame if that makes sense, split temples with each flowing round the front with inner one holding the lenses, my guess about - 4 or 5. We passed the time of day as she was on her own, i complimented her on her glasses and also noted no rings on her fingers. Apparently just moved to the area, hope to bump into her again....

Puffin 20 Apr 2010, 14:19

Now that is interesting, because I remember seeing a very similar incident whilst I was at school. Someone did "guess who" to a GWG - much less myopia than the case below - she screeched "my glasses" and said (bizarrely) my name. Obviously she didn't realise that a OO like me would never stand behind a GWG - nothing to see.

tinyeyes 20 Apr 2010, 07:01

That's an amazing sighting! Any idea what this RX was?

guest 19 Apr 2010, 23:09

Nice sighting mattp. Thank you for sharing. You must return to that bakery again.

mattp 19 Apr 2010, 09:59

Interesting sighting this morning. While I was eating breakfast at a small (3 tables) bakery, a young family came in. Dad was nice-looking--thin, fair hair, blue eyes, with about the thickest myopic glasses I've ever seen. The frames were small, oval-shaped, silver metal (minimizing edge-thickness of the lenses); the lenses were flat-fronted, polished edges, and at least half-an inch thick. The overall effect was striking--the frames/lenses were clean, new and sparkled like jewels.

What was doubly interesting was that Dad and baby sat down at the table next to me while Mom and 4-5 year old daughter went to get food. When they returned, daughter came up behind Dad, put her hands over his eyes/glasses, and asked "guess who?" Both Mom and Dad said--nicely--"You've been told not to touch Daddy's glasses." Dad took them off and asked Mom to clean them, complaining he couldn't see well enough to do it himself. Daughter responded--"I like Daddy better without glasses." Both Mom and Dad then launched into an explanation of how Dad couldn't see without them, had to wear them, never took them off, and so forth. I couldn't help but wonder what Mom's thoughts were--would she like her husband bare-eyed as well?

OnLooker 19 Apr 2010, 01:00

Quite a substantial one this week-end in a restaurant.

We were two men and two ladies. In the first place i need +1.5 glasses to see upclose, my wife (36) is a +1 hyperope who still has a lot of accomodation but she does get tired and tends to wear her glasses more and more for reading. The other lady (39) said she was a +0.5 presbyopic and the man around 50s was obviously presbiobic aruond +2 or even more.

The lights went all of a sudden dim, the older man complained straight away that he couldn't read the menu card as he didn't even have his glasses with him. The lady took out her glasses aying she couldn't make it any more. I was struggling too, my wife kept on reading the menu straining for a few minutes then she said "i can't make it any more i cannot read any further..." squinting her eyes at the card. The first time she admits that in public...

Wei 13 Apr 2010, 00:29

I was sighting for mysodisc non blend i think is very nice lens for glasses. Very rare sighting on have

MisterMild 12 Apr 2010, 19:58

Ditto to Optix, I was there recently for 8 days and hardly stopped noticing GWGs at every turn, especially as our group spent time amongst large crowds. This http://public.fotki.com/mistermild/taiwan-various/taiwan.html is just a random group in downtown Taipei.

optix 12 Apr 2010, 01:57

Multi Mega Sighting!

4 Days stopover in Taipei.

About 30% of adult Taiwanese women wear Glasses.

Of them:

under -3 about 10%

-3 to -6 about 40%

-6 to -10 about 45%

more then -10 about 5%

Plussies: Far less then 1%

Of the non glasses wearers at least 50% show clear signs of Contact lens use.(Easy to spot in crowded subways)

For men, its quite similar...

All guessed by optix.

If you ever use China Airlines dont miss to have a stop in Taipei, get a full day subway ticket and enjoy!

gwgs 07 Apr 2010, 07:41

NY - what a viewing, I know who I would have been watching that evening - what a distraction!

All4Eyes 06 Apr 2010, 13:03

SimonC: Once when I got a haircut, I didn't ask for my glasses back before I looked in the mirror and OK'd it...when I did put them back on, I realized she'd really messed up my hair!

NY O^O 06 Apr 2010, 10:05

Amazing sighting last night. At my wife's friends home last night to watch the final four.

Her friend normal uses a mild minus distant prescription, occaisionally.

In the middle of the game she came back wearing the same Prada frame with a much higher prescription. WOW; the cut in was quite noticable. She then mentioned that she had to remove her contact lenses. I asked her why she used the milder glasses. She then went on to explain that her contacts don't fully correct her distance vision, when they did she cannot do close work like texting without reading glasses. Thus her optometrist undercorrects her contacts so she is comfortable with reading in her contacts. Usually she just uses the mild distance correction as needed for TV, theater and driving. But her contacts are -8. somethings and her regular glasses are around -11! I had never seen her wearing her full Rx before. It was amazing. She actually has the same Prada frame for both prescriptions.

My wife who is presbyopic and uses +1.75 readers was quite intrigued. She liked the look of her friends mild distance glasses and the fact that she could function most of the time without wearing them. My wife is now lost without her reading glasses. They are on her head or face all the time. She wants to see her friends optometrist about contacts for her close vision. She previously did not tolerate bifocal contacts or a monovision contact for reading in one eye. She was not given a distance correction to go with the monovision contact by her optometrist. I think she is willing to try again if she has glasses to fully sharpen her distance vision as needed. It will be interesting to see my wife with a minus correction.

SimonC 06 Apr 2010, 05:40

A nice long weekend.

On Thursday afternoon I went for a haircut. The usual woman who does mine was away sadly but there was a very nice young blonde girl, with glasses - who was new to the barbers.

There was nobody waiting so was straight in and explained wha tI wanted. He glasses were very low minus but suited her very nicely. I took my glasses off and after a couple of minutes she asked if she had taken enough off the top. I jokingly laughed saying I couldnt see and she passed my glasses back to me and was very shocked saying 'your joking, serioulsy, wow, I never knew you could be so blind, I thought I was blind'. When I had said yes, hair was fine so far she said 'can I try them' to which i of course said yes but sadly couldnt see how she looked in them. She did make a lot of the usual comments about how strong they are etc. I am only -7 range so she would be amazed at how strong they can be of course. After taking them off she said she got glasses aboout November time for the first time and she was amazed how much she could see with them and had worn them all the time since. Will hopefully get her again next time I get a haircut.

Over the weekend was a lot of shopping to get so lots of brief passing by sightings but nothing standing out until yesterday when I was asked by a friend if I could help him move some stuff to a dump for his 'in-laws to be'. I am happy to help as he's always helpful to me. His fiance is very attractive and nice and we have always got along. She wasnt there but at the house her mother had some pretty strong glasses I would estimate in the early double figures (minus). There was quite a lot to dump and walking around the house I noticed some photos of her sister in glasses - difficult to tell from some of the shots the RX but some cut in. After doing a couple of runs to the dump we had some tea and cake before leaving and in the living room was a photo of the family and the fiance to be must have been about 16 or 17 at the time and had glasses on that looked fairly strong. I said to my friend i didnt know she had glasses and he laughed and the mother said 'that photo is very rare, she always took her glasses off if she could, not that she could see anything'. Am desperate to see her in glasses now!!

And the gym lady - no sightings at all since that first one, maybe only one.

Aubrac 05 Apr 2010, 07:56

Went out DIY shopping (along with the other 80% of the sad UK Population)today to Homebase.

At the checkout was an attractive girl wearing very nice and also very new looking orange and brown semi-rimless with a low minus scrip with quite a lot of cylinder.

My wife was wearing her red and black glasses and the checkout girl smiled and said ‘they’re really nice looking glasses’, would have loved to strike up a conversation about her glasses but a bit difficult with wifey alongside.

MBK 01 Apr 2010, 12:51

Today I saw a woman wearing gigantic, square, black frames, with the temples on the bottom -- a style I haven't seen anyone wearing in over 10 years.

Mr T 29 Mar 2010, 10:09

I hadn't seen my gym GWG at all last week, but just an hour or so today as I was leaving she was coming in. It's very rainy here and she was without an umbrella and wearig her glasses which were all specked with raindrops looking as if they might fog up any minute. I held the door for her as she came in and we exchanged grimaces about the bad weather as she pushed her wet glasses back up her wet nose to look at me with direct eye contact. (green eyes, smaller behind her lenses. She looked so cute and sexy and vulnerable all at once and we were so close for that moment that my heart did a flip flop and I hope she didnt hear me gasp. I wished I could turn around and go back in to workout again. In fact almost did but thought better of it, don't want her to think I'm weird, even if I guess I am, a bit. It's been very hard to concentrate on work since then.

SimonC 26 Mar 2010, 09:25

Just an update but the Gorgeous girl from my Gym sighting has not been spotted since. I will continue to look out for her though.

Gutted!!

 25 Mar 2010, 05:16

Nice sighting Minus 5.I find small oval eyeglasses very alluring,the tinier the better.

 24 Mar 2010, 13:14

OnLooker great sightings, but shouldn't that be in the Nearsightings thread?

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 23 Mar 2010, 23:11

There are just too few high minus girls proud to wear there eyewear but I did spot a lovely 30 something lady with a young child yesterday Thought I spotted that glint of a plano front and yes she was about minus 15 small oval frames in a translucent yellow plastic obviously hi index but the plano surface and the power rings gave it away to this oo Quite why I find high minus girls so lovely I just do not know but I have felt like that since I first became interested in girls in my early teens

Mister Mild 23 Mar 2010, 20:31

(1) Not just a sighting, an exchange with a lovely 30-something GWG in the city centre yesterday. She was walking briskly a few yards/metres ahead of me outside the state parliament/legislature - very smartly dressed, professional type, I imagine she had business with the high-flyers in there - then stepped out to cross the street. I quickened my pace to get a closer look, admiring a well-rounded posterior as well as a rear view of smart anodised metal frames.

On the other side of the street, another woman was struggling with a trolley-load of heavy cartons. My GWG noticed also, and stopped to offer assistance. The woman worker declined her help, recovered her balance and moved off. The GWG, who must have noticed the carton labels, turned right around to face me, gave a me a big cheeky grin as well as a glimpse of a nice medium minus presciption, and remarked that it would have been a crying shame if the cartons had crashed to the pavement: "You'd hate to see that all wine wasted, wouldn't care if it was just paperwork!"

(2)...and a few blocks further on, my feet have just touched the ground again. I notice a pair of young Asian female tourists on the street corner. One is peering into the viewfinder of an SLR camera - and her other eye is half-closed behind a very thick, plano-fronted high-minus script in a butterfly-wing type plastic frame, pressed hard against the eye.

Puffin 23 Mar 2010, 02:36

I'm too lazy to go to a gym, but you could always just go and watch, seems like there's plenty going on.

OnLooker 23 Mar 2010, 02:30

I had what i may call a squinting week end: I was shopping around in three different malls and saw many squinting ladies... The most interesting one was in a fast food where a 25ish lady was squinting hard to read the menu which was decently bold at around 2m. She kept squinting on and off while picking up her food and drinks and also trying to get closer by leaning on the counter... EXCITING!! Another one was walking and squinting hard at the signs trying to locate a shop, a very sexy 35ish lady with a very light white dress.

Mr T 21 Mar 2010, 17:03

She's a big incentive to visit the gym, NJ. I went both days this weekend and yesterday she was there but without glasses. You know, she's gorgeous either way and turns my head with or without them. I'm trying to figure this out about myself, but she's so much more exciting to me when she is wearing glasses(ok I mean also as in not wearing them but needing them since no contacts). I wonder if it's because unlike you Simon I don't know what it's like for her to be without them. Since I have perfect vision I don't know what it feels like to all of a sudden be in a blur. Anyhow we exchanged a few glances while in the weight room (mutual since she could see me) probably more meaningful to me than to her. Why does she wear contacts some days and glasses on others? What makes someone do that? I think this makes me also even more facsinated and turned on by her.

NJS 20 Mar 2010, 03:29

Makes me want to join a gym. However, I'm too lazy.

SimonC 19 Mar 2010, 04:50

Very pleasing sighting to hear about MrT. I am going to go along again tonight but at the later time to see if shes spotted again. I know there is no way she can see anything when she starts exercising, I cant so she cant. I wish she kept them on through the whole workout - its great for us though and makes the gym more interesting.

Mr T 18 Mar 2010, 10:36

Hey Simon, I read your post and man have I been having some similar sightings at my gym. There's this woman who comes in sometimes, I would guess she's in her later 30's, she's got two kids she brings in sometimes and thier ages(pre-teen maybe) are the only reason I would say later 30's cause she looks younger. Her body is great, thin but built in the right places with gorgeous full chest, in shape not over sculpted at all and she's tall but not too tall if you know what I mean. But the best part for a guy like me is sometimes she wears glasses and they look pretty strong with flat or almost flat lenses so I know that when shes doesnt show up in glasses she must be wearing contacts. She leaves her glasses on when she does the treadmill(I'm guessing she couldnt see the numbers if she didnt have them on; they are that strong) and they slide down her nose when she gets sweaty and she looks so sexy. But she takes them off when she sits down at a weight machine, I love to imagine the haze she sees. Once I positioned myself right across from her and it really turned me on to think of her looking right aat me but not seeing me. I think she's single, no wedding band, she's making me want to be single again so bad.

SimonC 18 Mar 2010, 06:16

A sighting.

At the Gym last night there was an absolutely beautiful blonde girl, early twenties who looked extremely fit (in both ways). Came in to the gym wearing glasses which looked fairly strong from where I was but couldnt see too clearly.

She did cycling first and set up the machine and took the glasses off and proceeded for about 20 minutes. The glasses went back on when she finished and walked to the rowing machines, keyed in settings and glasses were back off. When she finished the glasses were on as she walked over to the treadmills, where I was the only one using them. She gave a friendly smile as she walked past. I am not sure what happened, maybe it was me (lol) but she then walked away and went upstairs to the weights.

The gym was fairly quiet but I didnt want to follow as I had just started on the treadmill and it would be fairly obvious. I did my full workout and as I went up the stairs she was coming down, i gave way to let her past, had another smile from her and got a proper look at the glasses which I estimated to be about -9 range.

Never seen her at the gym before but I shall look out for her again. I had gone later than I usually do so I think that might have to happen again.

Jose 16 Mar 2010, 22:12

today in swimming class this guy had lost his glasses, i guess someone had mistakenly took them, or took them on purpose. The owner of the glasses must have been blind as a bat, beacause he was in tears when he had found out his glasses were no longer near his towel. he was saying "how am i suppuse to drive home, whoever has my glassses please im begging return them".This gave me a boner in the pool because he was helpless. But before this, i noticed for some odd reason though, before getting his glasses stolen, he would come out the pool every now and than, and would come to the bench to take a seat and put his glasses on. Does anyone know why he would do such a thing? than he would return back to the pool. Poor guy, i wonder how he got home.

 16 Mar 2010, 11:26

A strange sighting on the train this morning. An attractive 40-something woman, albeit with rather strange hat, got on wearing narrow framed plus lenses. After some fiddling in a handbag and she got out a diary, and another pair of glasses which she switched to. Shortly after she took off the glasses and replaced them with the original pair. Then the presumably stronger pair to use her mobile, and so it continued, switching back and forth throughout the journey. Surely this woman is in desperate need of a pair of bifocals, it was so frequent that it was a distraction - and to some no doubt a fantasy - to watch.

 16 Mar 2010, 11:06

Katie 15 Mar 2010, 15:30

Couple of interesting sightings at work recently. One being a guy of late 20's with very interesting glasses. One lens is plus, the other minus. I'd estimate around +2 and the other -2. They are silver frames and round lenses. Another guy of a similar age with strong plus lenses - at least +5. Also a colleague of mine produced a rimless pair of minus glasses at a meeting the other day to see the powerpoint after first complaining that i'd chosen seats too far away and insisted me move to closer to the front. For rimless they were quite large lenses with Rx of around -1.5. Since then i've noticed how she squints a lot and has now on several occasions said "oh look, there's so and so"....and then on much closer inspection realised it wasn't that person at all. Now she has confirmed why!

Katie

Martin 15 Mar 2010, 14:20

At the station coming off the train, I saw a pretty girl of about 20 walking along the platform and downstairs. As she came level with me on the steps, I realised that she was wearing very strong plus lenses in a brand new modern metal frame with wide sidepieces and relatively small rectangular lenses. As we queued to go through the barrier, I got a good view of her face and the two lenses were significantly different. Her right was a full bulgey plus lense about 12mm thick and bevelled at the top to fit the frame. However, the left was a small lenticular lens which fitted in the depth of the lens with even an amount of lense above and below. The base was plano. The lenticular lense only stood about 5mm proud.

The difference in appearance of the two lenses was quite noticeable!

Presumably the right was at the maximum for a single lens and the left needed to be stronger, but why go to a small lentic, and why not do both as lentics?

The good news was that she appeared to see well with the glasses as she had no issues with the stairs, the barrier or direction finding and moved briskly about with the usual rapid head movements.

Anon 09 Mar 2010, 15:27

O M G JENNIFER! Please tell me your girlfriend is single or looking to play around! My jaw would have dropped open as I find that behavior simply incredibly erotic.

Aubrac 09 Mar 2010, 13:48

Was on a course last week and one of the admin staff sat next to me for a while.

Her glasses had thin lenses but on looking through them from the side, horizontal venetian blinds appeared vertical/ Maybe it was a high cylinder correction that had this effect.

Saw some nice glasses on ebay and so bought them for my wife. The person selling them said her eyes had corrected themselves and she no longer needed them for full time wear.

I asked her what had happened and she said after the birth of her son she had a lot of eyestrain, was prescribed glasses and told to wear them all the time. They are about R +0.75 L +0.25 with small cylinder in both. Apparently some months later she could not see well and went for a re-test, and was told she no longer needed them. She did say however that she still had one pair she used for reading and computer.

Don't know her age but think in afew years she may be back to FT wear.

 23 Feb 2010, 08:28

I saw a sweet looking high myopic girl on the ferry a few days ago.She was wearing a demure stretch jersey tunic which emphasised her slim boyish figure.Her eyeglasses were elongated oval clear plastic with a pink tinge and quite a thick edge;probably because of the high prescription.She was sitting in the sun and there was a nice ripple of power in her lenses which also projected out of the frames at the sides,a delightfully nerdy look.

 23 Feb 2010, 07:57

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Jennifer 22 Feb 2010, 09:01

I used to work with a woman who wore about -4 glasses. She always walked around in a blur. I would pass her in the office and she wouldn't recognize me until I called out and said hello to her. When I was in her office, she used her minus glasses like readers. If I sat across from her she would converse with me bare eyed. Her glasses sat on her desk. The minute I handed her a spreadsheet to look at, she immediately put her glasses on. When she worked on her computer, she was in glasses, but quickly took them off when I walked into the room. She always put her glasses on to dial a phone number. Probably the strangest thing was how she wore her glasses low on her nose, similar to someone who wore plus glasses and only needed them for close up work.

Why she did this? My conculsion was that all over 40 women were beginning to wear readers and she wanted to fit in. At meetings all these over 40 women would show up with their pads of paper, pens, and their glasses case. When the meeting began, they put their glasses on.

I thought this was interesting to watch.

Aubrac 21 Feb 2010, 01:05

Clare

If he wears a higher minus, e.g. -4/-5, he might well need them to read the small print, but doesn't mind going around in a blur the rest of the time.

A teenage temp. in our office used to wear her around -2 glasses only in the office although I think she had a fair amount of atstigmatism that made reading difficult, could also be the same with the man on the train.

The girl I mentioned did really need her glasses as in the cafe for lunch one day, she couldn't read the pretty big lettering on the specials board.

Clare 20 Feb 2010, 23:10

... in case he should probably wear them on his bike!!

lazysiow 20 Feb 2010, 09:42

Well Clare my prescription hovered around +.5 and +.75 for a few years but now I'm wearing -.5 a lot for distance and Im finding I can read better with them too and dont even wear my old prescription anymore. When I get indoors I just take them off, but I notice I can read fine now but when I look up things are blurred but with the - , its a lot more relaxing and there isnt a blur when I look up.

I would imagine at higher rx's, the guy needs them just to see the page

Clare 20 Feb 2010, 09:21

An attractive guy caught my eye yesterday. He got on the train at the stop after mine, I noticed him as he got on. I looked over at him some time after we'd left the station to find him wearing a pair of minus glasses, reading glasses? Why is it that someone would wear minus for reading then take them off - as he did to leave the train (taking his portable bike)?

It reminds me of a friend who said he had to get glasses a couple of years ago yet has never been seen wearing them - not for driving nor reading. What would they be for?

OKC Parks 19 Feb 2010, 22:25

Probably shouldn't be posting then... I have always been a bit shy...

Like Lenses 18 Feb 2010, 21:56

And yhe moon is so tiny as I peer through these chunks of plastic in front of my eyes.

 18 Feb 2010, 20:30

And the moon is green cheese.

OKC Parks 18 Feb 2010, 19:43

There is a lot in a screen-name. Mine is significant because I am homeless and live in an Oklahoma City park. Which brings us to my sighting... I had seen a man in his forties at the park with some small aviators, light myopic prescription. I guess -4, but I cannot guess rx reliably. It still made my day...

OKC Parks 18 Feb 2010, 19:41

There is a lot in a screen-name. Mine is significant because I am homeless and live in an Oklahoma City park. Which brings us to my sighting... I had seen a man in his forties at the park with some small aviators, light myopic prescription. I guess -4, but I cannot guess rx reliably. It still made my day...

 17 Feb 2010, 04:48

I had dinner yesterday evening with an ex-colleague I hadn't seen for about 3 years. She graduated 2 years later than I did, so she must be about 37yrs old now.

When we were handed the menu cards, she had a quick look at them and said "why do they use such small print?". She reached into her handbag and took out a pair of lovely red plastic readers. I could tell she had been using them a lot already because of the scratches on the temples, and the frames had somewhat lost their "stiffness" judging the way her glasses loosely rested on her nose.

She told me she couldn't read a book or newspaper anymore without the help of her glasses. I told her she looked great in them and asked her how many pairs she had. She told me she didn't know exactly, but probably around 10: in her handbag, her car, her office, several places at home such as the kitchen and her bedside table, and also some older pairs that she kept even though not strong enough any more.

mike 15 Feb 2010, 12:38

I live in the North of England i know a lot of G W G that wear lined bifocals also 2 girls that wear lined trifocals one is a plus girl the other minus .

We have a lot of girls from China at our uni many have very strong minus lots into double figures.

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 15 Feb 2010, 11:11

Recently saw a 40 something Afro Caribbean lady with medium myopia wearing lined bifocals I might get the opportunity for a chat if so will let you know

Phil 15 Feb 2010, 04:15

I was served at John Lewis in Kingston-upon-Thames yesterday by a nice 40-something hyperopic gwg wearing smart metal frames. When I got close I spotted that the lenses were lined bifocals: the "near" portion was rectangular, something I hadn't seen before. It is so unusual nowadays to see lined bifocals on anyone other than the very elderly (at least in the UK). I thought she looked very attractive!

JP 07 Feb 2010, 07:09

An odd one this, as it's about riding London's Underground with no trousers on, but the video shows just how many guys with glasses may be seen on the Underground. Enjoy!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/jan/11/no-pants-underground-ride

Aubrac 07 Feb 2010, 02:48

I don't usually believe in posting anything about children but in the pub the other night was was a family with four young girls. One wearing about -2.5/-3 and aged about 10/12 was sitting apart from the rest. She picked up a comic to read and carefully slid her glasses down her nose to read over the top. Her parents called her and she pushed her glasses back up to reply when looking at them, but then went back to looking over the top for reading again.

She seems very young not to have the the accommodative equivalent of +2 to be able to read, and I wonder how unusual this is, as she will obviously need bifocals soon.

Last night was at an amateur dramatic musical. Audience of about 600 and nearly every other girl/women was wearing glasses. I am sure also a few more pairs of glasses came out of purses when the lights went down, and I have never seen so many GWGS in one place.

Gino 24 Jan 2010, 09:12

As promised, here are the pics of the glasses I bought for Monica. She already let me know she likes them a lot and is eager to try them on8

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46867093@N05/sets/72157623150081275/

Gino 24 Jan 2010, 08:47

Am on a business trip to Singapore, many nice gwgs here!

Today I bought 2 frames + lenses for a fiend who is R-2.50 L -3.5à, and believe it or not, I paid 48 USD for both together and they were ready in & hour! No prescription needed, just showed an sms with her prescription getails (Rx and PD) to the guy in te shop. Will post pics of the glasses shortly!

Katie 16 Jan 2010, 01:32

Thanks for your comments.....I'm going to continue this thread under Vision in case anyone complains we are cluttering up the sightings board!

Galileo 15 Jan 2010, 20:41

Hi Katie, I think your friend has to be assertive with the opticians as well.

I'm a lot older and have challenged opticians about their decisions, which has usually resulted in the optician agreeing that it is their opinion rather than an absolute fact.

I have friends in the UK with Rx as low as -1.25 who have contacts. She should be able to find someone who will deal with her request.

I worked with a big optical chain for a short while and realised that for cost reasons they don't like to make all Rx options available in all their stores. A bigger outlet might offer more choice than a smaller outlet of the same chain.

Dieter 15 Jan 2010, 16:05

Katie,

Most docs here in the US would simply bump the sphere by half the cyl to accomodate for a simple -.50 cyl for astimatism. That would give your sister a script of OD -1.25, OS -1.00. I would search for a doc that would do that or ask one for a script for cosmetic contact lenses. At least then you could order your own script online after getting the Brand, BC, and Diameter.

Katie 15 Jan 2010, 15:44

Dan/Marc

Her Rx is OD: -1, -0.5 x 100 OS: -0.75, -0.5 x 80. She is 20. I understand about toric contacts, having got them myself and realise that she would just be given contacts with sph correction. That is not the issue, it seems to be that her sph Rx is not considered strong enough to warrant being dispensed contact lenses. We are in the UK by the way and suspect that may have something to do with it as it is not the first time i've heard of people not being 'allowed' contacts until they are functionally blind without correction. Nevertheless, why is it that contact lenses for every combination from +/- 0.25 onwards are made, if no one is willing to dispense them! You are right, she may prefer glasses in the end, but she keeps saying to me things like "tonight I wished I had contacts because I was out and didn't recognise my friend waving at me across the restaurant" etc. Situtations like that, when she desires clear vision but not wearing glasses on a night out, I would have thought was a perfectly reasonable justification. We will get another opinion and perhaps try the trick of "well if you won't give them, someone else will"!

Katie

Mark 15 Jan 2010, 09:16

Katie -- I don't understand this eye doctor's opinion. I see no reason that "not full time" is a valid reason to refuse to dispense contacts, and I see no reason that "you have astigmatism" is a valid reason either. First off, unless the astigmatism is pretty substantial, it isn't necessarily a problem, and they do make toric contacts that correct for astigmatism. She might like them and she might prefer glasses, but I don't see why the eye doctor can be sure of that ahead of time.

Do you know how much astigmatism she has?

I'm with Dan - another doctor's opinion seems like it might be warranted.

Dan 14 Jan 2010, 16:01

Katie,

Hmm...that is a bit strange. You don't happen to know her exact prescription do you? I wonder if maybe it has something to do with the angle of astigmatism. Mine is 90 which I've heard is "better" than an oblique angle such as 74.

I hadn't worn my glasses full time until this past summer when my vision got worse to its current prescription. I guess I wouldn't have to wear full time if I didn't want to even with my current prescription but I really enjoy the clarity I get.

Has your sister had glasses for a long time? I wonder if maybe another eye doctor would have a different opinion? In any case it certainly is interesting.

Katie 14 Jan 2010, 15:54

Dan,

I was curious because of my sister who has an almost identical Rx to yours and is a similar age. The doc won't give her contacts as she is not a full time glasses wearer yet and also said that because of the astigmatism that couldn't be corrected for in contacts, she'd be much more comfortable sticking with the glasses. It's a bit of a shame as she'd appreciate contacts for things like nights out.

K

Katie 14 Jan 2010, 15:51

Well after a less than sucessful couple of dates with my -8 man tonight I went on a date with a new guy I met in the gym. We agreed to meet for dinner and when I arrived he was already there. And would you believe it, he was wearing a great pair of rimless specs, thin brown arms and temples, around -4 I would say, really suited him. A lovely surprise (he must've been wearing contacts in the gym when I met him). We spent 4 effortless hours chatting away, but I didn't have the courage to ask him about glasses (and I was wearing contacts myself, he doesn't yet know I wear glasses and probably have a similar Rx to him). We are meeting again though!

K

Aubrac 12 Jan 2010, 11:43

r.o

Ho ho ho and a bottle of rum - haven't found her wooden leg yet, and maybe that squark from behind the wardrobe is a parrot!

r.o. 12 Jan 2010, 09:24

She's probably playing pirate, with the neighbor, while you're out looking for glasses.

Aubrac 12 Jan 2010, 01:11

Not actually a sighting but was searching for some dental sticks and looked in my wifes dressing gown pockets.

To my suprise she had an eyepatch in it. Wonder when she has been wearing it and how to bring the subject up. I can only think she may be experiencing some double vision and the patch helps overcome it.

Dan 10 Jan 2010, 20:49

Saw a nice looking 20 year old girl today, brown hair. Her glasses were brown...sorta rectangular. Right eye was myopic, probably about -2 and left eye was a plus prescription. I'm not good at figuring out plus prescriptions but it was probably on the order of +1.5.

Never seen anyone before with one myopic eye and one hyperopic. Must be quite interesting without the glasses.

OnLooker 09 Jan 2010, 04:00

Ooops sorry wrong thread!! I'm posting it in the right one!

OnLooker 09 Jan 2010, 03:45

I have a question: My wife being a+1 hyperope with -0.25 astygmatism recently tried on -0.75 glasses belonging to her brother and had this comment: They make everything crispier, isee things smaller but so crispy. Does this mean anything at all?

Julian 09 Jan 2010, 02:49

Cactus: I have seen the 'not-quite-upside-down-half-moon' glasses you describe; only once I think, worn by a doctor in his consulting room. I immediately knew what they were - and, Phil, they didn't look particularly bizarre.

Interesting (to me anyway) that this thread echoes one on 'Julian's jottings' a few weeks ago.

VFL 08 Jan 2010, 20:09

Thanks, Cactus. I really appreciate all of your insightful answers.

Cactus Jack 08 Jan 2010, 08:34

VFL,

Sorry, I missed your question. Astigmatism affects vision at all distances, but it is particularly a nuisance with small print or text. It is to some extent a matter of personal tolerance, but I would think that any need for cylinder correction over 0.50 would make extensive reading without correction less than pleasurable, unless the text is unusually large.

In the case of your friend with high myopia and cylinder he likely needed to hold what he was reading very close so that the text would appear large and be in as good focus as possible. He likely had to close one eye because he could not converge enough to avoid seeing double with text that close.

C.

John S 08 Jan 2010, 08:34

VFL,

I have a friend of mine that is 66, I am not sure what is sphere correction is, maybe -2.00? He has about -1.50 to -2.00 cylinder. He refuses to get bifocals or reading glasses, he says I can see fine up close if I take my glasses off. I don't get it.

VFL 08 Jan 2010, 08:01

Cactus Jack, could you please answer my question about reading and astigmatism? I really want to know.

Cactus Jack 08 Jan 2010, 07:54

Phil,

They are not half-moon upside down glasses,

The ones I have seen are either Rimless that have had the lower 1/3 cut off or the Semi-rimless type where monofilament line is used to retain the lens. In the case of the latter type, the lower 1/3 of the lens is cut off and the remaining lens is supported and retained by the monofilament line. I would think that almost any optician could provide a suitable frame and cut the bottom 1/3 of the lens off. In effect it is a way to make low-cost executive "bifocals" out of a low minus single vision lens. They do look a little unusual, but is is a way to avoid the dreaded actual bifocals which make some people look "old".

Frankly, I put them in the same category as wearing a cheap hair piece, hoping that no one will notice that you are loosing your hair.

C,

Phil 08 Jan 2010, 06:43

Cactus Jack, I have never seen the sort of glasses you describe. But I am pretty near the point where they would serve my purposes perfectly. I am now -3.25 (and decreasing) and have a 2.5 add. I think that adds tend to level out at around 3 so I should soon be fine with no correction for close work. Do you have any links to these upsidedown halfmoon specs? I'm not sure that I can cope with them if they look too bizarre!

Cactus Jack 08 Jan 2010, 03:22

Low myopes, less than -4 with very low or no astigmatism, have a distinct advantage when it come s to reading without glasses. Remember, glasses or contacts neutralize or cancel out refractive errors in the eye. Therefore, a person who requires -2.50 correction, has in effect built in +2.50 reading glasses which would naturally focus at 40 cm or 16 inches, the "ideal" reading distance. Those who need more than -2.50 would need to read a bit closer and those with less may be able to accommodate the small additional plus required to focus at reading distance when they remove their glasses. If there is a difference between the two eyes, the brain will typically select the clearer image from one eye or the other.

Occasionally, you may see a presbyopic myope with half-glasses except, rather that having the lower half only , they will have the upper half only for distance.

The only downside for a myope not wearing glasses to read is that it may lead to early de-conditioning of the ciliary muscles and an early requirement for bifocals or trifocals. This is less likely in very low myopes because they must still supply some accommodation to read at typical reading distances.

C.

Dan 07 Jan 2010, 17:30

Roxy,

I agree with you on that. I definitely notice more comfort with them off when doing near work.

Roxy 07 Jan 2010, 17:08

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VFL 07 Jan 2010, 16:41

At what point does astigmatism affect this? Say at what level of cylinder correction would a myope not be able to remove their glasses to read?

I was with a guy once who was very myopic and had high astigmatism. In order to read anything sans correction he had to close one eye and practically hold the paper to his nose.

Dan 07 Jan 2010, 16:02

Katie,

Since my astigmatism is only -.50, I use regular contacts

OD -1.00

OS -0.75

They work just as well as my glasses. I know that once your astigmatism gets higher though you can no longer compensate with increasing the sphere and end up having to use torics.

What's your prescription?

Katie 07 Jan 2010, 15:14

Dan

Just curious what kind of contacts you have for your astigmatism correction? Can you see as well with them as you do with glasses?

K

Dan 07 Jan 2010, 15:05

Roxy,

I'm 20 and in college and have a weak minus prescription

OD -1.00 -.50 x 90

OS -.75 -.50 x 90

and I usually take my glasses off for extended periods of near work. I can see fine with them on but my eyes are more comfortable without them. I wear contacts most of the time however so I can't always take them off for near work but if I know I'm going to be studying a lot I won't put my contacts in that day.

As for readers, I only know one friend who uses them over her contacts for extended periods of near work...her minus Rx is about -4.

I would suspect kids in middle school and elementary don't have any issues with accommodating for close up work. However, once people get to near 20 years old accommodation becomes less...hence myopes taking off their glasses for near work.

You wonder if many of these people (including myself) could benefit from bifocals. Thoughts?

Roxy 07 Jan 2010, 13:58

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OnLooker 07 Jan 2010, 04:36

In a supermarket, a 20is young woman was holding a chips box at something like 5 cm from her eyes to read what was on it. Then she turned to her mom and asked "what does it say here?". She kept doing the same thing for a couple of products. SHe then looked ahead and squinted rapidly. I wonder if it's just myopia or another eye condition, vision impairment!! Her behaviour let me think that it's not just nearsightedness!

Chances to see her again, very slim!! But..who knows!

Dan 05 Jan 2010, 21:10

Have a friend who wears bifocals. She's 22 and has been wearing them since she first got glasses for myopia in high school. I know her distance Rx is -4. Dont know what her add is. She also wears +.5 readers over her contacts for reading.

I also know one other person my age with bifocals. Her's plus prescription though...don't know the exact Rx.

Galileo 05 Jan 2010, 04:27

There is something about all people in tropical countries with high humidity tending to look younger than they are. The humidity is good for preserving the skin tone, so those who stay out of the sun (most locals do, its just us European tourists who want to get darker skin who lay in it) stay younger looking. Whilst those who come from colder, dryer, less humid climes and do lay in the sun wrinke up faster.

Maybe we should say we look older than we are and they look their age?

Slit 05 Jan 2010, 02:15

Just did some check on internet about emergance of presbyopia.

Found on a blog that it can emerge early in the countries close to equator. But there is no scientifically proven evidence.

http://info-kesihatan-anda.blogspot.com/2009/09/pesky-presbyopia.html

Roxy 04 Jan 2010, 19:14

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ehpc 04 Jan 2010, 12:03

Living on a Caribbean island, I can confirm that women of all races here look far younger than their European counterparts at the same age. I frequenly think women are about 25 when in fact they are in their forties. Of course, they think European races look extraordinarily old. I am 55,and have had snow-white hair(what there is of it) since I was about 47.I have on several occasions, rather dispiritingly, been asked for my Senior Citizen card.In fact this happened twice in a Chinese restaurant in Glasgow when I was 53. I think the Caucasian race does look very old to all other races.

Wurm 04 Jan 2010, 11:33

I've noticed a similar and maybe related effect when I've visited retirement and vacation havens. The frame styles appear to have been dialed back 10-15 years.

Perhaps living in a place like Barbados and holding a good-paying, steady job keeps those ladies looking younger than their age.

Slit 04 Jan 2010, 10:30

Hey Phil!

I am jelous of you :p

What is the age you estimate? are they in 30s?

I guess the genetic differences play a role in onset of presbyopia.

Phil 04 Jan 2010, 10:04

I'm just back from a lovely trip to the Caribbean. I noticed that the local black women seemed to wear correction for presbyopia (bifocals, often lined, in the case of myopes) at what seemed to me a comparatively early age. I needed to get immigration papers in Barbados and was confronted by a row of pretty young presbopic immigration officers: I couldn't decide which to choose! Does anyone know whether there are racial differences when it comes to the age of onset of presbyopia?

optix 03 Jan 2010, 09:21

Yes, there are People going around bare-eyed!

There is a Italian lady in my hometown, I see her frequently (its a small town)when the weather is nice in prescription sunglasses (my guess about -6) but I never see her in Glasses when the weather is rainy or overcast.

She regularly takes of her sunglasses when she enters this particular pub and she looks at the TV when there is a Match, pretending to see, and takes party for one of the teams probably guided acoustically.

Tim 02 Jan 2010, 21:41

There must be more people going around bare-eyed than you might think. Yesterday I saw a girl driving into her parking space sporting a nice pair of glasses at least -5. She took them off as soon as she had parked the car and walked off down the street without them, apparently with no problems.

Katie 31 Dec 2009, 17:19

Like Lenses:

Thanks. I had -1 astigmatism from the age of 12 but little myopia. I'm 27 now and i've been steadily gaining for about 10 years. Seems no need to induce, everytime I go for a check I seem to have an small increase, even in the cyl which seems a little weird to me.

VFL: I don't know how to handle it! Never quite been in this situation before! All sorts of scenarios are going around in my head. Yes he's seen pic of me when i was wearing lenses but didn't say much. Don't want to go head long into it in case he's not OO and ends up thinking i'm crazy. I guess I will play it by ear.

HAPPY NEW YEAR BTW

K

Puffin 31 Dec 2009, 13:44

I was in the top floor of the local Marks & Spencers and saw this lovely blonde haired young woman of about 20, sitting on a chair obviously a bit tired out from shopping, wearing lovely chocolate brown plastic frames and quite a serious plus prescription, easily +6. She didn't seem concerned about wearing glasses, just waiting for someone.

Half an hour later, in ASDA, whilst looking at DVD's, another older plussie glanced up at me in surprise (perhaps she had a small visual field?)

obviously a good day for seeing plussies on my travels.

VFL 31 Dec 2009, 10:27

Katie, I love it! What a lucky break. How are you going to handle the glasses thing from here on? Will you wait for him to mention them first? Has he seen you with your glasses off yet? (In person or in a photo?)

Martyn 30 Dec 2009, 20:31

Charlotte have a fab New Year, hope it an even better year than 2009. Hope we can chat one day. Take good care.xx

Like Lenses 30 Dec 2009, 20:29

Katie

Nice Rx.You have a good amount of astigmatism.

I am -3.50 in each eye, but wear an over correction of -4.50 to induce myopia.And of course wear constantly!

Katie 30 Dec 2009, 18:54

Like Lenses

Oops

that should have been OD sph -4.00 not -3.00

K

Katie 30 Dec 2009, 18:51

Like Lenses,

In glasses I am:

OS: -3.5o -1.5 X 65

OD: -3.00 -2.0 X 80

So am full time wearer. Do have toric contacts too but don't find my vision is best with them.

K

Like Lenses 30 Dec 2009, 16:57

Katie

Just am curious,what is your Rx?

Katie 30 Dec 2009, 16:30

VFL

I had my suspicions. I asked him why he sent only pics with him in glasses and he said it was because he wanted to know if I was bothered by the fact he wore them (and probably no others existed) as wearing contacts is a one off for him during the few hours he goes to the gym (and getting the coffee after) per week. Little did he know that I was going to be over the moon! He said he started talking to me because he found me and the fact I was wearing my glasses so attractive and also mentioned that he would never had lasik. I really cannot sleep with excitment, next week can't come round soon enough!

Katie

VFL 30 Dec 2009, 15:28

Katie, I can barely sleep with excitement for you! You really didn't spot contacts swimming around in those baby blues when you met? What a lucky, lucky break!

Godspeed my dear!

Admirer 29 Dec 2009, 16:27

Great stories SZ6 and Puffin!

Katie 29 Dec 2009, 15:54

Like Lenses

Maybe so. we've not been on a date yet but have been emailing and have found out he's definitely more attracted to women in glasses than without. Suspect he's one of us and is OO. Almost can't sleep with excitment. Got to wait another week yet though.

Puffin 29 Dec 2009, 15:14

It's quite a nice thing to see someone who you like a bit, but never really talk to, at work suddenly appearing in glasses.

It happened to me today at work with a young black girl, no great strength in the lenses, black plastic frames with quite wide frames. mmm.

SZ6 28 Dec 2009, 16:49

Male OO visitors to Boston should not miss the Samuel Adams Brewery Tour. The tour itself is nothing special - too short and a disappointingly small selection of beers to taste in the hospitality room - but a delightful GWG works in the gift shop. She's probably mid-20's, slim, brunette, with blue eyes and some quite stylish large red plastic frames housing -15ish lenses. She makes the brewery worth a visit - free beer plus a great GWG makes SZ6 a very happy OO.

Like Lenses 28 Dec 2009, 15:49

Katie

Sound like, love at first SIGHT!!( through thick glasses that is )

Katie 28 Dec 2009, 15:18

I recently met a guy in a coffee place and we got talking. We got on well and decided to swap email addresses. We began emailing and soon decided to swap a few photos of one another. I could not believe my luck when I recieved them. They were all of him (talk, slim, dark hair, blue eyes) wearing an amazing pair of glasses. Dark brown plastic frames, lenses at least -8/-9 as there was a lot of cut in. I asked if he'd been wearing contacts when we met and he said yes, so I just came out and asked him to wear his glasses next time because I liked the way he looked in them. He said no problem because he doesn't really get on with contacts that well anyway. Can't wait!

myopeinhere 20 Dec 2009, 02:34

lol at Aubrac,ah the joys of tesco self service tills!!!

Aubrac 19 Dec 2009, 06:52

Was in Tesco yesterday buying a few things and saw a really lovely check-out girl. Late thirties, beautiful friendly smile and chatting to customers, glossy well styled hair, and a stunning pair of about +3.00 semi-rimless glasses.

Waited behind a couple of other customers while thoroughly enjoying the view, when a pair of moustachiod senior lady assistants bustled up to me. 'Is that all you've got?' said one stabbing a finger at my five or so items. 'We can't have you waiting when other tills are empty', and with that I was frogmarched to a self-service till to complete my purchase.

Oh well, maybe she is permanent and not just a Christmas extra - we'll see next time.

Katie 18 Dec 2009, 11:58

And

Yep he's worn them every night this week but no photos of him wearing specs online for those who cannot view BBC

Katie

And 18 Dec 2009, 11:43

He's wearing them on BBC1 as I type

Katie 18 Dec 2009, 11:16

Marcus, I know, I've been trying to find a pic to post too but have not suceeded. I did however find a reference to him ususally wearing contact lenses.

Katie

Marcus 16 Dec 2009, 15:23

Hey, I tried to see this Adrian Chiles guy but can't seem to find pics anywhere. I tried BBC iplayer but it won't work as I'm not from UK.

Katy 16 Dec 2009, 15:14

Thanks Katie!

Katie 16 Dec 2009, 14:27

Sorry folks, particularly Katy for confusing things!!! I'll go with the ie from now on!

And for the record, am not an Adrian Chiles fan, was just curious about his sudden glasses wearing. And yes, having watched again tonight i'd agree that he's more like a -4.

Clare 16 Dec 2009, 11:51

Not a fan myself but I saw the One Show tonight too and would estimate Adrian Chiles' prescription to be more in the -4 range than the -2.

Phil 16 Dec 2009, 03:35

Gosh, that's a relief Katy. I didn't have you down as an Adrian Chiles fan!

Katy 16 Dec 2009, 03:31

Those posts aren't from me. Whoever the new 'Katy' is, can you please use another name? Otherwise it will get very confusing!

Dieter 15 Dec 2009, 20:22

Clare,

I've had several friends get lasik to trade their progressives and/or myopic lenses for reading glasses. They act so happy about it. I don't get it either.

ehpc 15 Dec 2009, 15:38

Er............................something can only be 'unique' - not 'very unique'.

Clare 15 Dec 2009, 15:04

I'd guess that he's old enough that he'd immediately be into reading glasses? Not much of an escape then ...

Katy 15 Dec 2009, 14:49

Schofe has been lurred into LASIK and showed it on This Mornig:

http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/more/philslasereyesurgery/

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00478/SNN3003PS_478503a.jpg

Can anyone estimate his glasses distance Rx from this? He says that he woke up in the morning and had to fumble for glasses to see the tree outside his window, but as far as I know hardly ever wore glasses on the show. One would assume he wore contacts though he never mentioned that.

He looked so great in specs, its such a shame we won't see him wearing them again!

Dan 15 Dec 2009, 13:50

Saw a girl yesterday with an interesting prescription. Must have been at least -3 in her left eye. Couldn't really tell the right eye prescription very well but it was either only astigmatic or slightly a plus prescription. Definite difference in lens thickness...very unique.

Katy 15 Dec 2009, 11:46

I was just watching the One Show on BBC1. Adrian Chiles was wearing minus glasses, I guess in the -2 to -4 region but it was hard to tell, though there was clearly some cut in. I've never seen him wear glasses on the show before, though I do not watch it every night. Has anyone else seen him in specs? He did look quite uneasy perhaps because he was wearing them. I've seen elsewhere on the web that people think he is terrible with the auto cue, i.e. it is very obvious when he is reading from it. I do wonder if he tries to go beareyed and therefore was trying very hard to read it.

Aubrac 12 Dec 2009, 03:05

Was naughty the other day and wayched some daytime TV, Cash in the Attic on BBC1.

A very nice young Asian couple, she about 25 and bareyed throughout the programme when people search their houses for itens to sell at auction.

However at the auction she was wearing a nice pair of rimless about +1,50 glasses. Interesting that she did not wear them for any close work in the house but wore them for distance.

At 25 possibly contrary to what would have been expected.

Slit 11 Dec 2009, 04:45

re: wigs - i wonder if she is a drama school student or something related to performaing arts.

re: glasses lower on nose, i have seen this few times, esp on young ladies, wearing high minus rx. in goa, india; i saw a nicely groomed young lady doing same to read a guidebook which usually have small prints.

effect of this is to reduce minus power and the image of the text is formed a little further than in the case when glasses are on usual position. so that minification is less and easy to read. :)

Astra 11 Dec 2009, 03:02

Guido, but my point is her act overall seems strange for me. Her lenses was abnormally full of dust.

Astra 11 Dec 2009, 02:59

What's even more striking is that at the last part of journey on the bus, she didn't move up her lenses from the low position when she was looking at the window, apart from a fake attempt holding her glasses directly upward from that position, but not along her nose.

Today I saw her on the bus again. She looked almost the same, but I find out her "long hair" was actually wigs. She removed the wigs when she was on the bus, and showed her masculine-looking very-short haircut. Weird, her look is obviously fine but making such a haircut. Her clothes seems clean, even a bit fragrant. I guess her dusty lenses which is placed abnormally low on her nose is just a hint of her unscrupulous-looking character. She seems don't care of what others think about her at all. I guess wearing wigs is just for concealing that.

Guido 11 Dec 2009, 02:56

Astra: Moving glasses with a minus script down on ones nose effectively reduces the power, making reading easier. This assumes they were single vision lenses.

Astra 11 Dec 2009, 02:41

About a month ago, when I was riding bus back home, I got a seat next to another female, she's in early 20s I guess. She was not wearing glasses at first, and looked at the window for like 3-5 minutes. Then she got some lecture notes to read. At the moment I was looking at the window, so she was on the left from me. she didn't seem noticed I was looking at her lecture notes. She has a large bag on her knee, therefore the lecture notes was held onto her chest level. I have a guess that bag is deliberate, as she read closely, like 10-15 cm. I don't like to work on buses, so I just keep looking at what she was going on. She kept on reading her lecture notes for 10 minutes, then squinted at me swiftly. Afterwards she got her blue-green colored full plastic frame glasses on, not wide arm ones. I find it strange, they are place down on the tip of her nose. Her lenses are full of dust, but this didn't seem bother her from reading her hand-written notes. They are obviously minus lenses, -3 to -4 range I guess. Interesting, I've never seen anyone with non-progressive minus lenses would place glasses down like that.

Aubrac 28 Nov 2009, 06:54

Yes could be what Puffin said about the astigmatism.

I once ordered glasses online for my wife and got the lenses mixed, only found out when the only time she wore them was for reading at home with the lenses reversed.

Puffin 28 Nov 2009, 02:26

It may be that she had astigmatism and the axis had rotated a little, so that the "reversed" angle was better.

and perhaps also in reverse the lens was closer to her eyes, thus offering a bit more correction.

Galileo 27 Nov 2009, 21:08

An unusual sighting. A young woman early 20's with low minus prescription, rectangular frames with wire bottom and red plastic arms and top. She was squinting hard to see what was happening at the other end of a long room, but obviously not seeing as much as she wanted to. Suddenly she took her glasses off, turned them round and held them onto her nose with the arms facing away from her head. She seemed happier with the arrangement and although she was still squinting she held her glasses like that for several minutes before putting them back in the conventional way. She did not seem at all concerned about what people around her might be thinking.

 27 Nov 2009, 04:30

once in on a hot summer day we were at a lake swimming and having a good time. we also had a small boat with us. a friend, his girlfriend and me took the boat and went on the lake. the girlfriend kept her glasses on (around -5 at that time) and i thought it was a bit dangerous because if we fell into the water she could have lost them. as we were out on the lake i wanted to tease her a bit. i took the paddle and to wanted splash some water on her back. in this moment she turned her head say something to me and got all the water into her face. she started to laugh, took her glasses off and started to wipe them dry on my swimming pants. i started to get hard but i think she didnt see it. after that we got back on land and she took her glasses off before we went back on the lake. maybe it was better because this time we also jumped into the water....

gwgs 19 Nov 2009, 02:46

In the last few days I've also seen a lot more women wearing bigger, almost oversized frames WITH their prescriptions (i.e. not just for fashion). Two girls yesterdays were waiting a bus stop (were probably between 19-21 years old). One sported a pair of black heavy framed plastic glasses - similar to the pair Natalie Imbruglia has been seen in - and had a prescription probably of about -3, she had blonde hair and brown eyes and had an athletic build. The other was a brunette who wore large round plastic rimmed glasses with a plus prescription - I can never guess these plussie's details.

Then last week I saw a stunner cross the road in what I thought were just a fashion statement - she was again probably in her early twenties, 5ft 8ish, slim build and blonde - but she turned her head to check for traffic as she went to cross the road I could see the cut in and clearly had a prescription of about -4/-5. I wish I wasn't in a car at that moment as I would tried to pluck up the courage to speak to her! She was hot stuff.

gwgs 19 Nov 2009, 02:39

She is full time in the jungle. I haven't seen her for a moment with them and does seem rather reliant on them - saw her this morning raising her head up to look through them as they were at the bottom of her nose, two minutes later she then pushed them up

Slit 18 Nov 2009, 23:46

re: Sam Fox.

I remember very well reading on web that she has told media that back in school she had trouble reading and wore reading glasses which she later gave up and got contacts.

I have even seen a pic of her pshing away a script to read it in low light. :)

Martyn 18 Nov 2009, 17:44

Hi Charlotte was that you in the chat room, if so, how you doing still working away renovating properties, the last time we spoke you were down at some where in Sussex, or was it Hampshire, i often wonder what happened to you and your sister. I hope you come back into thje chat room nice to meet up with your again. take good care xx

myopeinhere 18 Nov 2009, 16:44

She'll be full time and as much as i hate that programme,I'll be watching out for her

And 18 Nov 2009, 14:50

Is Ms Fox wearing contacts in the jungle or will she be ok with that prescription to go bare-eyed ?

Aubrac 18 Nov 2009, 04:31

Sam Fox

Have seen pictures of her many years ago wearing plus glasses of about +3/+4.

She became well known as a Sun newspaper page 3 girl. There have been a few articles of her as kid, she had some joint problem and wore a calliper for many years until it healed.

Possibly some pics around of her as a youngster wearing glasses and callipers.

Puffin 18 Nov 2009, 02:05

Apparently Sam Fox used to wear glasses at school but gave up or wore contacts as soon as the modelling started.

gwgs 18 Nov 2009, 01:24

Just a quick note to say that on I'm a Celebrity on ITV at 9pm every evening (GMT) Samantha Fox, the former model and actress is on this reality show sporting a pair of wide arm black plastic glasses with plus lenses - she's a full time wearer and apart from appaling accent which rather puts me off her, she doesn't look too bad in them!

OnLooker 16 Nov 2009, 01:10

Oooops sorry i have posted in the wrong thread!! So excited!!

OnLooker 16 Nov 2009, 01:09

I have just bought online and received two pairs of reading glasses, very "glamour" and sexy tfor my wife to wear and play with while preserving her prescription ones designer, expensive...she is all thje time worried to break them so...not very practicla for those moments!! The thing is that she's wearing +1 with -0.25 astygmatism and the readers i have bought are +1.5..just to add some power to the lenses...I hope she'll cope with them and be able to use them for reading other than for other stuff!!

Aubrac 16 Nov 2009, 01:05

Phil

I think it is certainly the case with younger plus wearers. In the supermarket on Sunday was a whole family of plussies ranging from about +2 to +5. The yougest, a girl of about 13, had her glasses on the end of her nose and resoulutely refused to look through them.

However, having said this, there was a fifties lady in the pub wearing about +4/+5, she put them on see something her partner had pointed out but on leaving, put them away in a case. Maybe she could still accommodate enough or just didn't mind the blur.

By the way, my wife seems to have settled into wearing her prism glasses and was wearing them for driving and most of yesterday.

Visitboy 15 Nov 2009, 23:40

At motorway services yesterday I was sold a newspaper by a guy in in his 20s or 30s wearing black metal rimless frames carrying thick lenses with unpolished edges.

The thing that go my attention was that, while his lenses didn't seem especially strong, they were strikingly thick. At first I thought he could be one of us. Allowing for the width of his lenses, they didn't appear significantly thinner at the top centre than they were on the outer edges.

On second thoughts, I concluded that he'd got standard low-index lenses and an old-fashined optometrist who hasn't joined the wave of lens edge polishing.

One way to get your lenses noticed: Don't have the edges polished.

Phil 11 Nov 2009, 07:16

Aubrac,

Do you think it's that young plussies can cope sans specs, unless their rx is pretty significant, until a certain age? I'm not sure whether there is an age at which the symptoms of latent mild hyperopia tend to begin to emerge. But I recall a couple of girls in my class at school getting reading specs with pretty low plus lenses at around 16 or 17. And I have a very vivid recollection of one of my first students when I taught at a university getting some mild plus specs almost as soon as she arrived there. I recall a tutorial in which she repeatedly took her newly-acquired glasses on and off in an attempt to judge whether she could read the pages of Winfield on Tort any more easily with them on. The advantage they gave must have been quite marginal.

Aubrac 11 Nov 2009, 06:59

I think young girls can have very much a take it or leave attitude towards glasses wearing especially plussies.

I took by daughter to the London Bridge Experience (not really worth the money) last half-term. In the queue was a 16 something girl with about +3/+4 glasses with what looked like some prism. Her mum was wearing similar strength glasses but perhaps a tad stronger.

When we got into the atraction which was quite dark, she took her glasses off, put them back on then took them off for the rest of the time. I didn't see her at the finish so don't know if she kept them off or not.

Phil 11 Nov 2009, 06:49

It's all about vanity and embarrassment about glasses-wearing. I know the feeling myself!

For many, being like that continues only for so long as one's rx remains insignificant: see my "sighting" of the "young" presbyopes. Most "normal" people make a decision to go full time (if a myope or astigmatic) or full time for close work (if a hyperope or presbyope) when they need to do that to see clearly. But for some, either out of vanity or because wearing specs has more than usual significance for them, others continue part-time far beyond the point when that is entirely rational behaviour.

SimonC 11 Nov 2009, 06:37

I agree strange. I like to think that the plussie does wear those glasses, with those on and the whole rest of her it would be heaven. I think maybe she was off out as Saturday night and maybe they were borrowed or for fun.

The girl on the bus was odd. I wondered if new and was still getting used to them or if she was one of us and was hoping to get someones attention.

Galileo 11 Nov 2009, 06:37

Simon C's non-sighting reminded me of the most extreme non-sighting I saw. A young mother wandering round a DIY store with a baby in a buggy. She obviously couldn't see anything and I wondered how she could have got there without glasses.

Everything she stopped to look at she held a few centimetres from her nose and on a couple of occasions I saw her literally climb up the shelves to read a label. Her young child had ice cream all over its face and she did not seem to notice this until she leaned right into the buggy, maybe 10 centimentres from the childs face. Then she said something and produced a tissue and started to wipe the ice cream away whilst still leaning right into the buggy. I do wonder how she got to the shop and how she got home afterwards.

gwgs 11 Nov 2009, 05:27

Strange one there Simon, I would've thought she would have worn them after that!

I am guessing one of two things, she a newbie to glasses wearing and was rather self conscious and didn't want to be seen wearing them or maybe she was one of us 0-0 fan's and it was a new purchase which needed a bit of a clean but as they weren't her prescription she couldn't see properly with them on!

SimonC 11 Nov 2009, 02:38

2 Sightings, or probably better described as non-sightings. Similar to Phil's below the first one occured on Saturday evening in my local shop. I had to nip in quickly to get something and there was a young woman in her early 20's, brunnette, with black boots, short skirt and wonderful figure that caught my eye. Went around to get a front view and she was absolutely stunning looking. It was also then I noticed a pair of glasses perched on her head. Getting a closer viewing they were strong plus lenses although I am not good with plus prescriptions. I followed her around the shop and got behind her in the queue - she didnt appear to have any problems getting around, picking up items or sorting in her purse for change when paying but sadly I never got to see the glasses on her.

Yesterday evening catching the bus home which is always busy I saw a seat empty and grabbed it. Rather annoying having sat down I caught a glimpse of a blonde girl with wide armed glasses on and a seat next to her which was taken by the person behind me.What was interesting was the cleaning of her glasses. She took them off just when the bus moved off, got out a cleaning cloth and proceeded to clean them, look at them in the light, put them on, take them off, clean them again. On they went, off they came and then more wiping. This whole process took about 15minutes and I would guestimate the lenses to be in the -4 to 5 range. After the cleaning had appeared to stop the glasses went on top of her head for about 5 minutes and then as we neared the next town they went back on, a look out of the window and then back on the head and this carried on for a further 5 minutes. I got off before her sadly and as the bus moved off I could see she was very pretty but sadly the glasses still off.

gwgs 11 Nov 2009, 02:38

Another sighting yesterday afternoon which I forgot to mention was the cashier in Boots, there was no particularly remarkable about her, I did like her glasses though which were similar to the Zyloware brand that sometimes appears on eBay. They were transparent oval plastic frames with a blue tint in them and a pink tint to the arms. It was a middle aged lady that was wearing them and what I found remarkable was the lenses had full width bifocal lenses, I have only seen these twice before - and pairs are a proud part of my collection!

Both parts of the lenses were for a plus prescription with 1/3 of the frame having a full width add in - she clearly (pardon the pun) had trouble previously seeing the prices or bar codes on the items. A nice sighting.

What was another sighting which was something I have meant to mention for a while is The Graham Norton show, currently on the BBC, once every week (can't remember the day or time but I think it's about 10:30pm GMT). Quite a large amount of the audience regularly seem to be glasses wearers and they have been some real honies there before. I watched an episode this morning which I had sky +'d and in two different shots of the audience, 8 out 9 women were wearing glasses, and 4 out 5 women in another shot were bespectacled! I find it astonishing though that in every show, there seem to be a large majority of female glasses wearers there. Do you think Graham Norton is trying to tell us something - that he is really NOT gay, but a closet girls with glasses fan?

Phil 11 Nov 2009, 01:29

An intriguing sighting on the train to work today. A tall, auburn girl, late 20s, fumbled in her bag for her glasses case as soon as she got onto the train. She took out a nice subtle plastic pair of specs with low plus lenses. She put them on for a moment but, before starting to read, she pushed them up into her hair. There they remained for the whole journey. I was convinced that she would start wearing them when she got up. But no. At Waterloo they went back into the shiny black case. I haven't noticed her on the train before. Her behaviour may indicate that she's a new gwg.

Obsessed 10 Nov 2009, 20:47

I was ice-skating in Manhattan today.

When I was practicing my brackets, I saw a young boy (10 to 12 y.o.) skating around. He was wearing a pair of glasses fixed on his face with a string attached to the ear pieces and going all the way around his head. When he looked into my eyes, I saw that his prescription was fairly strong. He was -8 minimum. The cut-in was very significant, and his eyes looked pretty small behind the powerful lenses with many power rings.

Someone called his name from behind the railing. He looked in the direction of the sound and squinted considerably to see who was standing 40 feet away from him. It was a very obvious sign that he will be getting a stronger prescription soon.

Don't get me wrong - I am not into kids at all. But I was just amazed that such a young guy was wearing some serious glasses. He may make someone very happy in the future unless he starts wearing lenses constantly.

The only thing that got me upset was the realization that he will probably need to give up ice skating if his eyesight keeps worsening so rapidly...

gwgs 10 Nov 2009, 08:36

I've also just had a nice sighting, standing in front of me in the Post Office queue that seemed to go on forever was a French 5ft 10" slim built brunette with short hair, held back by a hair band. She was wearing the usual hexi frames with thick wide arms, which we dark red and had open sides, I got a glimpse a few times of her thick lenses as she looked up from reading her book that I initally thought we around -5.5 but I moved slightly to the right to get a proper view of them I noticed these unpolished edge beauties must have been closer to a minus 9 or 10. The thickness at the side seemed to fill almost the entire open sides of the frames. It certainly made the wait more pleasureable.

Obsessed 08 Nov 2009, 08:53

I had a most amazing sighting yesterday on a NYC train. I was going uptown in Manhattan on a 1 train. When I rushed in, I sat down and saw something that made my day. Across the car from me were sitting two men. One of them was a gorgeous ~65 years old (one of those men who age absolutely fantastically and beautifully) - and he was wearing amazingly strong glasses (-10 D minimum). I hadn't seen anything quite as attractive in ages. His partner was at least 35 years younger than him (couldn't be more than 30). He had no glasses, but he was quite a pleasant-looking young man. The two guys were gently holding hands and talking about something in gentle voices.

I was so happy afterward! I wish one could see things like this more often on NY trains. It would make the world a much better place)))))))

Millhouse 06 Nov 2009, 06:33

I was out getting petrol today(gasoline for our US friends) while waiting to pay,in front of me, A lady, dark black long hair, curvy nice fiqure about 5'3'" tall,blue grey/eyes about 25yo. Had on a very nice pair of semi rimless frames, narrow arms with a blue/brown straight full bridge and rx about -5 or -6 or so. She noticed me looking at her (I guess she thought I was looking at her in the eyes where as actually it was her glasses) Did she look good in them though! Think I'll be filling up there more often from now on in the hope of seeing her again.

gwgs 05 Nov 2009, 01:22

Had "That 70s Show" on the tv this morning and (I think) it was Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas who was guest starrings (it looked remarkably like her) - it wasn't glasses she was wearing but sunglasses but it's worth a mention anyway as she was wearing some fantastic oversized plastic framed drop temples that almost got me as excited as seeing the real thing!

lentifan 04 Nov 2009, 15:14

Two interesting sightings yesterday in my local shopping mall. The first a pretty dark-haired girl wearing quite strong plus lenses in a thin black semi-rectangular plastic frame with red trim. The shape of the frame was not quite right for her but the lenses must have been not far short of lenticulars. Unfortunately she was stood talking on her mobile phone and I couldn't see her walking around.

The second a tall thin well-dressed girl in a white coat. She had an unusually long face with a pointed chin and was wearing black plastic rectangular frames, with the thick sides. They suited her well. The prescription looked a high moderately high minus( I estimate in the low teens). She seemed a little unsteady and awkward in her movements and I suspected she had some genetic syndrome or disorder. But she was attractive.

kat 04 Nov 2009, 15:05

Yes I agree, Lesley Ash def not planos but plus. i'd estimate somewhere around +1.5-+2 but could be wrong as is hard to tell. On subject of Holby City, I think Dr Cullen is rather handsome with those specs. I think they are plano, but occasionly when get a good shot they look slighly minus, though not much as def no cut in from front view. What does anyone else think?

gwgs 04 Nov 2009, 01:00

Saw Leslie Ash on BBC1's Holby City last night wearing some chunky black plastic square frames (the type people call "NHS glasses" - I daren't use this phrase after her near fatal illness at the hands of them though). I first of all thought they were plano but when the camera got behind or beside her several times I could see there was a plus prescription - not sure of the strength of it though.

hooked 02 Nov 2009, 23:35

On my way home from work by bus but an hour later as usual because of overload:

In the next village at the hospital station I glimpsed the typical reflections of convex glasses of a girl that came in.

One station before I had to leave I went to a place near the exit.

Long dark-blond haired, slim, around 20 years and a substantial prescription of at least +5.

She was probably in the top 20 I've ever seen.

Maybe she's working in the hospital and we have the same way.

gwgs 02 Nov 2009, 04:15

Several great sightings over the weekend, a young lady (22ish, bronze skin, great complexion with a figure to match) was wearing some great Prada glasses in the local Tesco so I decided to wander over to the shelves where she was perusing the goods and engaged her in conversation.

Her frames were the trendy thick arm glasses with orange arms and a black front probably a -6 prescription. She had pulled the frames to the end of her nose in order to look at the items on the shelf (which interested me as you hardly see any gwgs do this anymore) and when she was talking to me I could see how the thick arms hid the unpolished edges of the glasses very well. The lenses were probably 1/2 cm thick yet when she pushed her glasses up and we both walked to the checkout you couldn't see any thickness at all, just wonderful power rings!

The other sighting was a girl in the chemist, probably in her mid 30s with a figure hugging outfit sporting a modern take on drop temple's, these were quite a large frame with bifocals, she again had a great figure and pale complexion but stunning looks. I would estimate the lenses were about 8.5 / -9.

Phil 02 Nov 2009, 03:55

Lovely sighting today on my train. 3 women, all of whom are young and attractive presbyopes, got on at the same station.

One, who only sometimes dons her readers, put on a new pair (with slightly more plus than I'd seen in her before) to read a book. When we reached Waterloo she put them up into her hair. I think she can't really do without them now.

The other two sat together and chatted: they were obviously friends. After a while they stopped talking and started to read their papers. The older one (who is very attractive indeed, with lovely features and tumbling fair hair) always wears readers. She has a lovely pair with the sides of the lenses exposed. But today, no doubt out of embarassment in sitting opposite her friend, tried to read her paper without them. It involved a good bit of squinting and outstretching of arm: she looked gorgeous. But I'm not sure she could see much bar the headlines!

The other, who has stunning legs, has had readers for a few years but is not a regular user. She also did not reach into her bag today but, like her friend, tackled her paper at arm's length, though with apparently rather more success!

Tim 31 Oct 2009, 22:41

Some good sightings here in Abu Dhabi at Grand Prix time. Best of all by a hotel swimming pool - a stunning pair of twins, tall, blonde and leggy, 20-something, both wearing identical big roundish glasses with a significant Rx (about -7, I'd guess). I think they were speaking Russian or Serbo-Croat.

LikeGlass 31 Oct 2009, 18:54

Nothing like a GWG with a sense of humor! Was at a Chipolte's (Mexican / Southwest food chain) today, and everyone there was wrapped up in aluminum foil... Turns out that for Halloween, if you came done up as a Burrito (which they serve wrapped in foil) you would get one for free. What caught my eye was a cute girl who had actually taken the time to totally wrap her glasses (except for the lenses) in foil ! Not sure why I thought this was so cute, but I did. (She had done quite a nice and detailed job)

Puffin 31 Oct 2009, 15:56

Hmmm, there's nothing like travel for GWG sightings. And airports get far more interesting places if you're into glasses.

Slit 31 Oct 2009, 11:26

Today, I proved my self again that Air Travel is a great time to spot best of GWGs!!!

Was bound to Sri Lanka from New Delhi Airport...

(I was on Kingfisher, which has an amazingly well groomed staff and many ground staff with serious prescriptions too!!! Cheera Vijay Mallya for personally selecting the best - with nice glasses also!)

At entry to airport near a small cofee shop, a couple. Both with glasses. And the girls glasses frame really caught my interest. The upper line of the frame had a slight angle (just like on a cats eye) and lower part of framewas less probounced. Rx. guess abt -4

After security procedure, I was wandering around the waiting area... many gwgs with laptops browsing internet or reading... One lady (35 - 40yrs) with quite a good lip make up, was peeping over the glasses just like a newly prescribed + lense wearer. Somehow, as I got closer I figured out that these were very low minus lenses, and perhaps she wanted to try out the "intelligent look"

And randomly I spotted a fine looking lady (30 - 35) with sharp features, writing down something while talking to the lady next to her. Passing her by behind, I noticed the "Swimming Effect" through her glasses which proves it to be progressive bifocals... As I drew closer to her, she stood up and started walking around the lobby as if she was looking someone and randomly talked to few people which made me figure out she is doing a survey! Hm. Not bad, I volunteered to be on the survey, but she had a bit of cold attitude I suppose coz she had to start work at 6am on a cold saturday morning. Quite interestingly, she was still using the "looking over the lens" sometimes. I assume she is a very new wearer of plus glasses and perhaps first rx of hers came as bifocals!

Moving on, the book shop "Odyssey". Nice shop assistant with heft minus prescription passing -6 definitely (i benchmark my rx. guesses against the friend of mine who wear -8) She looked slightly inconfident probably because her lens was reflecting a lot of light making touch to see her eyes most of the times and perhaps she also was feeling it.

Another young (15 - 18 yrs) girl was around with +3 rx looking around the bookstore, but she did not catch much interest in me though.

Landing in Colombo, the info desk at end of arrivals. I could see some heavily make up worn girl with bifocals! Phew! Sri Lanka is improving ha? Awesome! Went close to talk to her and ask some minor question, I was a little dissapointed she is no longer in 20s at least. :(

... journey continues and more spottings!

Trent 26 Oct 2009, 18:11

I waited four hour today for the H1N1 vaccine but boy was it worth it! The nurse that took me was a nice asian lady with some of the thickest lenses that I have seen in awhile. Square wire rim frames with lots of rings. Estimated Rx around -15d.

Melyssa 23 Oct 2009, 09:17

I accompanied my husband to our primary physician's place this morning (no flu shots available yet), and 4 women of the staff, plus 2 more women in the waiting room at different times, all wore glasses -- 6 with plastic frames, all much smaller than mine, of course. The regular male visitors to this sight would have enjoyed the scene, definitely!

Aubrac 23 Oct 2009, 05:01

Just looked at 'Bargain Hunt' the BBC antiques programme. Many nice GWG's, one in particular, twenties, very pale complexion and very attractive, with dark purple hair, wearing very nice rectangular black frames with about +3 lenses.

Nice end to the morning!

Aubrac 23 Oct 2009, 00:42

Didier

CJ is quite right. I was on the train the other day and a load of schoolkids got on. Three girls about 13 years old sat at the table opposite me, and one got her glasses case out and put on a pair of low plus glasses to read her text book.

You should suggest to the new wearer she have an eye test as there may be some astigmatism that OTC readers won't correct.

Cactus Jack 22 Oct 2009, 16:18

Didier,

It is a myth that people only need reading help in their 40s. Reading help may be required at any age if a person is hyperopic or if they start developing presbyopia at an early age. It does happen and the only way to tell for sure is get an eye exam. I suspect your new colleague is a latent hyperope

C.

Didier 22 Oct 2009, 15:14

Today in our office, a new collegue, I`d never saw her in glasses, tried glasses from our secretary.

She wear reading glasses with low plus glasses since about two years.

The new collegue is onla 30 years old and at that age normaly nobody needs reading glasses. But she said that she could see better with them and she will buy reading glasses for her own next days.

A new glasses wearer in company. Well...

-9boy 20 Oct 2009, 02:06

When i was a kid, we use to go sometimes to uncles house. One weekend they came home, my younger cousin was wearing glasses. Uncle said was her first week with them. She was about 8 years old and was wearing a silver pretty glasses with purple temples. At this time don’t remember they were strong and she looks as a pretty blonde.

The following time we went to see uncles, we went a Saturday summer night to a swimming pull. When we arrived, my dad try to call my uncle, that was in the pull. He asked her mum why she didn’t said anything. My uncle explain that she probably didn’t see him cause she was without her glasses. Dad asked how could be, and remember my uncle told she couldn’t see a thing without glasses cause her myopia was -2.50. She came out of the pool and her mom put the glasses on her. After swimming, we all the kids playing out.

Some years before, we were to uncles house to dinner. My cousin just getting 11 years old. We were playing when parents taken dinner. I was surprised with cousin. Was pretty and very tall for her age. I ve noticed he wore glasses, in silver colour with stronger lenses as most of kids use to wear with this age. In these years, I had not much idea about glasses, I ve got mine 3 years after.

The following time I saw my cousin was much later. I went to uncles home in my university years. My cousin, was an university student too, very tall and pretty. This day, she came with her older sister. They went from the optician. She sat on the lounge and my uncle ask her for how contacts were going. She said these are the second she try on the day. A time later, she still sitting, and call her mom to get water to drink. Uncle instead her to go to the kitchen. She said please, mom, give me, I cant see” I was surprised and asked the older sister. She told me that she was trying to get contacts for second or third time with no good fit, and the ones she was wearing these afternoon, were a trial set with only” -5, so she couldn’t see a thing. I was very curious about it.

At the end of the afternoon, they were to the optician to let the trial lenses. They turned in a time. My uncle went with a light brown plastic glasses with very thick lenses. I found her very pretty, tall, blonde…and these glasses, with the white circles around the edges…We were talking all the evening. She show me her glasses. She talk me about her sight and getting contacts…her prescription was -14. At this time, i just getting contacts with -6.

The last time I saw her, was in the street, years after. She was reciently married and she was wearing thick glasses, so I supposed the contacts still not working well for her.

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 19 Oct 2009, 11:32

Like lenses you are probably right yours truly hit them at 46 my gf at 45 but these days at 54 I would expect any lady I am interested in to wear bifocals or varifocals

Like Lenses 19 Oct 2009, 11:24

minus 5 who luvs gwg

An interesting thought is that most likely all three are in bifocals now.

Millhouse 19 Oct 2009, 07:31

while shopping at my local supermarket to day.....

A lady, about 30 yo, med build, blonde(ish) "bob" cut style. Had on a a pair of wide armed semi-rimless with multi colored patterns on the arms. RX about -2 or perhaps -3, quite a bit of cut-in so maybe have been high index lenses. Either way she looked great with the frames & lenses she had on. Quite made my day that did!

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 18 Oct 2009, 22:21

Was thinking of my favourite 3 sightings in no particular order

1.a long brown haired girl with about minus 18 big frames but it was about 1987 very pretty with a micro skirt probably mid 20s

2.A pretty blonde again big frames well it was 1982 very high minus possibly minus20plus

3 A denim clad girl with octagonal gold rims about minus 15

All a dream sighting for us OOs

Aubrac 16 Oct 2009, 02:17

Went to London yesterday and just so many girls wearing glasses, many with with low plus prescriptions.

On the train, the young lady ticket inspector had nice rectangular frames with purple arms and about -3, sitting opposite was a young African girl with small frames and and about -4, and a few rows along a Danish or Scandinavian blonde with very nice semi-rimless frames with unusual perforated arms, about -3 I'd say.

A family of three French people sat at my table seat and after a short while the young lady, early twenties, asked her papa for 'mes lunettes' when starting to read some English exercise papers with her mum. He reached into his bag and gave then to her without a case. She polished then carefully and put them on. Very nice purple frames with a pearl like decoration at the hinges, right lenses low minus no more than -1 with some cylinder, and left lens a low plus of about +1 with quite a lot of cylinder. She looked absolutely lovely wearing them.

She kept them on all the time, and when we arrived at Victoria still had then on and seemed to be FT for the day.

Went to an exhibition and as I said, just so many girls wearing glasses, interesting that the plus correction was more evident than any minus.

On another note, when I left for the morning and went to the bedroom to say goodbye to my wife, found her wearing her prism glasses to watch the television. When she got home she kept her glasses on for the evening, although had at some stage swapped the prism glasses for a different pair.

See what happens today!

Yoyo 14 Oct 2009, 15:15

I get the feeling that the advent of things like high-index lenses and anti-reflective coating has made people more willing to try larger frames again. The drawbacks of such (glasses that are too heavy and have too many reflections hiding the eyes/impairing night vision) are no longer as significant.

ehpc 14 Oct 2009, 14:19

chrisb.................you are experiencing the emotions eloquently expressed by Thomas Hardy in a poem written in his extreme old age after he had seen a pretty girl wandering around the country lanes in Dorset or wherever:-

But Time,to make me grieve/Part steals, let's part abide/And shakes this fragile frame at eve/With throbbings of noontide.

Adalle 14 Oct 2009, 10:53

During the last 2 years my girlfriend has purchased 4 new pairs of glasses (with a little bit of my "push"). One night, some days ago, I found the pair she wore before them, which was a bit broken and asked her to put them on and after that to put on one pair after the other with chronological order. Only then did I realize that each pair had larger frames than its older one! I guess this could be a coincidence, but today I passed from 3 optical stores and noticed that the majority of the frames where plastic, large ones with wide frames and bold colors. Good news I guess.

Puffin 13 Oct 2009, 01:43

About time too. Things got pretty grim with all these tiny tiny glasses, no cut in, boring little frames. Looking forward to seeing something more interesting!

gwgs 13 Oct 2009, 00:57

I too hope to see many more of these sightings ChrisB as the first girls with glasses I noticed were those with oversized glasses such as Paulina Porizkova and Sophia Loren and these type of glasses are the ones that really make my knees go weak.

I am at the opposite end of the spectrum with regard to age, being just a couple of years under 30 so hope to see lot of big glasses on sexy girls for many decades to come! :)

chrisb 12 Oct 2009, 14:25

It was GWGs, i thought of trying to get a picture with my blackberry during the cricket (quite openly of course(, but I think such encounters live best in the memory.

Maybe it presages many more such sightings of BIG frames in the next few years, as fashions change. I am quite looking forward to seeing that in my declining years. (regular contributors to ES once recorded their age .)

When he was nearly 90, my father in law remarked that his libido was gone, his sense of smell and hearing were poor and all he could manage to digest was was soft food. But, the sight and sound of a cork being pulled from a good bottle of wine still gave him the same thrill of anticipation he'd experienced as a young man.

I hope to be able to say the same about GWG sightings and encounters, plus the odd bottle of wine.

gwgs 12 Oct 2009, 08:00

Saw a delightful gwg on the TV over the weekend by the name of Kelly Klein, I've never heard of her before but she is a well known photographer who wears big bold frames and is rather a stunner. Here are a couple of photos of her;

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/TAWAZQ_-yR1/Cinema+Society+Mulberry+Host+Screening+Synecdoche/_MddMg7LM-d/Kelly+Klein

gwgs 12 Oct 2009, 01:54

Sounds like a great wedding Chris, what an attraction

Peter 11 Oct 2009, 10:03

I have an idea...what does you all thing about all the members on here meeting up?

migobsessed 11 Oct 2009, 09:38

This morning was fun. I went to the lounge to see who was awake and one person (-6 in contacts) was but he could not see me quietly mouthing "do u want coffee" from about 3 feet away til he put his glasses on. Another woke up and asked me to find his specs (-7 i estimate) amongst the mess and another (-2/-3) was sat around for a while without glasses and then found them, put them on and said "morning everyone, I can see you now!". Only 3 of the 9 of us (including me) remained in glasses for the morning, but it was a very nice site. Wasn't deliberate that there were more men than women but I was happy especially with my friend who is -7 and kept his very trendy chunky black metal frames on all the time.

Peter - don't have too many parties - too much like hard work! But worth it last night!

Melyssa 11 Oct 2009, 08:04

Chris B,

Those frames were most likely from France, or any other part of Europe, because most of the glasses in the U.S. are still small. That's why most of mine are from the 1980s to early 1990s.

Peter 11 Oct 2009, 03:19

migobsessed

can i come to your next party?

chrisb 11 Oct 2009, 02:43

went to a wedding on saturday on the cabridge/essex borders. Amongst the guests was a very pretty girl with the most amazing frames. Sooo big and round. The top curve of the frame and lens obscured her eyebrows and the bottom curve was just about level with the bottom of her nose.

The RX was quite strong too.

I later discovered she was american, but living france with her boyfriend, who was also there. (lucky chap)

Later in the afternoon a group of us played french cricket rather drunkenly and she joined in, to reveal that she also had a sparkling personality. French cricket involves a lot of looking down to the ground when batting. This caused her to be constantly pushing the glasses up on her face.

I know that big frames are starting to come back but this is the first time I have seen any this big and round.

Wonder if they were french or from the USA? Now looking forward to seeing lots more BIG frames in the next few years.

migobsessed 10 Oct 2009, 17:04

I had a party at my house this evening and there are 10 people sleeping over. It got very late and we were getting ready for bed and one by one we went to the bathroom....and one by one we came out wearing glasses. ALL of us are myopic it seems and all were wearing lenses. I knew this but rarely see my friends without lenses. The expressions of my friends faces as everyone noticed that everyone else must wear contacts was so funny. Suddenly we got into this myopia conversation (subtley fueled by me) and were trying each others glasses on trying to ascertain who had the strongest. Our Rx's seem to range from -7 to about -2. It was a lot of fun. Everyone looked great in their glasses, its weird how we all seem to want to wear contacts though. Can't wait for tomorrow morning to see who sneaks to the bathroom and puts their lenses in early and who doesn't bother!!! I'm rather lucky having 7 myopic men to look at in the morning.

sum1wholovesgirlswithglasses 06 Oct 2009, 20:43

migobsessed thankfs a lot for answering my previous questions^^ Im farsighted my current prescription is +3.5 in both eyes.i first got glasses at the age of 7 my rx back then around +5 i only used my speccies most for school stuffs the other time i went bareeyed nowadays i wear em when necessary like driving,tv,movie theates,computer /books/newsparer yet i barely use my glasses in public cause i still fear that girls prefer males without glasses i never considered contacts cause i find its quite a hassle +my eyeys are too dry according to my ophamolgist.my interest for girls with glasses started nearly 13 years ago,it all started with a red haired girl you know my school had 5 girls with emo glasses ,3 girls with high prescription 1 medium and that red haired girl had a fairly weak out of the 5 she was the one which i had an eye for ,she wore glasses 24 hours 7 days a week i never saw her bareeyed she even had glasses on whilst swimming:) i like girls in any prescription as long she has the right frames halfrimless,rimless or emoglasses

migobsessed 06 Oct 2009, 16:25

sum1wholovesgirlswithglasses

I am -4.5 ish and -2 cyl. I like any minus Rx in guys, but I guess something similar to me is my preference if I had a choice. My obsession started for all things 'optical' about 10 years ago when I was late teens. It started when I met a guy in the place I was working at, we got chatting about swimming in the work pool and he started talking about his eyesight and the fact he wore contacts (-6.5). I was totally facinated. My Rx at the time was pretty low so had no issues swimming and seeing at same time (now however I do!). What about you, what are your preferences in girls? What is your Rx? Why do you love gwg's?

Wilson 06 Oct 2009, 07:41

Lentifan:

See the vision thread, its more appropriate

sum1wholovesgirlswithglasses 05 Oct 2009, 21:14

migobsessed whats your RX ?do you prefer males in the lower medium or high prescription range?when did your obsession for migs start?

lentifan 05 Oct 2009, 15:22

Wilson

I'm sorry to hear your fiancee's vision is poor. Is this caused by her glaucoma or just by the limited field of vision with lenticular lenses?

Anyway, I hope you have a long and happy life together and I shall envy you.

migobsessed 05 Oct 2009, 13:22

Katy

Yes, 'good' Dr's with glasses are the best, they seem to have such a way which calms you down (of course some Dr's without glasses can also do this!). See my post below about another gorgeous bespectacled Dr.

I just got a doctorate in clinical nutrition and my mum, although struggling to speak was trying to tell him not to mess with us as I know my stuff and know about hospitals etc. He peered at me and our eyes both met through the glasses we were wearing and he said 'well done, i could use a chat with you as my nutrition is rubbish'....mmmm if only that would really happen. i'm way to scared to get his contact details! plus, i'm late 20's but got asked for ID on the day of my graduation when I was attempting to buy a glass of wine with dinner (i'm in the UK). Everyone thinks I look about 15, even my glasses don't give me an air of maturity!

migobsessed 05 Oct 2009, 13:12

Today my mum was taken into hospital with a suspected stroke. It was very stressful. However the Dr attending to her was early 30's, tall, slim, blonde-brown spiky hair and a wonderful pair of FC half rimless specs with minus lenses (I estimate -3/-4). He looked absolutely stunning in them. He only took them off once to rub his eye then put them straight back on. It's sad my mum is so ill, but at least we had someone nice to look at.....

Phil 05 Oct 2009, 11:19

How right you are Katy. My daughter hasn't been well and a gwg consultant came to house. She wasn't classically beautiful but she was calm, re-assuring and so so sexy. Nice black frames with minus lenses and just exuding intelligence. Love at first sight!

Katy 05 Oct 2009, 10:18

migobsessed - your doctor sounds gorgeous! It reminds me of an Asian opthalmologist I had an appointment with once, with really nice minus glasses. He was so masterful and calm about something that I had been really worried about. I think doctors are often made more attractive by the fact they are so knowledgeable and, I think, impressive - the good ones anyway :-)

Wilson 05 Oct 2009, 08:13

Lentifan:

I'm glad you are not 30 years younger as my fiancee is a long term lenti-wearer. She had congenital cataracts and glaucoma. Unfortunately, even with +23 lensess, her vision is very very poor.

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 04 Oct 2009, 22:37

And if I was 30 years younger I would be asking about the Asian girl!!!

lentifan 04 Oct 2009, 13:16

Scott

The redhead girl you saw sounds like my dream girl. If I was 30 years younger I'd be asking you which university.

Alan 04 Oct 2009, 12:39

Me and my friend went to watch a game in a bar today. I wear glasses fulltime and he wears glasses for distances so he needed his glasses to watch the game.

A few minutes later 3 guys sat down beside us, 2 of them in glasses and the third guy put on a pair to watch the game.

scott 03 Oct 2009, 12:55

I'm guessing that large frames are coming back. My local town is full of university stuedents again (making me feel old) and seen two girls:

1 asian with large frames and -14 at least lenses

1 redhead, with lenticular bifocals and hearing aids, amazingly huge eyes!

scott 03 Oct 2009, 12:48

I'm guessing that large frames are coming back. My local town is full of university stuedents again (making me feel old) and seen two girls:

1 asian with large frames and -14 at least lenses

1 redhead, with lenticular bifocals and hearing aids, amazingly huge eyes!

migobsessed 01 Oct 2009, 15:25

My doctor, mid-30's, tall, slim, asian, always wears his black rectangular wire framed specs. I suspect he's around -6 in right eye and -4 in the other, there's a noticeable difference. Unfortunately i've had to visit him a little too often lately and he is getting more attractive each time I see him. He is quite an animated speaker and everytime he asks about a symptom and I reply his eyes widen and stare and me through the lenses in anticipation of my answer. Being sick is no fun but he makes the visits a little less painful I can say. I've never seen him take them off, or wearing contacts though he did say he could sympathise with me as i've been having trouble with mine because of some medication i'm on. Then he made a jesture at his glasses and with a big smile and a slight wink he said "i've never seen you wearing glasses, you really should you know". At that point I looked at his hand and saw a wedding ring. What a pity!

Aubrac 01 Oct 2009, 03:31

Went into the bank yesterday with a mortgage query and saw the mortgage advisor. A really, really, attractive lady, early forties, super figure, light tan and shoulder length blonde hair.

Sat at the desk and she immediately put on a pair of thick armed acetate Dior glasses to look at the computer screen, she then turned to answer my questions and I could see the lenses were quite a thick plus with a fair magnification of her also very nice eyes. She took them off but when looking at the computer put them back on, I don’t think she could read anything on-screen without them.

I found several other things to ask her about to prolong the interview and see her with glasses and shortly before we finished she pushed them back on her head. I would say left lens was about +4 and right about +2/+3 and the higher magnification of the left was easily visible when she was looking at me.

Think I may have a lot more mortgage queries in the future!

OnLooker 30 Sep 2009, 05:56

What was to be an exvting encounterturned into a non sightong as she took glasses off for her presentation and then leftstraight away!!! She did spot my interest and we exvhanged big smiles...she will never guess why i was so attracted to her!!!

OnLooker 30 Sep 2009, 00:34

Sitting in a conference i am facing a wonderful woman, 35ish, very nice figures wearing plastic frames rx glasses my guess is that they're + lenses. just waiting for the break to get closer and may be have a chat...i will keep you posted.

Hollie 29 Sep 2009, 15:47

Our reluctant workplace GWG showed up with specs today- sadly not on her face- in her hand as she walked in and on the desk for most of the day. Cue squinting- and she had specs right next to her! She seems to have stopped wearing lenses completely. Last week on a work social she was bare eyed, I had to wear my glasses, and I could see her squinting madly at faces. I think she must have some kind of contacts issue otherwise she'd be wearing them and enjoying clear vision surely?

Clare  29 Sep 2009, 13:50

As you all now know, lots of GWGs in my new City workplace. Another to report, late 20s, attractive with shoulder length hair. Reddish brown frames with a mild plus prescription but only ever seen her wear them in her hair!

Guest 29 Sep 2009, 00:01

Sunday afternoon, queueing at the tills of a large store. was an extremely attractive girl in her mid-20's. Wild blond hair and about 6' tall, sprayed on jeans tucked into 5" heeled boots - then she turned round and I could see she was wearing a pair of blue tortoiseshell plastic frames with about -5 lenses.

She looked fantastic. Then her partner walked over carrying a couple of pairs of off-the-shelf readers, one pair in a leopardskin pattern the other blue spots on a white frame.

He said "how about these??", to which she replied "They're for reading - these aren't reading glasses (pointing at her glasses)" He looked confused and said "Oh I didnt realise - well you wear those for reading", pointing to the glasses she was wearing.

By now she was getting a little annoyed or embarrassed. "Dean, I wear these for everything - reading, driving, working. We've been together long enough for you to know that, surely".

With that she turned her back on him and he went off to return the readers to the display stand.

Hilarious I thought. He doesnt know how lucky he is.

Millhouse 28 Sep 2009, 04:06

At my local shopping mall yesterday....

A young lady, about 5' 20- 22 yo, long dark hair.Had on a sort of retro round 80's styled pair of plastic blue frames,though not too large for her face. Rx at least -8 to -10. She had a confident look which is always a good positive attribute for a gwg.

And 24 Sep 2009, 16:18

Hollie, don't be sad, I bet lots have noticed your glasses and nodded with approval even if they haven't commented.Has anyone wanted to try them on ?

Hollie 24 Sep 2009, 14:21

Clare

Perhaps you are just yet to find those perfect frames?

I'm allowed to go back to contacts next week : ) and am really looking forward to it. Had a work social event last night and a partner commented to me, oh, I thought the glasses were just a new thing for work, as I was wearing them in the evening. I said sadly not and explained the contacts situation. He said he thought lots of girls my age just wore glasses to be trendy- not sure how true that is really?!

Clare 24 Sep 2009, 14:01

Hollie - can't remember the last time. Unless I couldn't wear contacts, that's the only time it'd happen. No need ;)

I would like to - one day - find some glasses that I'd like to be seen out in. Not sure that'll happen though.

Hollie 24 Sep 2009, 12:34

Clare- are you never seen with glasses in public at all?

Clare 21 Sep 2009, 12:59

This is more of a non-sighting so not sure if its the right place but here goes.

Meeting some more of my new colleagues on Friday, I introduced myself to someone and we decided we'd already met albeit briefly. Then she said to me "but you looked different - you were wearing glasses ...".

You'll be disappointed to know that I assured her I wasn't. I obviously have a speccy double!

chrisB 21 Sep 2009, 12:12

Astra,

I think its partly because the pay is often so bad that new glasses are an un-affordable luxury. In other cases, I am sure they are just so into their research subject it never occurs to them.

Slit 21 Sep 2009, 07:41

Re: 30 something...

well. yes, the astigmatism also seem to make the need for glasses when reading...

and re the post by Phil abt mom of young son.

modern trends cause the girls to marry pretty late and by the time their child grow up to 5 yrs of age they are almost on verge of presbyopia!

how much do u estimate the age?

Phil 21 Sep 2009, 05:45

I sat next to a pretty, pregnant 30-something on the train today. During the journey she took out her phone and slipped on anice pair of semi-rimless specs to read messages on it. I think she was astigmatic. As I peeped through her lenses (as one does) I got the impression that things were swirling about. Quite alluring!

Astra 20 Sep 2009, 04:29

Re chrisb: Interesting to know that there are that many doctorates/professors who didn't even change their frames for 20 years or more in Cambridge.

chrisb 17 Sep 2009, 15:37

odd sighting in Paperchase in Cambridge this afternoon. A girl, late 20s early thirties with blonde hair and quite a striking prescription. Flat fronted lenses and about 5mm edge beyond the rim of the frames. But the odd thing was the frames themselves - they were circa late 60's early 1970s perfectly round, gold frames with thin wire arms. Unless the GWG was a lot older than she looked it was almost as tho she'd got new lenses put in her mums frames. I may have remarked before that the University can be like a glasses museum. The brightest students tend to stay on and do doctorates, then become researchers etc If their prescription didnt change, they didnt change their frames - over 20 years maybe.

Clare 17 Sep 2009, 11:45

Phil - I'm sure you know the answer to that question without asking! And yes there does seem to be a disproportionate number of GWGs, there are some less-than noteworthy MIGs and it seems the girls have stolen the show, rhinestones all over the place!

Phil 17 Sep 2009, 00:56

Clare, it sounds like you work in surroundings that would be heavenly for chaps like us. Talking of "outings" have you appeared there in specs yet?

designereyez 17 Sep 2009, 00:50

Galileo, congratulations for making it for so long without reading correction. Reminds me of my father who almost completely avoided glasses until quite recently in his sixties. I think it is an individual thing. I am farsighted in the first place, so I will definitely not be able to do what you have done. I don't think most others would be able to either!

Clare 16 Sep 2009, 11:34

Another gwg outed today, but with more conservative semi-rimless frames in a dark brown metal. She's blond and the combination worked well. They didn't seem very strong, probably in the -1s. She put them on in a meeting to see something on a screen then kept putting them on and off, they're obviously new. In the same meeting a guy sitting next to me with plus lenses - who I'd seen with glasses before but assumed he was taking a rest from contacts - put on his glasses, saying "it's so nice to see!". He seemed to have them on for the rest of the day, maybe he's not a contacts wearer after all.

Galileo 16 Sep 2009, 06:57

Designereyez - I guess it depends what you are prepared to put up with. I'm mid 50's and not using reading glasses. By the end of the day I know my eye muscles have been working! But I don't get headaches and I can see to do what I need to do including reading books late at night. Really small print can be a problem in low light conditions, but it always was. I could probably be more comfortable with reading glasses, but as my optician said "its a choice, you can see enough and if you used glasses you might see more"

designereyez 15 Sep 2009, 15:19

Phil, at my eye appt my doctor told me she just had a 27-year old patient to whom she prescribed extra reading correction. She (probably about 28-30 herself) also told me that she wore reading glasses on top of her contacts when doing night reading so that she would not wake up with pain around her eyes. Her explanation for all this was that we are just using our focusing muscles much more than even a generation ago with computers and smaller electronic devices like iPhones and Blackberrys.

Aubrac 15 Sep 2009, 12:34

Was supping a pint of Abbott in Wetherspoons bar at Stanstesd Airport the other dat. many gwg as usual, mainly low minus.

Partner of lady in front of me asked what the departures were. she handed him her about -3,00 glasses and he said, cant see a thing. She then put her glasses back on upside down to read the board. This happened a few times - maybe better reversed prescription or lenses are closer to eye - any thoughts?

Puffin 15 Sep 2009, 09:02

I'm going to have to spend some time on trains just so I can get some sightings!

I miss the good old days when I used public transport to get to work. There were some nice sightings back then.

Phil 15 Sep 2009, 02:13

Nice sighting on train today. A pretty mum with young son took out a pair of rimless readers to read her newspaper. I could not believe she was old enough to be a presbyope. But it may just be that, like policemen and judges, presbyopic gwgs look younger every day!

Mark 15 Sep 2009, 00:20

2 nice sightings on the same train last night back to london.

1 guy with myodiscs, which by the looks of things werent strong enough, judging by the way he held everything about 3 inches from the front of his lenses, and squinted like mad to see anything in the distance. Hard to judge RX of myodiscs, i think in the mid -20's though

and a nice lady, early 20's with high index lenses but about a -12 to -15 RX as there was a lot of cut in. Frames suited her very well.

Astra 13 Sep 2009, 01:06

Yea, puffin. Thanks for sharing that...

The speaker probably don't even know what axes really are. How can one "has an axis on one of the eyes"? One can't possess the axes! The axes are there for correction, not that your eye has an axis.

Puffin 11 Sep 2009, 13:48

I've heard "I've got an axis in that eye"

if you weren't an OO or eyecare professional, you'd wonder what they were talking about!

JP 11 Sep 2009, 12:35

I often find I have to hold back my words to avoid outing myself as an optic obsessive.

A friend has recently been for an eye test and reported "a stigma in both eyes". Another reports being "both shortsighted and longsighted" while his lenses and Rx are clearly for shortsight with astigmatism.

I've heard others who've got "a stigmatism".

Sometimes perhaps we know a little too much.

SimonC 11 Sep 2009, 08:51

A nice sighting at lunchtime when I popped into a supermarket in town. A girl dressed as a butterfly (I think) with some wings and and so forth with a badge '18 today'. Perfect combination of blonde hair and black plastic frames. Prescription I would guess similar to mine so -4 to -6 range. Then realised there were a whole host of 'butterflies' or insects all looking very delightful but none as much as the glasses wearing one. I had to say Happy Birthday on my way past and got a quick smile and thanks. Certainly one of the better lunchtimes in recent times.

ehpc 07 Sep 2009, 14:44

Not that I know anything about that particular woman (indeed 'media' girlies tend to rather irritate me) but I just mean as a generality brains and beauty is the most brilliant combination. But if she were REALLY brainy, would she be hosting TV shows? I doubt it myself, although there have certainly been many obvious exceptions.

ehpc 07 Sep 2009, 14:40

Brains and beauty.............indeed...........THE BEST OF THE BEST :)

Karen X 07 Sep 2009, 13:36

At the end of "Bang Goes the Theory" on BBC1 this evening they showed a short promo for the Bang Goes the Theory Roadshow. In 2 different shots you could see Liz Bonnin (one of the presenters on the tv show) wearing glasses. They were dark plastic rectangular frames. But as she was only seen for a few seconds at a time I couldn't tell what sort of prescription she had.

I didn't know she wore glasses. She is also very attractive and intelligent (brains and beauty - yum!).

I can't find the promo anywhere on the BBC website. It wasn't part of the main programme - it came on after the end credits finished, so it's not on the BBC iPlayer either.

If anyone knows of the whereabouts of any photos or videos of Liz wearing glasses please post the links on this Eyescene.

Thanks!

Yoyo 01 Sep 2009, 13:58

Moreover, it is well-documented that East Asians seem to have a much greater likelihood for myopia, while Europeans seem to have greater likelihood for hyperopia.

I doubt there's much correlation based on hair color, though.

Filthy McNasty 01 Sep 2009, 11:38

To correct my own typo: "already"

Filthy McNasty 01 Sep 2009, 11:36

The word "racist" is, in my humble opinion, trotted out too often and too easily. Just as we need to be vigilant against truly racist behavior, so we need to guard against stifling legitimate inquiry or discourse by means of such labels indiscriminately bandied about, often to squelch legitimate discussion.

I have recently read that certain studies have hinted that redheads may be more prone to certain types of skin cancer. We alredy know that redheads are more prone to sunburn. Are these propositions racist? Surely to Dog not.

Let us not trivialize a great evil by tilting publicly at windmills.

Clare 01 Sep 2009, 11:30

On the contacts on planes discussion ... I've done both. I wore contacts on a flight from Dubai no problem but general advise is to take them out as the air conditioning on the plane dries them out they say. For me it'd depend whether they were already irritating me, in which case I'll take them out even if it's only a short stint.

Paul 01 Sep 2009, 11:23

I think the red-hair/glasses discussion can safely be said to not be racist, at least not necessarily. Let's hope.

Of the people I know with red hair, I actually think more of them are without glasses than with. Or maybe it's about even. I'm curious, though, if you account for education, culture, or other important environmental factors, how different races' rates of myopia or other eye conditions would compare. Problem is it's hard to account for the environmental factors. Asian countries like Taiwan have very high myopia rates, but also have rather different educational systems from, say, the US.

Sam 01 Sep 2009, 11:15

Regarding red hair and glasses; in some parts of the world this could be considered a racist discussion.

Perhaps, its just the fact that you do not register a red haired person without glasses.

I have red hair and glasses, but my two sisters and 1 brother manage 2 red-heads and 0 glasses between them.

It's been fun reading these discussions

Thomas 01 Sep 2009, 08:32

Glassesforeveryone, now that you mention it, I can't think of a single redhead girl I know who doesn't wear/need correction. I think there is something in this.

Galileo 01 Sep 2009, 04:52

I've heard that contact lens wearers can have more problems with dry eyes on planes because the air pumped around planes has low humidity - which also contributes to dehydration and the risk of DVT on long flights. I've noticed a lot of glasses wearing on long overnight flights, followed by people disappearing into the toilets and re-emerging bare eyed (and presumably with contacts) just before the plane lands.

JC 31 Aug 2009, 16:05

And - I know some that take out contacts for flying but I'd say the majority of dedicated contact wears who wouldn't be caught dead in glasses don't bother. I've never had problems wearing them.

And 31 Aug 2009, 15:40

Is it common for contact wearers to revert to glasses when flying ? My gf didn't when we recently had a 4hr flight & had no problems, although as I've said before she never takes them out anyway.

Clare 31 Aug 2009, 08:45

Sounds like this lady would have big problems navigating around an airport! Unless I was with someone else I'd definately wear my glasses if I'd taken out my contacts, otherwise I'd have real trouble reading departure boards and finding where to go!

JC 31 Aug 2009, 07:03

Last night at an airport I saw a blond girl in her 20's looking at a coffee shop menu from maybe 10 feet away with a full effort squint. She then stepped closer, maybe 7 feet from the menu, and continued with the hard squint before turning and walking away. I don't know if she read the menu and decided she didn't want anything or gave up on reading it, but if she did manage to read it I don't suppose she could have been more then about -1.5. I wonder if she is not yet full time wear or is and had removed her contacts for the flight.

Melyssa 29 Aug 2009, 07:55

Shown the last two days on "Match Game '77" on the Game Show Network, and to be continued on Monday (1:00 p.m. EDT), there has been a contestant who wore very large rimless butterfly-shaped frames with tinted lenses in a plus prescription. The host, Gene Rayburn, commented on them and asked to try them on. He looked very funny, and when the woman put her glasses back on, I noticed her eyes looked bigger, hence the plus RX.

Galileo 28 Aug 2009, 04:59

glassesforeveryone, Tim, Mark - I never thought about it but four of the highest myopes I ever met were red heads. I guess it is difficult to be objective with so many contact lens wearers around. I think I agree.

Phil 28 Aug 2009, 04:05

There was a pretty young blonde on my train this morning. When she got on, wearing sunglasses, I noticed her at once. After she sat down she took out a copy of the Independent (so she wasn't entirely perfect!), put away the sunglasses and put on a gorgeous pair of purple specs. I was a bit perplexed by the lenses which looked significantly plus but protruded from the frames at the top. Maybe there was some serious astigmatism. She looked stunning in them and kept them on when she left the train at Waterloo.

Clare 27 Aug 2009, 11:48

Phil - not really much chance of that happening of course and they don't need any more GWGs where I work. Folks here would be distracted most of the time!

Phil 27 Aug 2009, 01:50

Clare, FCUK = yum to me. I don't like the ostentatious Prada and D&G frames with all the shiny stones in them. You are far too modest (as always). i bet you look stuinning in specs. Tell me about the new work. You could have used it as the chsance to "come out" as a fulltime gwg!

ehpc 26 Aug 2009, 16:44

Boldest is best......................:)

Clare 26 Aug 2009, 13:09

And - yes I suppose they are (FCUK), i guess the word *statement* is key here. Mine are possibly less ostentatious ;)

 26 Aug 2009, 00:09

the myodisc wearing guy i mentioned the other day seems to have gotten a new pair of glasses.

These have smaller bowls than the last ones, so he may have had a prescription jump, still cant tell personally.

Tim 25 Aug 2009, 22:05

Yes, glassesforeveryone, I agree. When I was a student, CLs were very rare (although not completely unknown), so you tended to see what you got! I soon noticed a distinct correlation between red hair and (often high) myopia, but apart from the usual family genetics have never been able to explain this.

And 25 Aug 2009, 14:06

Clare, are yours not designer ?

Mark 25 Aug 2009, 13:36

i dont think its the case, i think its just that they get a lot of attention anyway, they are very rarely worried about what people think of them as they are going to stand out any way. Instead they may simply just not care about wearing contacts and instead just wear whatever they feel like without worrying about what people think of them?

glassesforeveryone 25 Aug 2009, 13:21

Not sure where best to post this. I was just wondering whether anyone else had noticed that redheaded people seem to have a high propensity of myopia.

There is no scientific basis to my observation, but I am convinced by this. Has anyone else noticed this, or any other correlations?

Clare 25 Aug 2009, 12:31

I've recently started a new role in London's *newer* financial district -Canary Wharf, really nice people and what strikes me about the females is a strong propensity for them to wear statement designer specs - lots of very visible Prada, Tommy Hilfiger, Chanel logos everywhere. I'm almost out of place! And no, don't suggest I join them just for the hell of it ...

 25 Aug 2009, 09:05

Found a minus myodisc wearing guy with long ginger hair, in Barking London with a routine. Unable to guess his RX as im no good guessing when it comes to myodiscs.

He goes with his gf / partner to the train station every weekday morning around 8am and picks her up again at about 6 pm on the same days.

Most of the time he's wearing his myodiscs (sometimes contacts), though at first were a little hard to spot as they dont seem to stand out like most other myodisk's ive seen, im guessing a plano carrier or some blending.

I happen to be catching the trains around these times each day, so it was a nice surprise when i learned of this.

So keep your eyes open those of you from London, you might get a glimpse if you go that way at those times.

Millhouse 22 Aug 2009, 04:12

Driving on my way home from work on Friday....

A dark haired lady, about 30yo,nice fiqure,5' to 5'5, jeans, blue t-shirt. She had a metal oval frame style in dark metal blue or grey with a lovely -7 or -8 rx (assuming she didnt have high index lenses) she seemed a bit un-confident in herself I thought. I wonder now who she is and if i'd see her again along that bit of road again. Def my type of GWG, very pretty and cute with a hint of vulnerability. A sighting I wont forget for quite a while- you know what I mean, someone who may be "the one" that eyes across the room thing at bars of parties. Anyway- I digress somewhat.

gwgs 20 Aug 2009, 01:24

Just had a very interesting with a work colleague about another (female) colleagues glasses - as previously mentioned, we have two gwgs (used to be three) in our office, one is a high myope who I had previously guessed was -10 and another whose prescription she had told me had changed three or four times in the last year. She has a few mm's of thickness at the side of her split rim glasses but no significat cut in and I'd therefore guessed she would be around -4 (although the no cut in part had me puzzled). Anyhow, when I was talking to her yesterday she said that she was (as most people say) "blind as a bat" without glasses and couldn't see the computer screen, nor even get around without her spex and she would be helpless without them! I would have liked to ask then to try them on to see how strong they were but resisted the temptation.

This morning then I was talking to our high myope girl who asked to be excused as her phone rang, she said it was probably our colleague who had sent her a text earlier saying she would be late in as her lenses had fallen out of her glasses, she had tried to put them back in but couldn't get them to go back in. She asked how it happened and she said she didn't know (??) and she was now on the way to the opticians to either get a new pair of glasses (expensive option) or see if they could refit the lenses. Now, given our conversation yesterday I didn't know how this would be possible but I will enquire as to she got on when she comes into the office.

Once the call ended my high myope colleague was saying how she felt sorry for her not being able to see for the moment, I then said (pretending to be unknowledgeable about this), why couldn't they share glasses for the day (joke!) or did she have a spare she could lend her but she said, "I am very blind and my glasses would be far too strong for her, I am minus 900" - this I guessed to be -9, I asked what our colleagues prescription was and she said she didn't know but probably around "minus 200" -2. I'm suprised by this as she had a change of prescription four times and is only -2, surely she got her guess of her prescription wrong as even with -0.5 increases every time it would mean her original prescription was 0 and yet she had been wearing glasses for years before this constant change in prescription.

Chris  13 Aug 2009, 23:54

Had a good sighting at the train station, recently. There are a couple of brothers who live on my road. The oldest is probably about 17, his brother a year or so younger. They both have short, spiked up blonde hair and blue eyes; I've seen the older one wearing glasses on and off for the last six months (black, semi-rimless: nothing special), although recently they seem to have been more on than off. Anyway, at the train station they were looking at the departure board. No surprises that the older boy was wearing his glasses, the younger one was squinting at the board. They had a brief conversation after which the older lad passed his glasses to his brother. When he had finished looking at the information he gave the glasses back. Clearly, the younger boy couldn't see well enough with out glasses, but I wonder if part of the problem was that the older one couldn't see well enough with his and needs stronger lenses . I'll keep an eye out as I don't think it will be too long before the younger one starts wearing glasses.

antonio 04 Aug 2009, 06:52

Hi swax, you mentioned you were bare-eyed, what would you wear normally as glasses to see ? are you nearsighted ? how much ?

best regards antonio

Trent 03 Aug 2009, 08:57

Martyn,

Yes I agree with you. The fantasy ends when it gets personal or the affected person faces vision loss. Ask yourself this question, would you wish that your son or daughter would have to wear glasses? I think that most of us here would answer no.

Martyn 02 Aug 2009, 23:50

I saw a lady waiting at bus stop with the thickest lens i have ever seen, the must have been about an inch thick, very thin gold metal frame round in shape, you could not make out her eyes because of the high density of power rings, even with her glasses on she seemed have difficulty reading the bus numbers, she asked to tell her when the no 39 came along, her RX must have been in - high 20is. I love ladies wearing strong glasses plus or minus, but for some reason i really did feel a sense of guilt

because this ladies vision was a definately an handicap. what do you think.

Visitboy 01 Aug 2009, 07:41

Does anyone else experience the moment of connection when your eyes meet a beautiful guy with glasses? Out shopping this afternoon, I couldn't help buy glance and a gorgeous guy in hiw twenties, waiting outside a shop with anoter man and woman. And his response was the kind of look back that showed, discreetly, that he knew he'd been noticed - Much like meeting an old friend in the street.

He'd got short, neat hair, and lovely rectangular metal frames carrying low minus lenses. Quite the most attractive object of my attentions on that trip.

daffy 01 Aug 2009, 05:28

I had a field day a few weeks ago. I registered online to an optical trade show. They mailed me a pass. I only managed to get it because a company i work for has the name optical even though we have nothing to do with the optometry scene (more physics).

Needless to say, I went along. It was so interesting. Meeting people, suppliers of all things from eyeglass screws to edging machines. Almost all girls i saw were wearing glasses. And I can walk up to anyine and openly talk to them about glasses, lenses, etc.

I got so much info and contacts that i started wondering about buisness opportunities. And I am now persuing it.

Wish me luck.

swax 30 Jul 2009, 08:45

I was at bank today, waiting for my turn. A man, about 50 I'd say, sat down to do some operations, laid a few papers on the desk and put on a pair of sunglasses before filling the forms. I guess they were prescription sunglasses, since there was not a lot of light in there.

The bank employee had a pair of glasses on her desk, but I couldn't look at the lenses since I was bare eyed.

Cactus Jack 30 Jul 2009, 06:23

Danbert,

Yes, this should probably be on the Lenses thread.

Fashion and Vanity trump everything else when it comes to glasses. Optical or visual quality have little to do with the selection of lenses. You could almost call it the "Quest for Thinness".

People are willing to pay substantially more for high index, thin lenses, progressive bifocals, and high fashion frames, even if they sacrifice visual acuity and increase distortion. Guess what the retailers like to sell. I'll bet optical quality never came up in the discussion, they are not stupid. Any concerns about reflections from flat front lenses are easily handled by a very high efficiency (expensive) anti-reflective coating.

C.

C.

Darrill 30 Jul 2009, 04:50

London Heathrow T5 lounge Monday evening. An American girl and her mother waiting for their plane, the daughter in her early twenties, very pretty tanned face, gorgeous shoulder-length darkbrown hair.

She really drew my attention when she came back from a short visit to the restrooms and was now wearing slender oval black pastic framed glasses. She moved them on the top of her head when surfing the internet on the lounge PCs, but put them on (and squinted) whenever checking the satus of her flight on the monitors, or to make sure her mom was still sitting in her sofa. I walked behind her a few times as to peek through her glasses, I'd say she was about -4.

Millhouse  30 Jul 2009, 01:05

At my local Tesco supermarket yesterday.

At the checkout next to mine-

Slim attractive lady about 35yo.

Dark brown hair,about 5'7 or so.

She was wearing some wide-side arms with a red tint to them,rx about +2/+3.

The side of the frames ,on the arms, had little patterns cut out like butterflies or something- perhaps little birds.

Quite unusual I thought.

Danbert 29 Jul 2009, 06:03

Cactus Jack: This probably belongs in the Lenses thread, but just to clarify - the higher the Rx, the lower the front base curve is generally made in order to keep lens thickness down despite inferior optical quality?

Is the amount typically used universal (except upon special request) or can different opticians arbitrarily decide what the base curve should be?

Some people here seem to prefer the appearance of flat lenses. I am undecided as I am unsure if it is the thickness, flatness or simply the minification that makes them look a bit different.

gwgs 29 Jul 2009, 00:45

Kate Silverton has been commented on quite a bit on this site, she used to work on Channel 5 then made the switch to the BBC and seems to have a collection of frames all in the hexi/wide arm style and sports a plus prescription.

No one has quite guessed her prescription - there is a current conversation about it on another thread but we believe she is between +2 to +3.5

I also noticed the traffic girl on BBC News was wearing glasses this morning, she looked a full time wearer.

recent UK traveller 28 Jul 2009, 19:19

For those of you in the UK, or travel there often, I noticed on a recent trip that London City Airport LCY is quite rich with GWG employees. Nearly all the duty free shop saleswomen were GWGs, both plus and minus, and some airline staff as well. So next time, avoid Heathrow and try LCY instead. (By the way it's a really pleasant and easy-to-use airport as well.)

Also, since I happened to watch BBC Breakfast, can someone comment on host Kate Silverton's Rx (plus, minus, cylinder)? The very idea of a female morning show host wearing specs fulltime could simply never happen in America...even Katie Couric faced resistance from her producers for wearing readers on camera...

Cactus jack 28 Jul 2009, 17:35

Nova man,

The glasses Rx is determined by the difference between the curvature of the front surface of the lens and the back surface and the index of the lens material. The front curve is called the Base Curve of the lens. A plus curved front surface is considered to provide the best optics and are usually more attractive because the reflections from the front of the lens look small. The disadvantage of a plus Base Curve is that it makes the edges of a minus lens thicker.

-7 is pretty close to those Rx with a very low front base curve, but ask for the front surface to be slightly curved if possible.

C.

Nova man 28 Jul 2009, 11:50

No lasic I asked here pleas tell me more about hte lenses that wont have flat fronts what should she ask for?

myopeinhere 28 Jul 2009, 07:30

she was glasses free for a few years,then -1.25,now six months later -2.5,she's not to happy but as she says better than the coke bottles she used to wear,if only she knew....lol

Clare 28 Jul 2009, 06:35

Myopeinhere - is your neighbour already back to full time wear? A friend has a friend who had lasik and she is. And not very happy about it apparently. No surprise there.

myopeinhere 28 Jul 2009, 03:04

Sounds like a Lasik victim,our neighbour who was -10 had it about 6 years ago,now back in -2's,at -7 there will be no problem having hi-index lenses for your wife,no flat fronts

Nova man 27 Jul 2009, 20:10

I dont know if this is the right thread of I should put this in sightings. I saw a friend of mine the other day and she has worn glasses for a long time. I notice she had gotten some new frames. I didnt have time to chat with her but what I noticed right off was , I remember her old pair and her lenses somewhat thick with the right being worse than the left and the lenses were almost flat on the front, well this pair was really thin and the lenses were not flat, curved like a low rx?? any Ideas. why is it the lenses are flat anyhow, My wife needs a new rx she is a minus 7 and her lenses are flat is there any type of lense she can get that wont be flat on the fronts

Trent 25 Jul 2009, 09:17

I have seen this girl now for a second time. Asian, ~30 yrs, square thin black plastic frames. Obvious edge thickness despite hi-index lenses maybe -15D.

I can't wait until the next time she walks past by my bus stop on the way to work!

Traveller 25 Jul 2009, 05:09

Frankfurt airport yesterday afternoon: absolutely stunning blonde with the latest double arm semi-rimless style and lenses at least 10-12mm thick. Looked to be about -6 - -8.

Hotel at breakfast. Tall blonde with very delicate rimless frames with light metal arms, about -4.

Bookshop this morning: Brunette with similar style and plus lenses about +2. Cusomer in bookshop, rimless frames with translucent green arms - also about +2.

I love travelling. Frames and wearers generally so much more attractive than in the UK.

Aubrac 21 Jul 2009, 01:01

The lovely Kate Silverton was looking even more beautiful on the BBC1 Breakfast news this morning.

She was wearing a black dress and I think new black (or very dark) semi-rimless glasses. Her hairstyle has also changed slightly and you could see through the right lens when she turned her head to the right.

Her glasses looked stronger than usual, maybe a new scrip with about +2.5 to +3.5 with some cylinder, but very difficult to estimate accurately.

All in all, a very nice start to the morning!

Melyssa 19 Jul 2009, 07:59

A few sightings in the past 3 days: (1) A young woman near my worksite wearing bright red, wide-side frames, but semi-rimless in front -- I always think that the lenses will fall out of the frame straight down. LOL (B) Another young woman working at the pharmacy, wearing normal-sided plastic frames, with a black stripe and a white stripe, but rimless in front with 2 connections on each side to her rather thick rectangular lenses. (Third) An older woman wearing rather huge red drop-temple sunglasses. (Now if only they would come in regular frames.)

Millhouse 18 Jul 2009, 08:12

We had a lady call in at our office during the week, she sells cheap books to our staff, you place your order and she comes back the next week with more books plus the order you placed....

Anyway, she was about 30-35 yo, dark short hair, lovely looking, softly spoken about 5'7 tall with dark brown eyes.Specs were a semi-rectangular plastic type (though not too heavy looking) in dark blue,prob about a -3 or -4 I'd guess. Suited her very well too!

I tried to get a bit of chat going on but she seemed a bit shy and quiet. Not that I was being to flirty or anything- just a quick "Hi- how you doing?"

I'm determined net time she calls to say hello again and ask her where she got her glasses- if she asks why I want to know I'll say;

"cus they look so good on you and I need some new ones myself soon"

(which to be honest I do)

I'll post again either If I get shot down in flames or a decent conversation.

SZ6 17 Jul 2009, 07:14

The occasional fatty burger won't kill you, as long as it doesn't turn into a habit. Just like the occasional cigarette or occasional joint won't kill you. Habits and lifestyles are dangerous, not individual food items...

All things in moderation, I always say. Except for pretty women with high minus glasses.

stephan 16 Jul 2009, 09:42

not the kind of thread i normally post to...

by the way - I am pysical fitness trainer and that' my opinion :

Burger is quite a lot low fat beef, salad, tomato, onions, pickles mustard, ketchup, burger bread (okay a bit of mayo, white bread not cereal..) but much better than most people guess. Not the burger makes people grow fat and lazy - it's the way of life... being lazy, eating because of being bored, burger + french fries + burger + french fries + full sugar soft drink + milkshake + being bored + hanging around in front of TV + next soft drink.

No one who's active will get fat because of a fast food burger a day...

I promise ;-)

still 16 Jul 2009, 09:11

I have to disagree. Big Macs are very tasty, except for the shredded lettuce, which I could do without. I want to live long, too, but I hope the occasional fat sandwich won't kill me! And you don't need to take off your glasses to eat them!

ehpc 13 Jul 2009, 15:10

No-one in their right minds would eat a BigMac in my view. I have just clocked up my 55th birthday and I firmly intend being around for a very long time yet....................:)

ehpc 13 Jul 2009, 14:58

Too right. No junk food here. It is quite beyond me how anyone could eat a Big Mac.

Jennifer 13 Jul 2009, 14:30

Of course not, pete. Mickey D's is not healthy enough for you.......

ehpc 13 Jul 2009, 14:24

Not a user of McD myself

ehpc 13 Jul 2009, 14:23

Just to confirm...............'Pete' is not ehpc Pete

And 13 Jul 2009, 07:51

lol, Rachel, don't forget -3 is a long way from your rx. She probably didn't feel too vunerable sat with her friends. I can understand why you wouldn't share your glasses.

Rachel 13 Jul 2009, 02:42

Pete. The third girl obviously didn't need glasses at all LOL. It was nice the second girl kept them on for a while though. If the glasses were around -3.00 dioptres, her distance vision must be pretty bad without glasses now. What on earth did the first girl do all this time, without her glasses on? I would have thought she would have been peppering to get them back and wear them. LOL. I know i would.

Rachel 13 Jul 2009, 02:35

I saw a girl on Saturday in one of our local stores with blonde hair wearing some really attractive plus glasses. I felt quite jealous because her eyes looked really nice and dreamy in them. She had some really nice trendy new plastic frames in white and blue. I think blue really goes with blonde hair. My eyes looks so small now I sometime wish I was plus instead of minus.

Pete 12 Jul 2009, 09:55

Very good sighting yesterday at Mc Donalds: Three stylish young woman in age of 20-22 come in, one with glasses, minus arround 3 diopters. One other looked with sqinting to the menue on top of the counter but couldn`t see. So the gwg handed her the glasses and the first could read and they ordered. The first don´t give the glasses back the next five minutes but kooked arround and told the others how good her eyesight were with this glasses.

Later on the table the third girl tried the glasses on too, but only for a few seconds.

Astra 11 Jul 2009, 11:06

Gino, I think Lynn saying hers is -6 seems reasonable. Note the very significant minification over the glasses case... seems much more than my -2.5.

How about the ones of Alexia? It seems around -1 (or weaker?) for me.

ehpc 10 Jul 2009, 15:56

Katy - I don't really believe that :) But I know what you are getting at. Men can very easily think that about women too, I can assure you :) I think it is quite extraordinary that men and women have been on this planet together for however many millions of years, and yet we are still no closer to understanding each other - if anything we are drifting further apart. One might have thought that Evolution might have depositied a gene somewhere or other that might help us along a bit! Pete

Katy 10 Jul 2009, 15:07

Pete - I'm sure he's fine, I haven't been back in there. I may pop in sometime soon... he's very nice to look at but I'm not going to try & start anything with him! I've had enough of men anyway, more hassle than they're worth ;-)

ehpc 10 Jul 2009, 14:59

Katy - how is the charity shop guy? You HAVE pushed things forward....................???? :) Pete

OOps I did it again 10 Jul 2009, 14:48

"I had finished cleansing her lenses in the meantime" (SPLURGH!!!)

oops, sorry ma'am...

Cactus Jack 08 Jul 2009, 14:55

Gino,

They are probably high index lenses which makes them very thin. Power rings at the edges of the lenses are caused by internal reflections and the width of each ring is more related to the thickness of the edges than the power of the lens. The number of the rings has a loose relationship to the power. Maybe she is the girl of your dreams. Don't let this one get away.

C.

Gino 08 Jul 2009, 13:32

Well guys, this morning Lynn came with me to the department store and while strolling down the aisles she complained about her lenses being filthy. I didn't hesitate and offered to clean them, and she happily accepted! I was of course somewhat surprised, and pretty excited she did, and while cleansing her lenses I asked a bit inadvertently "are those strong or not?". She said yes, that she couldn't do much without them, and if I didn't give them back she'd probably not find the way out of the store herself. I asked "so they are minus 2 or 3?". And she exclaimed "oh no, these are minus 6 in both eyes, and I probably need more as I start having some trouble reading roadsigns from a large distance". I had finished cleansing her lenses in the meantime, and I had the courage to fold them open and gently slipped them back on her nose! She said nobody had ever done this for her before. No need to tell you I really star to like her...

gwgs 08 Jul 2009, 09:09

It is a bonus, even more spotted the last couple of days. A couple of women wearing strong plussies with split arms, and cords attached to the spex. Another bonus!

I haven't seen the dt's in the drugstores but will keep a lookout, I'm tempted to buy a pair of the split arms to remind me of the holiday but I already own three (different) pairs of them.

I'd love to grab some photos but it would be almost impossible. If the oppportunity arises I shall grab it and publish them when I'm back in London

Stefan 07 Jul 2009, 15:43

Gino - around -3 I'd say.

Stefan 07 Jul 2009, 15:43

Slit 07 Jul 2009, 02:49

At a local shopping mall today in Sri Lanka...

came across a girl of abt 20 y.o. with substantial plus glasses and a different kind of bifocals - the upper segment having about 1/4 of the lense while the lower (add) segment accounting the remainder of the lens.

I guess this has been made upon a special request of hers in order to allow more close and mid distance work and giving less attantion on far.

However she seems to tilt her head way back to see far away things also through the lower portion, hinting a need of increased rx for distance!

Rx guess: +2 with +1.5 add

Aubrac 07 Jul 2009, 00:28

Gino

I think they are about -4, the right lens appears about -1 stronger than the left. This would also account for things looking much smaller. A -1 lens would not have such a marked effect.

gwgs

An added holiday bonus! I was at the the UK seaside this weekend and also noticed many girls wearing plus lens, most of them with reactolite lenses. There was one especially lovely lady wearing transluscent purple frames with bifocals, but so many plusses it was difficult to know where to look.

Cactus Jack 06 Jul 2009, 16:34

Gino,

The more I look at the pictures, I they are less than -2, maybe closer to -1.

If you really want to get a better idea of her Rx, you can do that next time she takes a nap if you have some known plus glasses such as +3 readers.

Do you wear glasses?

C.

Cactus Jack 06 Jul 2009, 16:07

Gino,

Side and or angular views are not very helpful except that they accent the power rings, which are internal reflections inside the lenses. I would guess something around -2.

C.

Gino 06 Jul 2009, 15:14

I managed to take away Lynn's glasses this afternoon while she was taking a nap. As said before, she is a good friend of my girlfriend, and a full-time glasses wearer. She looks incredibly sexy in her pink-and-lilac specs. Her prescription is strong, but I daren't ask her how much... What's your idea judging from the pics?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15674637@N08/sets/72157621054834172/

Slit 06 Jul 2009, 06:53

This is fabulous news GWGs!!!

Is there any changce to get hold of some pics? Probably in the local press or television there could be a girls appearing with those glasses on...

And if you can pls upload some pix of the drop temple glasses at the drug stores, with or without wearer.

Thanks!

gwgs 05 Jul 2009, 08:35

Im on holiday in Cannes, France at the moment and am really suprised at the number of plussies about! Back in London all you ever see is myopes but here in sunny Cannes everyone is into the split arm plussie glasses, I must have seen about 20-25 women wearing these - bliss!

Ive also seen 4 women now wearing drop temples with elaborate gold arms with the lenses either rimless or with gold surrounds, three of these girls have been under 30! I hope this fashion transfers to London as I love these retro frames and am also a big fan of split arm frames.

Im wondering whether the trend for the split arm frames is down to most pharmacys having a decent selection of glasses up to +3.5 which are available to for 10-12 euros, at this price, who can resist these beauties!

Im looking forward to the rest of my hols and will report on any other sightings!

Rachel 04 Jul 2009, 22:50

Katy. I take it you really like guys with strong minus glasses then. Mm I must admit, I'm attracted to them as well. Wow but -10, I don't often see any with such a high rx.

ehpc 04 Jul 2009, 13:52

Katy - No it wouldn't !!!! TRAIN youself! You mean because you really fancy him? He is BOUND to be delighted!!!! Anyway, just do what it takes. Even if it means playing the helpless female for a while and asking his assistance on something. I know perfectly well you could do it. I want to hear developments :) Pete

Katy 04 Jul 2009, 12:04

Pete - I'm usually quite good at flirting, but with a guy like that, I have trouble just speaking to him without making a complete fool of myself. Mentioning his glasses would be impossible! :-)

ehpc 04 Jul 2009, 10:18

Compliment him on his glasses, Katy! See how he reacts.Do the girlie flirtation thing with it:) Go, on - go for it! See what happens.And tell us all about it ! Go on, do it!!! Tart yourself up bigtime and go in looking stunning :) We chaps do this kind of thing all the time - well, except the female flirtation bit that is :) Pete

Katy 04 Jul 2009, 08:57

In a local charity shop today, there was a guy working there with impressively strong glasses in quite big tortoiseshell plastic frames. They were about -9 or 10 - I spotted them as I walked in the door, which was at least 10m away from the counter! Tall and good looking with surfer type floppy blond hair. I got a closer look when I went to pay for something. Mmmm. I'll be shopping there again!

Peter 03 Jul 2009, 10:13

London underground Bakerloo line this early afternoon. A slender Asian girl in her early 30ies (I guess) boarding the Tube and sitting next to me, slim figure, beautiful thick long black hair like only Asians can have, and the nicest specs I've ever seen.

Very stylish rectangular thin metal frames, purple temples, red fronts, and amazingly spotless and shiny lenses. She had a very strong prescription, but the lenses were still of an acceptable thickness (1/4inch). She took her glasses off for a while, cleaning the (already spotless) lenses and then spent about 5min adjusting them on her nose, takimg them off again, looking through the lenses from various angles while holding the glasses about 1 foot in front of her.

I was lucky that she also got off the tube at Piccadilly, I followed her and stood right behind her on the escalators. It took all my courage but I said "excuse me?", she turned her head and she looked at me and then I said "you have very nice glasses". She seemed surprised and didn't really know how to react, so I did not insist any further. Hope she might think back of this moment and still enjoy it afterwards?

ehpc 03 Jul 2009, 08:53

Stick with big black rectangular plastic frames with wide sides Rachel :)

Rachel 03 Jul 2009, 07:44

Clare, especially smallish oval like you said. I used to love those till my lenses got too thick to have them.

Rachel 03 Jul 2009, 07:43

Clare. Yeah, I think they do look nice in metal frames. That's what I'd go for I think if had to have them.

Clare 03 Jul 2009, 07:16

Rachel - They were just a simple metal frame, ovalish and not large. Admittedly I didn't see them from the side - she was facing me - but they looked fine on her.

Rachel 03 Jul 2009, 07:06

Clare. What type of frames was she wearing with them? Metal or plastic. I think from what I've seen, maybe myodiscs need certain sorts of frames to look attractive.

Clare 03 Jul 2009, 05:17

I spotted a slim, elegant black girl who looked great in jeans (due to her extremely long legs - very jealous of that)yesterday on the London Underground.I noticed she was wearing myodiscs, I'd never seen them before and though I knew what they were from the descriptions I'd read on Eyescene, I doubt if anyone uninitated would have thought they were as strong as I know them to be. The guys here would have loved it I'm sure!

Gino 02 Jul 2009, 14:54

My girlfriend invited 2 of her best friends to stay at our place for about a week; we're going to a rock festival all together. Both are full time glasses wearers, though Alexia's glasses can almost always be found on top of her head and not on her nose :)

I don't know what her prescriscription is, but it must be very weak. Her glasses are sexy anyway, so I don't reallty mind... Last night she left her glasses on our kitchen table, and I took some pics (see link). I'll try to do the same with Lynn's glasses, but she is almost never without her glasses; and she must have taken her with her lastnight. Her glasses are pretty strong, as when my girlfriend and Alexia tried them on, they could barely see anything.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15674637@N08/3682081537/

Amazing Sight 27 Jun 2009, 06:13

This week i had 5 amazing sightings all high myopes:

*girl at supermarket checkout with above -10 squints as costumers points to a sign.

*I was at the optician to pick up my prescription sunglasses and then a girl walks in to pick up her special order contacts i managed to get her prescription -16

*At the hardware store on Friday to sisters one very cute the other a little chubby but cute both with above -10.

*Again at the hardware store a lady mid 40s with sunglasses after a hard look they seemed very high minus.

A great week indeed.

John S 26 Jun 2009, 12:05

I don't know where she lives now, but she grew up close to me.

kisal 26 Jun 2009, 07:29

Saw one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen coaching little kids at a swim meet this past week. She has a perfect athlete's body, long blond hair, an absolutely stunning brown-framed specs. I managed to find her name and googled her to this link: http://www.davidsonwildcats.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=773

which confirms to my happiness and amazement that she is a full-time wearer. She is prettier than this picture!

Aubrac 22 Jun 2009, 09:32

Phil

I don't really know what this sort of prism looks like, but I'll have a look at the Perret website to see if there are any pictures.

Phil 22 Jun 2009, 08:30

If one can get over the pain and dribbling it can be an erotic experience as one's head is inevitably placed against the torturer's bosom. So when the torturer is a gwg it's actually rather nice!

Galileo 22 Jun 2009, 08:15

Phil - you have reminded me of an experience from the 1980s when I arrived at the dentist to be greeted by an absolutely gorgeous, slim blonde wearing a white jumpsuit and bright red heart shaped glasses with a prescription around -5. I don't think I even blinked during the time she was cleaning my teeth.

Phil 22 Jun 2009, 08:14

Thanks for that Aubrac: that's fascinating. I might pluck up courage to ask her next time! How does a prism lense look in the frame?

Aubrac 22 Jun 2009, 05:58

Phil

She may have a normal prescription but prism glasses are available especially made for dentists and hygienists.

They look like regular glasses but have prism lenses so the user does not have to angle constantly their neck so much to look in the patients mouth.

I read about them on the Perrets Opticians website.

Phil 22 Jun 2009, 05:47

I visited the dental hygienist this morning. It's not usually my favourite experience. But today it was rather more pleasant than I had anticipated. She was an attractive 40something blonde with a ponytail and black specs. I normally keep my eyes closed as the pain is inflicted but today I stared into her eyes. I found her lenses rather intriguing. I initialy thought she was hyperopic but the lesnses were thicker at the bottom edges; and when I looked through them the lights above were distorted. I have booked her again!

Galileo 14 Jun 2009, 04:25

I went into a pharmacy I occasionally visit where one assistant has a high minus Rx. On previous occasions she has worn oval metal frames with ordinary lenes, though they were probably high index. Today I was delighted to find her wearing a pair of brown rectangular frames with an orange inlay round the lens which really draws your attention to her eyes. And they were myodisc lenses with + carrier. Maybe 30mm bowls and the bowl touching the top and bottom of the frame. Now you only get any sense of power rings if she turns her head to oneside, but the cut in is amazing looking straight into her face. Wow!

gwgs 14 Jun 2009, 00:53

Very interesting sighting yesterday.

I was in the pet shop and admired the assistant I had seen before who wear round red plastic frames with a plus prescription. She is probably in her mid twenties and has a slightly bronzed complexion to her skin.

Anyway, I had thought on entering how refreshing it was that she was wearing these frames and not the usual plastic thick arm frames and then I overheard her female colleague asking about her glasses. She said "so how long have you had these glasses, I really like them" she replied "they fairly new".

"How much were they?"

"They were very expensive - £400, and they probably need changing soon as my prescription is always changing"

"Have you tried contacts"

"I haven't but will probably get some and if I like them then I will go to the optician and give them my frames so they can put my new prescription in, but this is another £400"

At this point I approached the counter with my purchase and wanted to suggest to her buying her glasses online as it would be so much cheaper but one of her male colleagues was also now behind the desk who wasn't party to the conversation and didn't want to seem as if I was interfering.

Do you think I should have said something as this girl clearly likes wearing her glasses but £400 does seem like a lot for what wasn't an considerable prescription - probably no higher than +3/+4 and may go down the contacts route is she constantly has to pay this amount everytime her prescription changes

ehpc 11 Jun 2009, 10:59

:) Pete

Rachel 11 Jun 2009, 10:55

Clare,

Really, well who isn't?

ehpc 11 Jun 2009, 10:17

Clare always likes men YOUNGER than herself :) Pete

Clare 11 Jun 2009, 09:45

Rachel - no I don't generally, but I'm likely to be distracted by an attractive guy with nice glasses wherever he is!

Rachel 11 Jun 2009, 03:31

Lentifan.

I agree, plus lenses can look pretty special. This girl you know may have just decided to go for a change of frames, although I think that is unlikely. When you get new frames, it usually means you need stronger lenses. Black metaloval frames do look really nice with plus lenses, especially strong ones, and I can understand you prefering this girl in them. Why don't you tell her? I bet she would feel really flattered if you did.

Rachel 11 Jun 2009, 03:23

Clare.

Probably not I reckon. However I suppose people who wear low minus glasses do realise that there are other people who need much higher prescriptions. They must come across them at their opticians for a start. I always take notice of other patients when I go for my check ups and look to see what strength of lenses they are wearing. Don't you Clare?

Lentifan 10 Jun 2009, 15:48

There's a lovely girl works in my local corner shop. She's bright,and always has a cheery word or two for the customers, and gives the impression of really enjoying her work, unlike the other rather sour assistants who have worked there for years. She wears beautiful plus-lensed glasses. I find it more difficult to estimate the strength of plus lenses than minus but I'd put them well into double figures, but they don't appear to be lenticulars.

Up to now she has worn black metal frames in the shape of ovals, flattened at the top, quite small lenses, eyes almost invisible. She has got now got new glasses - brown plastic frames. Despite the bigger lens size, they don't look any stronger and I think I preferred the old ones, but she's still lovely.

Who needs supermarkets?

Clare 10 Jun 2009, 11:59

I had a great meeting with a potential client today - attractive 30-something guy, dark, spikey-ish hair with low minus -1ish glasses, no discernable astigmatism. It made me wonder - do these folks with their very low prescriptions realise that some people can tell they're not so strong? And if someone tried their glasses, would they realise that they wouldn't seem that strong to someone who's -3 or more?

Maybe they need to drop by Eyescene!

Rachel 10 Jun 2009, 01:00

Aubrac. Well my parents don't need glasses either. Only me! But my mother's younger sister is very myopic like me, so my mother says I get it from her. Neither of my grandparents were really I don't think. Grannie is still living and only wears glasses for reading. I guess I'm just lucky I take after my aunt adn need really strong glasses now, that's all.

Aubrac 10 Jun 2009, 00:53

Rachel

All three of my kids have perfect eyesight, my son especially at 21 has 20/10 sight with amazing acuity. My ex only wears readers although her parents both wore glasses, one was about -2.00 and the other about -4.00 with a lot of cylinder. Both my parents only wore readers.

Can't really figure out the heredity angle of it.

Rachel 09 Jun 2009, 06:12

Aubrac. Does your daughter wear glasses by any chance?

Aubrac 08 Jun 2009, 07:14

Puffin

Just hope that horses aren't shortsighted too!

Puffin 08 Jun 2009, 06:37

Maybe you leave to the horse to look out which way you're going? Can't do that with a car.

Rachel 08 Jun 2009, 02:35

Aubrac. Wow. I can't imagine riding a horse without glasses if you've reached -4.00. Maybe you could manage if you are only -2.00 though. But if you are +4.00 I reckon thats pretty risky. My best friend is +6.00 now and she really does need her glasses for absolutely everything. I mean imagine getting down off a horse with no glasses on. I wouldn't even be able to see the ground. lol.

Aubrac 08 Jun 2009, 01:33

Took my daughter for her riding lesson yesterday and there were three new bare eyed ladies in the class.

Came back to collect her and saw them driving off separately in their cars, one had about -2.00, another about -4.00, and the third about +4.00 glasses on.

Lucky you don't have to pass an eye test to ride a horse! But think it a bit dodgy to wallop around on a horse without -4.00 correction.

hooked 05 Jun 2009, 00:01

My wife could see perfectly those days but as I wrote due to the constant effort to focus headaches appeared rather sooner than later.

My wife is a full time wearer (since the age of 1.5 as she told me).

Today she get her first bifocals (add +1.25).

Aubrac 04 Jun 2009, 08:38

Hooked

Interesting your wife has dropped +1.00 in twenty years, and difficult to imagine she could see perfectly with +6.00!

I should imagine your wife is a FT wearer, as she has trouble with close and distance wear. How many lines on a Snellen chart can she read?

My wife is same age and wears +1.75, says she is ok for driving but a bit scary being in the passenger when I realise what she can't read.

I think I have tried the Austrian site and it does seem quite accurate, there is an American site that simulates results on a Snellen chart but this one seems far too blurred ar lower prescriptions.

Puffin 04 Jun 2009, 01:47

I think when you want to estimate this, estimate how much accomodation you think the person has due to age (older = less) and then take that from the prescription, it'll be something like that.

hooked 04 Jun 2009, 00:28

@Aubrac

How much can plus wearers see?

I can't speak of myself but can give you info from my wife.

When she was around 20, she had +6 and could see far away and near without glasses but got headaches latest after one hour.

Now, she is 40 and +5 and she can't see near and far without glasses. This is age dependent.

And if you go to that to eye simulating page on a austrian page where you can enter diopters and age the effect is the same.

Aubrac 03 Jun 2009, 08:27

Was in my local pub/restaurant the other night and eating at an adjacent table were grandparents (60's something) mum (35ish) and two grandchildren.

Grandad was wearing about +2.00 with a chain round his neck, kept them on for eating, took them off, then put them on again. Grandma had about +4.00 and had her glasses on all the time, mum was attractive and had +3/+4 glasses pushed up on her head.

Was reading the paper but caught the tail end of a sentance when mum said she had not been able to see something, son aged about 8 immediately piped up 'you should wear your glasses properly mummy, you know you can't see without them', and then tried to pull her glasses down over her eyes. This however was resisted by mum and glasses stayed pushed up.

Always much debate on how clearly plus wearers see, but would really like to know just how much better she could see with her glasses.

Mark 22 May 2009, 07:02

Was out shopping today for a few things when i saw a middle aged lady walking towards me with very strong myodisc lenses, must have been at least in the high -20's.

That's the second person ive seen in my area with them, the first was a guy, maybe last 20's early 30's, the most obvious difference with his were the bowls were tiny, leading me to believe they were either in the high -30s? or maybe lower index materials.

If i wasnt in a hurry i probably would have gone around for another look.

Clare 18 May 2009, 14:01

No worries Like Lenses, I know that wouldn't happen, he's not that bothered by glasses!

Like Lenses 18 May 2009, 12:22

Clare

Suggesting that he try contacts may very likely create one less MIG. Would you want that on your conscience?

Clare 18 May 2009, 12:11

Aubrac - not sure I'm up for that! It's so rare people see me with specs that they'd probably fall over, and I hate those "oh my, you're wearing glasses ..." conversations!

Suggesting he tries contacts is just so much easier ;)

Aubrac 18 May 2009, 08:11

Clare

Good idea if you're up for it, wear your glasses and say the contacts were giving you a problem - a conversation must start up!!

Aubrac 18 May 2009, 08:08

Was at the always busy Gatwick Airport this morning and standing behind me in the queue for security checking was a late-teens girl, travelling alone, who seemed rather nervous and flustered. She was wearing metal framed glasses with a scrip of around –5/-6.

The security lady asked her to put her things in a tray for x-ray scanning, then asked her to take her boots and belt off, then asked her to remove her rather large metal hoop earrings. The poor girl was getting more flustered and then suddenly took off her glasses and put them in the tray, obviously thinking that as they were metal she shouldn’t wear them through the metal detector gate.

After passing through, and the usual log-jam of trays containing belongings the other side of the scanner, she peered and squinted very hard to try and find her tray, after rooting through a few wrong trays, she eventually found her glasses and seemed very relieved to put them back on.

Clare 17 May 2009, 22:55

Like Lenses - yes that would certainly get us talking! Actually he's seen me wear glasses but so long ago he, and his wife whose been a friend for 20 years, have both probably forgotten. You've got me thinking though, I could introduce a contact lenses conversation quite easily.

Like Lenses 17 May 2009, 13:23

Clare'

If he has never seen you in glasses, try showing up with them on next time you are with them. That should stimulate some glasses conversation.

Clare 15 May 2009, 12:08

Great suggestion Aubrac. I'm not great at glasses talk but will give it a go!

Aubrac 15 May 2009, 04:25

Clare

How about casually mentioning to him that you like semi-rimless frames and are thinking about getting a pair yourself.

This should open up the conversation for talking about where he got them, how much, why he likes the style, are they better than full frame, what sort of lenses are they, etc. You can then also talk about your prescription.

Take it from there..............

Clare 14 May 2009, 11:44

Loving that my friend's rather attractive husband now appears to be a 100% fulltime wearer. I'd mentioned before that at -1.75 he wore pretty much full time for distance but, until recently, he didn't appear to wear them in the house. On the last couple of occasions I've visited he's been wearing them, even on the computer. The prescription doesn't look strong so I guess he's just decided it's time. He's sporting a nice pair of semi-rimless which suit him alot. I think people so rarely see me with glasses they forget I might *sometimes* wear them. How can I get him talking about his glasses? I'd love to know what his motivations are ;)

Stingray 14 May 2009, 11:18

Filthy: As a retired cop...they are all guilty, even when found innocent!

Fry 'em!

Tanya 14 May 2009, 11:16

Jennifer'

It appears that 'Phil' enjoys making sweeping generalisations- with no evidence whatsoever to back it up. Apart from the few individuals he is undoubtedly using as his evidence. Let's hope his "gorgeous" girlfriend doesn't read his opinions on here. ;)

Jennifer 14 May 2009, 09:06

Phil:

You Should reevaluate your statement, "There are bright ones but many pretty dumb types sport plus lenses." Your wording is very harsh. I don't believe this to be true, but if you have stats that back your statement, then please share with us.

Filthy McNasty 14 May 2009, 07:50

Stingray: I guess you're not an 'innocent until proven guilty' kind of guy, then ;-)

Liam 14 May 2009, 05:10

Nearsighted lover, my girlfriend is now -6.00 in both eyes. She just thinks contacts are easier (sports, rainy days,...), it's not that she has an issue with being seen in glasses. She regularly comments to me about other women's glasses when she likes them, I think I might take her to the optician soon for some new frames also.

Stingray 14 May 2009, 04:44

Along those same lines, when a person is arrested for murder their picture appears in the newspaper and on television. They are not wearing glasses. Then when their trial begins, they appear in a suit and tie and are wearing glasses. I guess that would make them more serious and intelligent looking despite the fact that they are cold blooded killers.

Phil 14 May 2009, 04:30

I'm not sure it's ajust n impression. I'd hazard a guess that myopes are, on average, quite a bit brighter than "normal" people. Not so sure about hyperopes. There are bright ones but many pretty dumb types sport plus lenses.

Aubrac 14 May 2009, 03:51

Sort of a sighting in yesterdays Daily Mail.

Double page article on whether or not brainy women are more sexy.

To illustrate the fact of a 'brainy' women they had a picture of an attractive lady wearing, of course, a very nice pair of glasses.

It does seem to reinforce the notion, discussed on a thread some time ago, that glasses give the impression that the wearer is more intelligent/knowledgeable than non-glasses wearers.

Nearsighted lover 14 May 2009, 01:30

Liam, thanks for your nice history!

Which is the rx of your gf? Why she is so conscious about glasses?

Thanks a lot!

Liam 13 May 2009, 14:45

My girlfriend is a contacts addict, and only wears glasses early in the morning or late at night, when she can't keep her contacts in any longer. She hasn't had her glasses fitted with new lenses for 3 yrs now, which means they are now about 2 diopters too weak. She is now having serious trouble functioning in those glasses and recently complained about that fact. As I work very close to an optician, I offered to take her glasses with me this morning to have the lenses "upgraded", which she readily accepted.

The optician is a cute 30-something blonde, in nice black plastic cateyes. When handing over my girlfriend's glasses, she commented at how nice the frames were (they have lilac plastic fronts and slender salmon pink metal temples). I boldly suggested she try them on, which she did too my excitement. Her glasses went off and she carefully unfolded and put up my girlfriend's. She looked around, adjusted the glasses a bit, and pitied my girlfriend for her bad eyesight. When I mentioned she needed 2D extra fitted in, she exclaimed "poor girl" and switched back to her own glasses.

Brooklyn Boy 12 May 2009, 07:12

If anyone here lives in new jersey, I think you guys should go to woodbridge mall anything to a store named FYE. I was there yesterday and the cashier has this very interesting pair of glasses. His right eye prescription must have being around -15 or so and the left wasn't so high.. but his right lens on his eyeglasses were very thick. I was amazed and if I could I really wanted to try his glasses but that would be ackward...

Amazing GWG 10 May 2009, 07:58

On Friday a new colleague showed up wearing rimless glasses, she said are -7

she look very nice in them.

shortsight 08 May 2009, 14:01

Spent the week in Las Vegas, people I was traveling with wanted to see the Pirate show at Treasure Island. I have only seen this show a dozen times, so was not real enthused. We stood on the steps of the Venetian as it gives a good view with out being packed like sardines in front of the outside show. There was a group of three young Japanese ladies taking pictures of each other, one of which was a High Myop wearing a square lens and even though I’m sure they were as thin as can be made, offered significant thickness and cut in; maybe -10 or more. I offered to take a group picture for them. Later the High Myop approached me to ask for directions to the MGM, she moved in real close so as to read the map with me. This allowed me to look through the corner of her thick lens as well. After many thanks they were on there way. Put a smile on my face for the rest of the evening.

Amazing GWG 06 May 2009, 15:34

Yesterday I was at my sister’s place and her best friend walked in with amazingly strong glasses at least -10 Gucci glasses but maybe more. She just looked so hot makes me want to hangout more at my sister's place..

Lurker 02 May 2009, 13:46

Saw three girls at Walmart today shopping. None of the girls were wearing glasses, and they were looking through clothes. One of the three, a blonde had very sexy eyes, and she caught my attention. Unfortunately I was with others and we departed for other parts of the store. About 15 minutes later or so, I went down an aisle and saw the blonde girl by herself squinting very hard looking down aisles apparently trying to find the other two women she came with. Her squints were very hard and I was shocked at how bad her eyes must be. I wanted so much to say something, but with others, I could not. Maybe she lost her glasses, or just needs glasses, but I am very fond of squinting and found this to be a very stimulating event for me.

Mac 01 May 2009, 08:20

Katie,

My optician tells me that, here in the UK, myodisc (lenticular) lenses can be supplied from -6 upward,so you shouldn't have any problem at -9.

Dan 01 May 2009, 07:38

At a concert last night and during the intermission, a very attractive woman sitting next to me (age: 25-30) pulled out a crossword puzzle and drug store reading glasses! They really looked good...latent hyperope or earlier presbyope obviously. Very interesting sighting.

gwgs 25 Apr 2009, 02:08

Aubrac, correct it is, they are also selling some -8 myodiscs I think, they seem to be rather toppy with the price though!

Aubrac 24 Apr 2009, 03:40

Katie

Have you seen the -9.00 myodiscs on ebay, I think it is Stefan who is selling two pairs.

Phil 24 Apr 2009, 01:51

Lovely 40-something gwg on train this morning. I've seen her often but never with glasses until today. Significant plus (around 3) in nice black and white frames. She used them for reading her paper and using her Blackberry. Then she took them off and put them away before getting off train.

sum1wholovesgirlswithglasses 18 Apr 2009, 22:47

Phil i don't think its an age thing id say rather a preference i still have some time left until i hit the age of 30 back then as a teenager i always admired gwgs it really didn't matter to me whether she was long or short-sighted Megan you can count me as another plus lover as well ^^

Katie 18 Apr 2009, 15:25

I actually spotted a girl of about 18 wearing myodiscs today. I'm a -9 so not high enough to wear them yet, but i live in hope!

Puffin 18 Apr 2009, 13:19

Hello, out and about in town today, saw several girls wearing large frame glasses - sort of trapezoidal shapes, quite chunky plastic. Also a girl in a shop with metal frames and red plastic arms, about -4.

Martyn 18 Apr 2009, 06:22

Megan well you have another plus fan, I like both Plus and minus its the person behind the glasses that,s important.

Megan I,m surprised in this day and age children with poor sight are not picked up earlier, watch a child play, or watching telly, picking up a child,s poor vision before they start school should be a must in families, after all it could effect their schooling.

There is also a difference if a child is wearing glasses the day they start school the will be accepted with less cruel remarks.

If parents wear glasses it usually follows their off spring will wear glasses even especially if if one or other of the parents has a high RX be it plus or minus, I wish parents would realize the eyes are the window to life.

Megan 17 Apr 2009, 09:01

slit. Agree with you fully. But i think schools are more aware now of the problems with longsighted children, i noticed when picking up my friends little boy from school, quite a number of children in glasses and plus glasses at that. So things are changing, for the better we hope

Slit 17 Apr 2009, 08:26

Hi Megan,

well. it is so good to know there is a substantial plus girls population around.

most of the time its the minu girls who come out and speak. hope to see more postings and conversation, especially on the hyperopia & presbyopia progression thread.

we should have more discussion on the impact of wearing plus glasses on daily activities, how to detect hyperopia before it becomes a headache etc. so that more people will be educated and those who are in dark side will come to plus side.

KIT!

Slit, +1.25 OD & OS.

Vertcal 17 Apr 2009, 02:45

appreciate both so you pluses should not worry. The fact you are gwg turns the eye

Megan 17 Apr 2009, 01:44

Phil. Yes i am a plus girl, had to have glasses when i was a little girl after operation to stop my eyes turning in. My prescription now is R+8.00 L+7.25, i am nearly 20 and the prescription has been the same since i was 16

Phil 17 Apr 2009, 01:18

Hi Megan. So you are a plus gwg are you? What's your rx?

Aubrac 17 Apr 2009, 01:17

Phil

Being a myope myself, I have always liked minus glasses, and swapping them with other people to compare prescriptions.

However, when my wife got plus glasses I was immediately converted, and looking around hadn't noticed just how many plus wearers there are.

I think I like the unusual look of the lens seen from a side angle, and the magnification of the eyes. Also I find the cutout more attractive now than cutin. As a fast wrinkling person, maybe it is also something of an age thing.

Megan 16 Apr 2009, 23:14

Phil nice to hear, us plussies often get left out in the dark on lenschat, where most of the people are minus wearers. Thanks from a plus girl

MisterMild 16 Apr 2009, 19:15

Public hospitals usually don't offer much joy, but this morning was different. I watched attentively as a medical technician attended my father; a woman of Spanish origin, about 30, wearing a quite high minus within fashionable wide-armed, heavy black frames. The lenses were apparently high index, not thick, but the flashing plano fronts and power rings gave away the secret.

Phil 16 Apr 2009, 05:53

You are right Aubrac. I'm a recent convert but now I'm very attracted by plus lenses on a gwg. Is this an "age" thing for us chaps?

guest 16 Apr 2009, 04:45

They're thicker at the top, because the optical center of the lens is not in the middle, but slightly higher.

Aubrac 16 Apr 2009, 04:10

Phil

Don't know the technical reason or if correct but it may be due to the cylinder correction.

My wife's plus glasses are thicker at the top of the lens maybe for this reason.

Must admit while I still like minus lenses, I'm definitely more of a plus liker now - it does tend to grow on you.

Phil 16 Apr 2009, 03:44

I sat next to a 40-something gwg with plus lenses on a slow train journey this morning.

I've always been a "minus man" but I must say that I found these plus lenses intriguing. They were thinner at the edge than the centre (as I expected) but, rather unexpectedly, they seemed thinner at the bottom than the top (whereas I would have expected the opposite). Can anyone explain?

All in all it was a nice experience. The lenses were in rimless frames and were bright and new.

Aubrac 16 Apr 2009, 00:44

Unfortunately I must agree that Continental women i.e. French, Spanish, etc, do have a certain style, flair, and elegance, that UK women don't have. They also have better posture, are generally better groomed and move better. (light the blue-touch paper!!!)

They wear their style (and their glasses) with more confidence and for all the reasons I have mentioned, can look good in far more stylish and adventurous frames than many UK girls could.

I went to Bruges in Belgium the other week and soon lost count of the number of optical shops displaying really great frames.

I know there are many very lovely UK women but on the whole I think the Continentals (this includes blokes) have the edge on us regarding flair and chic.

ehpc 15 Apr 2009, 14:21

You think British women dress more conservatively?

Clare 15 Apr 2009, 13:26

Not saying there aren't pretty British girls ehpc, just commenting on style! A subjective thing ...

ehpc 15 Apr 2009, 12:58

Lots of pretty British girls, Clare :)

Clare 15 Apr 2009, 12:02

Yes of course Great Britain and the UK are part of Europe but we are not Europe, and I don't mean that in a political sense.

What I do believe is that Europeans (ie those across the Channel) have a sense of style that differentiates them from the Brits. They are more cosmopolitan/whacky (note my Dutch/Scandiavian colleagues) than we Brits will generally ever be. I admire them!

lazysiow 15 Apr 2009, 08:14

Video game gwg heroine Bayonetta - http://www.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/bayonetta-witch.jpg

sum1wholovesgirlswithglasses 14 Apr 2009, 22:21

clare doesnt great britain belong to europe too i mean thats like sayin swedish or norwegian girls are prettier than europeans no offense intended^^ anyways i had 2 significant sightings last week i first met an optician which seemed rather conceited than customer friendly but i didnt care as long theyre fixing glasses for free.in any case her rx appeared to be -5 and she wore hot emo glasses. my 2nd sighting cant be really counted as a sighting cause i met this nice person a physical therapist almost every day.she was in her 30s and looked quite stunning as a hyperope.i would estimate her prescription close in the +4 region. for some reason it turned me on when she took off her glasses and did things bareeyed and put them on again.

ehpc 14 Apr 2009, 21:26

Highly unlikely that the glasses distributed by manufacturers throughout Europe - and indeed much further beyond - are not identical, I should think.

ehpc 14 Apr 2009, 21:25

BIG has gotta come back..............:) Pete

Clare 14 Apr 2009, 14:10

Rebbull - I think the Europeans do glasses style much better than the Brits. Guess she was one of them!

Rebbull1 12 Apr 2009, 00:02

I was waiting at Stansted Airport last night , lots of gwg trying to see the departure boards .

Then I had a great sighting a young girl about 20 very pretty with enormous white framed glasses with think side arms absolutely stunning .

I think BIG is on the way back

ehpc 11 Apr 2009, 10:12

You certainly are, Sue :) Pete

Martyn 11 Apr 2009, 06:50

Sue, I hope your not considered attractive or not attractive depending on your glasses, after all glasses are only an aid to see better, they make little or no difference to the beauty of an individual, its said looks are only a 30 second introduction there after its the personality and integrity of the person that counts, glasses don,t have personalities or character, if anyone judges you by your glasses they are shallow and not worth knowing.

Have fun tke good care M

marsh 11 Apr 2009, 05:26

to Sue, you are always the best, just the way u r, everyone luvs u, happy holiday!!

Menthe 11 Apr 2009, 00:44

I wonder if anyone else here is a visitor to, or a resident of, China. I've just returned from a visit where I observed several young women wearing frames without any lenses. More interesting was a hotel near the Russian border where it was almost impossible to get to your room without being approached by a lady offering massage. There were actually several of them, and I suspect they were actually the pimps rather than the people who actually providing 'the service'. I came to this conclusion after the lady who previously approached me (I declined) re-appeared outside the next room to me with another woman: a gwg! She seemed to be introducing the gwg to the man staying there; I could hardly take my eyes off her. If I had known that gwgs were 'on offer' I might have taken more interest in a massage! Has anyone else here experience of professional gwgs?

Sue 11 Apr 2009, 00:05

Martyn

Thank you for those kind words. Its always nice to know us high minus girls are still considered attractive.

Martyn 10 Apr 2009, 06:08

Sue,Maybe i,m out of touch, i once worked for an optician it used to be once an RX past Minus 16 the optician used to advice myodisc lenses, maybe with new technology the lenses can be ground to suit higher RX,s, in the days i worked for the optician 1.7 and 1.9 lenses were very expensive and only the rich could afford them.

Anyway does it matter if someone wears glasses or not its the person behind the glasses that,s important, one think i know ladies like you will have the most beautiful eyes i,m sure you have been told that many times. Happy Easter. M

Charles 10 Apr 2009, 00:06

Anne,

I suppoose your group isn't in the UK, is it?

RL 09 Apr 2009, 14:10

At -14.00 I don't need myodiscs, but I have two pairs that I wear sometimes for the lightness and thinness of the lenses. Also they don't make my head look so narrow through the lenses.

Anne 09 Apr 2009, 12:29

I got my first myos when I was -22.50 / -24.00 . I didn't like wearing them at all - now I am -21.00 / 22.75 (getting older ;-) ) and got brand new 1.9 glass lenses in a small plastic frame - absolutly perfect for me! I'm member of a group of extremly nearsighted - we meet twice a month but no one of the others does wear myodiscs actually. I guess times of myodisc glasses are gone.

Charles 09 Apr 2009, 09:35

Martyn,

I didn't have myodiscs untilI was well into the -20's. Few people would have them at less than -20.00.

Sue 09 Apr 2009, 06:08

Martyn

Why would she need myodiscs if her rx was more than -16, my rx is R-14.75 L-17.25 and i dont need them,

Martyn 09 Apr 2009, 06:00

R, I think the young lady in the pic her RX is between minus 14 and 16, it would be interesting to know if her lenses were high index or just ordinary lenses, glass or plastic, i don,t think her RX is more than minus 16 other wise she would be needing myodiscs lenses.

Aubrac 08 Apr 2009, 14:08

R,

It's very difficult and rather speculative to say what her rx is.

I think one could only hazard a guess at between -7 and -14, at the lower end there could be an amount of prism that would make the outer edge of the glasses much thicker and make them appear stronger than they are.

It really needs more photos from other angles to come up with something else. However, there seems no reason with that scrip she should have other than 20/20 vision

R, 08 Apr 2009, 12:45

Thanks for the comments, i´m a little wiser now but still don´t know really: might she see fine and how strong doyou think are the glasses, i have one more upload:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7550/fr2w.jpg

JJ 07 Apr 2009, 23:25

R, I wonder if these can also be lenticular/myodisc lenses between -20 to -30 or higher?

Cactus Jack 07 Apr 2009, 17:47

R.,

Fairly high minus, but with the limited front only view it is hard to tell. Too many variables.

C.

R. 07 Apr 2009, 11:55

Thanks for the explanation, so what do you think how strong her lenses are and if she can see fine with those glasses?

Cactus Jack 06 Apr 2009, 19:45

R.,

I suspect she may either have some Base Out prism or because the lenses are so wide, her PD puts the optical center of the lenses much closer to the inside edge than the outside edge.

C.

R. 06 Apr 2009, 17:01

No this wasn´t meant in a negative way, I like her that way, I only would be interested what you think how strong these glasses are and why there are so many power rings at the outer front.

lentifan 06 Apr 2009, 13:05

R

Who are they irritating - her or you? They certainly wouldn't irritate me!

R 06 Apr 2009, 06:23

I´ve seen a very beautiful and nice girl who has very irritating glasses. They look like this:

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9786/frpow.jpg

I wouldn´t dare ask her about them so maybe you can help me explain what these lenses are like?

opticus 05 Apr 2009, 12:21

Just came home and found my GF wearing her Divemask (-9;-10)searching for her Glasses.

Carter 03 Apr 2009, 14:33

Was crossing a busy road and ran past a girl wearing very strong glasses, so had to get back to the other side to see what I had missed.

She was fabulous, neat figure, long black hair tied back and small oval wire framed glasses about an inch or so high and slightly wider, but the front was slightly concave and at the side I have never seen so much edge, more than 3/4inch.

She was reading a map, so I could look, but she held it quirte close to see, then set off peering hard down the street. I was late for a meeting or I would have found an excuse to chat.

Martyn 03 Apr 2009, 14:28

Standing taking a phone call on my mobile near St Paul's cathedral in London, when a woman of about 50 comes out of a shop and stands beside me also making a call. She was weraing really strong plus lenses at least 1cm thick.

Slit 28 Mar 2009, 19:02

Hypothesis:

Dutch/ German ladies are queens of high power myopia!

They are the only Europian breeds that compete with the asian ladies on power rings!

True?

Luke 27 Mar 2009, 22:03

About a week ago, I had my all-time greatest sighting. I was at an airport, and four people -- 2 men, 2 women, all in their 20's -- were walking towards me. Three of the four were wearing glasses. I realized as they got closer that the more beautiful of the two women had very strong glasses.

She was medium height, quite thin, straight blond hair, and porcelain-smooth skin. Her glasses were clear plastic frames, with very wide translucent-white temples. Very fashionable. The flat-front lenses had power-rings that seemed to go all the way across the lenses. They were definitely over -12, likely more. She walked over to a fast-food place and tilted her head up so she could look through the center of her lenses to read the menu.

How I wish this weren't SO rare. She and the others were European -- I couldn't place the accent definitely, maybe Danish or Dutch. She didn't seem self-conscious about her glasses, and I hope she wasn't. At least in the US, I feel like a very nearsighted beautiful young woman would feel like she HAS to wear contacts.

Oscar 27 Mar 2009, 14:42

Some details of the TV show in which Katy definitely wore glasses with her full prescription - it was "Going for a Song" - an antiques show where the guests has to guess the value of antiques.

Details:

2.30pm-3pm

Sunday 7th May 1972

Going for a Song

Guests:

Katy Manning, Gerald English

I still vividly remember watching this. The bad news: apparently the episode does not survive.

Puffin 27 Mar 2009, 09:28

It also seems to say about her (Katy Manning) that she's "famously myopic" everywhere I looked. Must be used to wandering about in a blur then.

Galileo 27 Mar 2009, 05:26

It has just sunk in how long ago all the Katy Manning stuff happened.... I just worked out she must be about 63 years old now!

GWGS 27 Mar 2009, 05:25

Forgot to mention that there is a relatively high myope in this years Apprentice - thinking about it, every year there is a gwg!

This years gwg isn't the biggest looker of them all and can look a bit gourmless at times but at other times she can grab my attention by displaying her wonderful cut in.

I'm estimating she's around a -5, here's a link to several photos of her

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article2344053.ece

gwgs 27 Mar 2009, 04:15

Same here, I trawled through countless pages on Google and tried all different combinations of words and found not one single photo.

What was interesting though is there were quite a few articles which specifically mentioned "her thick lenses" - why couldn't they post a photo to go with this???

myopeinhere 26 Mar 2009, 15:32

Perhaps we ought to have a Katy manning thread!!!!

After a long trawl through everything I can think off can find not one photo of Katy in glasses,she must have been very conscious of them,a real pity

Galileo 26 Mar 2009, 08:37

I'm posting a link to one of the naked pictures of Katy M on the XXX thread

Puffin 26 Mar 2009, 08:24

Re Katy Manning, apparently she DID do these things with uncorrected high myopia. Sometimes scenes would have to be re-shot because she tripped over something.

Robert 26 Mar 2009, 06:37

Was in a store ink and paper, one pretty assistant was wearing very nice lilac frames with a low plus but lot of cylinder correction - unusual distortion when looking through the lens from behind.

Another girl on the cash desk had nice black metal frames, lenses were quite thin but I couldn't tell what they were for! Looking from behind they made everything slanted and very thin - as though the image had been turned into a bar code. Maybe just a very high cylinder correction - any ideas?

Galileo 26 Mar 2009, 04:11

Re Katy Manning, I read an article in which she said she did some episodes of Doctor Who without glasses or contact lenses and that John Pertwee (the Doctor)knew about her eyesight and helped her to survive. She said her eyes were "really bad" but I doubt she could have done the things she did if she was as high as -25 and working without any correction. She did say in that article that she did not wear contacts. Unfortunately I can't find the article anymore.

do you know she also did a nude photoshoot for Penthouse magazine posing with a Dalek? I enjoyed those photos!

gwgs 26 Mar 2009, 02:08

There's too much talk of Katy and not enough links to photos.

Please, if anyone knows of any photos or caps of these I would LOVE to see them as these large myodiscs sound a dream

Oscar 25 Mar 2009, 15:50

Lentifan - I saw Katy wearing much weaker glasses later on too - and more recently, I think a pair of (plus) readers. Her prescription really was/is quite extreme, so she may have had a partial correction with contacts and worn lenses for further distance correction, or some such? She was certainly wearing real myodiscs on the TV show I mentioned.

lazysiow 25 Mar 2009, 15:15

I'm in Vancouver BC in Canada for business on 2 weeks and straight away I notice, this is as close to gwg heaven as it's going to get. There are many many beautiful girls here but most if not all of them are not afraid to wear gorgeous designer frames usually with moderate to strong minus prescriptions.

I may well immigrate now!

lentifan 25 Mar 2009, 13:50

My memory of seeing Katy Manning being interviewed was that she was wearing large brown round frames (the style of the period) which gave her a somewhat owlish appearance. They were clearly minus lenses, but not all that strong given the large diameter of the lenses. Definitely not myodiscs. Even then, I could spot myodiscs, without necessarily knowing what they were called.

Of course, she may have been wearing contacts underneath, but if so, why bother stopping short of the full Rx?

Karen X 25 Mar 2009, 13:06

Better closeups of Billie Piper wearing her glasses http://billiepiperfan.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=525

Oscar 25 Mar 2009, 06:04

Charles,

I once saw her as a guest on a BBC TV Antiques show and she was indeed wearing myodiscs (in large frames), but kept taking her glasses off when she was looking into the camera rather than at an object. It was a memorable sighting, especially as she was already quite lovely as Jo in Dr Who. I also remember an interview in the Radio Times where she spoke quite a lot about her extreme myopia.

gwgs 25 Mar 2009, 04:33

Certainly would be good to see some photos of her, I've never heard of her before, but with a prescription like that it'd be great to see her sporting her spex

charles 25 Mar 2009, 03:22

about Katy Manning :

If I remember right I read an article of an interview with her some years ago where she talked about her severe myopia. She said she wears contacts with about -25 dpt, but still has very poor vision. She also told that she had some eye exams for a surgery but htan decided to go on in her life as she was used to it all the time. She told she would like to see things smooth, without edges and without ugly shapes. I am a great fan of her and only once saw a pic of her in glasses - really strong myodisc ones - I would not have recognized her because she looked so different with this strong pair !

gwgs 25 Mar 2009, 02:39

Aubrac, I have a photo of her from years ago but my guess - and an obvious one at that - is that her myopia has increased as the photo doesn't show a lot of sign of cut in and her prescription then would probably be around -2ish.

From memory, I would guess her prescription now is somewhere in the region of the 5's given the large amount of cut in that was evident in The Telegraph Magazine's photo

Various photos are here but they don't really give as a clear an indication as the aforementioned pic did

http://billiepiperfan.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=88&pos=40

myopeinhere 25 Mar 2009, 00:08

ah the delicious Katy manning aka Jo Grant,I've tried long and hard to find photos of her in her glasses to no avail,ah well,can just imagine it now..

Puffin 24 Mar 2009, 15:06

Talking about Dr Who, and glasses, I remember a couple other assistants who wore glasses. There's Katy Manning who was really myopic, apparently over minus 20, and I think Mary Tamm (?) who wore (non-fake) glasses as part of her means of "disguise" to avoid fans.

It seems there is something of a connection between myopia and Dr Who.

Aubrac 24 Mar 2009, 08:02

Maverick/gwgs

Nice pictures but still difficult to judge scrip.

Would now agree with gwgs that right lens is minus.

Would make guess at about -2/-3, her latest pic I saw was with quite large frames. Could be in year or two since she got those glasses scrip has increased by -1.00 or so.

Maverick 24 Mar 2009, 06:27

Aubrac : Here are a few screen caps of Billie Piper I grabbed about a year ago. Hope they show enough to guess an RX.

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/9203/grabbedframe10sg1.jpg

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2455/grabbedframe9ue7.jpg

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3629/grabbedframe11ig3.jpg

Aubrac 24 Mar 2009, 03:07

GWGS

Yes, it certainly is a very nice pic. Does anyone have any other photos of her, I'm still interested to know what the scrip is for the right lens.

gwgs 24 Mar 2009, 02:03

Well spotted Aubrac, I have been dreaming over that pic as well.

She has made no secret over the fact that she is "blind as a bat" and says without her glasses she can't see people across the street and gets rather embarassed about friends who who wave at her or acknowledge her from a short distance and she completely blanks them as she can't see them.

That pic was a great one to show off her spex, I doubt though that she is myopic in only one eye, I find it is often the case that cut in only shows through lens when the subject is at an angle.

Aubrac 22 Mar 2009, 05:16

More of a reading than a sighting! In yesterdays (I think Saturday Telegraph) supplement there was a nice picture Billie Piper with her baby son.

She was wearing very large dark brown or black frames glasses, her face was turned to the left and power rings of about -5.00 were easily visible in the left lens. Her right lens though didn't show any rings, it may have been plano or even low plus but really guessing on that.

I seem to remember quite a while ago she said she suffered from dizziness and slight nausea, but when she had her eyes checked and then wore glasses, the problems went away.

Maybe quite a large uncorrected plus/minus difference with some astigamtism made her feel like that.

John L 19 Mar 2009, 14:09

Myope in Killer Heels!

I was in my local Costco store the other day and I made an interesting sighting.

It was the heels that caught my attention first.

Aged around 25 this attractive woman was wearing purple platform shoes with about a 4.5 to 5inch heel and 1 inch platforms.

Wearing a grey woollen beret and grey woollen jacket, very short skirt and black lycra leggings.

Her glasses were rimless and I would estimate that given the apparent thickness of her lenses she must have been around -6 at least.

She was obviuously very used to strutting around in these high shoes which made her slender frame statuesque.

real eye candy!

wearglasses 19 Mar 2009, 10:16

great surprise this morning :

I work in a pretty big office and one of my colleagues is a nice and tall young woman (age 28 - 30). I never saw her wearing glasses.This morning she came to office with a really strong pair of glasses - I don't know exactly what RX but I never saw stronger glasses in reality - her eyes looked so small behind the slightly grey tinted lenses. I saw some pics (Ashley) in some glasses lover pages and I guess her RX is about -20 to -25. The frame was a small plastic one with differnt colours in red and grey. I don't know why she wore glasses today? broken or lost contact lens? eye exam in the afternoon? Preparing for a laser treatment? I hope she just decided to wear glasses more often or even always. Normally I don't like to go to the office so early - but for tomorrow I will !

gwgs 19 Mar 2009, 09:05

Where? Just had a quick browse and can't see anything

Aubrac 19 Mar 2009, 05:12

AOL home page in the uk has a lot of links today with celebs in specs, eyeware, etc.

\enjoy

gwgs 16 Mar 2009, 02:40

Just seen one of our accounts girls - a mid 20's mandarin girl - has got a new pair of glasses and it's rather refeshing that she hasn't gone back to hi index lenses which she had worn for a while!

When she first joined our company, she had a pair of rectangular rimless frames which had rather thick lenses. I used to marvel at these, but a few months down the line she opted for some black metal rimmed hexis with hi index lenses which made her lenses so thin they looked line planos - the power rings couldn't hide though!

Now I have just seen her in a new pair of osiris frames with cut away sides and wide arms which reveal a large amount of thickness to the lenses, I have only managed to get a couple of glimpses but the thickness easily covers the entire amount of the cut away part at the side.

I'm looking forward to complementing her on them and presume she has a new prescription, but what made her change back to cr39 lenses? Wish more girls would do this

Aubrac 14 Mar 2009, 06:47

An attractive early forties lady visited our office the other day about business rates. She has been three times before and on the first visit arrived wearing plus glasses that she took off and didn't wear again.

This time she was next to me at my desk and put on some nice green and cream frame glasses to look at the computer screen. My partner said he was going to make tea, and she took her glasses off and went to help.

Well, her glasses were sitting on my desk and so couldn't resist putting them on!! I was wearing contacts and with her glasses I could see quite clearly through the right lens, maybe +1.00 or a tad more, but through the left lens I couldn't see a thing at distance and not even the computer screen. I reckon the left lens was about +4.00 and there seemed to be a lot of cylinder correction in both lenses. The right lens looked like a progressive as it bent the image when looking through the bottom of the lens. Couldn't actually work it out as it may have just been the cylinder correction causing the distortion.

Anyway she's coming back in next week and so might take the opportunity to ask her about them.

Aubrac 11 Mar 2009, 03:33

Chris

You could persuade your wife to have an eye exam, possibly over 60% of the population need some form of correction, most of it for astigmatism.

However, even if your wife needs say -0.25 of cylinder correction, the eye doc might say not bother with glasses and come back in two years time!

If you get low minus glasses of about -1.00, she could wear these all the time with no problem, but if she has any even slight problem with reading small print, she will find the glasses make this worse and won't wear them.

But if you get +1.00, again she could wear these all day quite comfortably, and will find computer work and reading small print easier. There are a lot of very nice OTC readers in +1.00 to choose from at reasonable prices.

DWV 11 Mar 2009, 02:26

Has your wife ever had an eye exam? Pretty much nobody has absolutely perfect vision... and it's also a really good idea to get your eyes checked regularly because the doc can detect early signs of unpleasant eye diseases like glaucoma. If you see a doc who's affiliated with a store like Lenscrafters, there's a reasonable probability of getting a prescription for glasses.

chris 10 Mar 2009, 20:25

Thanks for the replies!

Next friday is our anniversary, i think i'll wait for that day to give her the glasses i bought. i've a couple of ideas for that moment :p

Like Lenses 09 Mar 2009, 02:32

chris

Why not get her a pair of weak minus, perhaps -.75 or -1.00 from an online optical such as globaleyeglasses.com. You do not need a doctors prescription.

She could probably tolerate them for constant wear near, and far.

Slit 08 Mar 2009, 21:36

Hi Chris,

No big deal... now she already know u r fond of her wearing glasses!

So create a intimate moment with nice surrounding (guess u understand what im talking abt) and ask her to close her eyes and gently slip in the glasses on to her face...:-)

Start action soon after without leaving space for her to comment... she will love the feeling!

chris 08 Mar 2009, 21:05

Hi, i've been visiting this site for a long time but this is my first post.

I'm 28 years old and i have perfect vision. My wife is the same age and also has perfect vision.

I like GWG but i've never told that to my wife.

The thing is that last week her sister came from abroad and stayed a couple of days at home. Last time i saw her before, she was an ocassionally gwg, but apparently she has gone full time now. When she came, she was wearing a pair of black rectangular frames with wide arms. The glasses seems to be low minus.

At night she went out with some friends and wore contacts. She left the glasses over the table of the tv room. When late in the night my wife and me decided to watch a movie, i saw the glasses there and tried them on. I think they are about -1,50. My wife found funny the way i looked on glasses and i asked her if she wanted to try them. Luckily she said yes and took them. I've never seen my wife as hot as that time, so i took some courage and told her she looked so sexy that she should wear glasses although she doesn't need 'em.

She left them on till her sister arrived (for about 2 hours) and i constantly remarked my wife how much i liked the way she looked.

When her sister went back to her house, obviously she took her glasses with her.

I wanted to see my wife with glasses again and because of that i bought for her a cheap pair of nice readers (+1,75). I dont know how to say to her that i bought the glasses and i want to see her wearing them on a regular basis. Any help on this?

rareposter 08 Mar 2009, 13:27

Lost in the southern part of the country, I went in to a fashion store in a minor town to ask for directions.

Inside the store looking for someone to guide me, suddenly a late 20's/early 30's [very] pregnant woman appears to help me.

She was wearing oversized pilotglasses (the new fashion????) with a severe cut-in and the loveliest tiny eyes behind.

She was very helpful and I could not stop to ask questions enough to get the directions right ;o).

I can't stop thinking about it. It was great. Can't stop thinking about it and I felt I have to share...

gwgs 05 Mar 2009, 03:16

Hopefully - but I won't hold my breath - eyeglass fashion is going back to the good old 80's where oversized frames rocked.

Looking at Prada's new line of glasses hopefully others will follow suit, I'd love to see some of the old skool Tura, Dior and Zyloware frames being worn more

Puffin 04 Mar 2009, 16:51

Saw an interesting sighting a few days whilst out shopping, a middle aged woman wearing squarish, large frames ala 80's/90's with thick tinted lenses. I felt I was seeing something from the past, or could it be things are going back the way they were? or else perhaps she broke her new pair?

Dan 03 Mar 2009, 15:51

Aubrac,

I guess you're right. Maybe I'll see her in class again and see what she decides to do.

Hyperopia is a lot more interesting to me than myopia...at times I wish I was hyperopic to see what its like. Oh well, I'll just have to settle for presbyopia in 20 years.

Aubrac 03 Mar 2009, 12:22

Dan

You can never get it just right with hyperopes, especially younger ones. (see my post on sightings)

There are just too many things coming in to play.

Seems like she is a true hyperope and needs glasses for distance and close work but is still evaluating how much her glasses improve vision, especially for distance.

As a student, she may well wear glasses a lot more for reading, especially if there is some astigmatism, but who knows!

Dan 03 Mar 2009, 09:27

I really do enjoy going to college with 20,000 girls (of which a lot wear glasses)...had another good sighting today.

Was in class this morning and about halfway through the lecture, the girl in front of me takes her glasses out and puts them on (she seemed to have no problem seeing the board before this).

They were mild plus glasses probably around +.50 (definitely less than +1.00) and looked to have a slight bit of astigmatism correction.

She proceeded to wear them the rest of class to copy notes from the board. At one point, I caught her comparing her distance vision with the glasses and without by constantly looking through the glasses and then over the top of them!

One weird thing was that she was reading a book prior to class and was not wearing glasses.

Seems interesting to me that she would put on her glasses for distance vision and not while reading if she was a hyperope. Her eyes must just get tired and the astigmatism correction must play a part as well. My guess is a new hyperope. Any other thoughts?

Galileo 03 Mar 2009, 06:49

Last year I posted that I had met a high myope and intended to ask her out.

Well it happened this week, after months where we did not see each other and I lost her phone number we met. I asked her to dinner and she accepted.

Conversation drifted over many subjects including glasses. She is -9. Her frames are an unusual twin wire arrangement. An oval wire runs round the lenses with a very thin blue and silver ornamentation on the top half and then there is a second metal wire arangement running across the nose to the arms. It is almost like the (very small) lenses hang off a washing line.

She made my night by taking her glasses off to clean them just after we sat down. All the time she was polishing the lenses with her napkin she looked straight at me with that "myopic stare" which implies "I'm looking at you but I can't actually see you". Then she held her glasses at the end of her nose to check they were clean and put them back on again. Mmmmm

Dan 03 Mar 2009, 06:11

Was in church last week and across the aisle from me was a girl (in her low 20s) who was wearing plus glasses (looked fairly weak--maybe +1.00 or less--couldn't really tell from my angle however).

Anyway, I thought she was just a hyperope but to my pleasant surprise I saw her looking OVER the top of her glasses to see into the distance. She kept taking them on and off during church.

Seems to me she is a new hyperope or really early presbyope. Very nice experience!

Aubrac 03 Mar 2009, 01:53

Was at Stanstead airpport the other day in the cafe when an attractive early forties lady wearing about +3 rimless glasses sat near me.

She took her glasses off and looked around, then put her glasses on to read the menu, then off again when her husband joined her.

Glasses on to go and look in the nearby shop, but off half way there, then on in the shop to look at things. Took her glasses off, then got a glasses case out of her bag and took out a pair of about +1.5/+2, put these on and put the other glasses in the case.

Then went off with her husband wearing the second pair and seemed quite happy with these for distance.

Surely time for bifocals - a lot easier!

Dieter 02 Mar 2009, 12:39

Has anyone noticed the new Lenscrafters TV ad in the US? It shows an extreme close up of a woman's right eye. A pair of black rectangular plastic frames are fitted over her face. From her eye you can tell she smiles as though she sees something she likes. In the reflection of her lens you see an image that looks to me like a small child. But what is amazing is the fact the the lens actually contains a substantial prescription, probably around -5.00 or so. It is the first time I have seen an optical add that is not using plano lenses.

Phil 24 Feb 2009, 03:34

I saw her again today!! It's almost worth getting up in time to catch the 7.09!! But today she was bare-eyed throughout the journey. My hunch is that she's a first-time gwg.

Phil 23 Feb 2009, 03:08

On the train into London this morning an attractive young woman with lovely dark hair was wearing some nice new black frames as she read her Blackberry. The lenses were clearly minus. Possibly around -2.5. So I was somewhat surprised when, just outside Waterloo, she took them off and popped them into a shiny new specs case.

I wondered whether she had some astigmatism so that the glasses helped her with reading. It's quite unusual for a low to moderate myope to use specs for close work and remove them before they would be useful for distance clarity.

Demon 20 Feb 2009, 21:28

AWESOME!

I work in a fitness center and the other day a girl came in (about 20 yrs. old). She had her hair neatly pulled back in a bun. She spent about 45 min. in the gym. Anyway, she was wearing a pair of blue glasses that appeared to be approx. +2. Not only that, but she was wearing them down her nose while reading a book. She spent about half of her time working out and the other half just sitting on machines reading. She also walked about without removing her glasses but rather tilting her head down and looking over them. OH MY!!

My 'OO'ness really only activates with regards to plus lenses or bifocals (despite the fact that I am a myope); so this was a good one for me. Unfortunately I could only observe from a distance as I could not leave my area, so I couldn't manufacture an interaction. If I see her again I will try because I have a suspicion after observing her that she may be one of us.

eyespy 20 Feb 2009, 15:18

.. and I've seen alot of those geeky glasses recently in London, just check out Take That on the Brits - it can only get more so!

eyespy 20 Feb 2009, 15:17

gwgs

I wonder if people who wear planos realise that those of who don't can see they're not real!

Maybe if they did they'd feel embarrassed, who knows?

Dan 20 Feb 2009, 09:41

Very boring train journey today from the north of england to london, plus a boring book to read.

Hoever, it got better.

At one station (a city with a large university) two female students (early 20s, loaded up with rucksacks, books mobile fones etc) got on, and the only seat in the carriage was opposite me.

1st student: about 5foot2, blonde hair, slim face, glasses about -7 ish. looked like hiindex cos didnt look thick but cut in was pronounced and lots of power rings.

Her friend, wow! she was asian, so black hair etc, really tiny (3 foot 3 or something like that) but her glasses were tiny but really strong. they were bifocals, had huge cut in - almost like over half her face had been eaten by the lenses. Inthe reflection in the window they looked about 1 inch thick (must have some huge prisms i'd guess)

2 stops later, they were joined by another girl; no glasses but made some comments about needing new contacts.

gwgs 20 Feb 2009, 08:21

Just had a young female client come into my office who couldn't be more than 20/21 years old come into my office. Absolutely stunning brunette with flawless face and petite frame and the heaviest black square rimmed glasses.

I could immediately tell they were planos without checking for cut in or maginification as

A:/ I wouldn't have thought a young attractive glasses wearer would be that bold

B:/ There wasn't any sign of prescription

It got me thinking again that isn't it funny how it really swings in roundabouts with some people who can't stand wearing glasses who have to (latest discussion on the Strong Glasses thread with Amanda) and others who don't need them at all want to make a statement of themselves.

Oh how I wish this young lady's eyes had a myopic tendency as my mind would have been extremely distracted then! Thinking about I have been distracted as I have had to edit this post several times due to numerous typos!

Warren 15 Feb 2009, 22:07

In Oakland CA last week. Never have seen so many GWGs. Everywhere I walked I saw loads of them and some with a really strong RX. Don't think I saw a single plus, they were all myopes.

anonymous 13 Feb 2009, 15:16

Midway through a show called QI on BBC1 TV tonight a Hungarian inventor was introduced in the audience. He had invented an object which always returned to the same position irrespective of the position in which it was laid down.

Next to him in the audience and in full view of the camera was a very attractive lady with slightly tinted minus lenses.

I don't know if she was his wife. If so, she was looking at him proudly.

The programme gets repeated on other BBC channels, I think.

Dan 13 Feb 2009, 07:07

Went to see a comedian last week and after the show we were waiting to meet the guy and in front of me in line was a young girl (17 or 18) with great plus glasses. Probably around +3 or 4. Really magnified her eyes.

Galileo 12 Feb 2009, 06:36

The high myope I dated for a while was a redhead

Phil 12 Feb 2009, 01:18

Brent's post reminded me of something I've meant to ask here for ages. Is there an above average incidence of myopia in redhead girls? My perception is that there may be, though it may just be that, because they look so lovely in dark plastic frames, I notice them rather readily! Are there any redhead gwgs here?

Brent 11 Feb 2009, 22:58

Was walking out of my college class today, and noticed a red-head with very strong minus glasses. She was sitting down, reading something. I couldn't help myself from staring... and as I walked closer, I could see the huge cut-in. I walked right behind her as she was reading, and I even got a great view of the thickness of the lenses! I was about 2 feet away. I estimate they were between -11.00 and -14.00. MADE my day.

Wayne 10 Feb 2009, 21:11

In a Malaysian restaurant tonight. The greeter was a small, massively attractive girl with a beautiful smile topping a fabulous body.

Half way through the meal, It was obvious that she had an eye problem as she was frequently dabbing / rubbing with a tissue. She left the floor and came back 5 mins later wearing a pair of rectangulr black plastic frame with a very strong minus prescription. From the cut-in and power rings must have been mid teens. From being serious eye candy she had moved to the total stunner category.

Trent 10 Feb 2009, 18:01

My wife's friend works at a local drug store. We were there the other day to drop something off when I noticed a Chinese gal at the front check-out wearing some very impressive glasses. On the way out we stopped to chat. She was wearing these square thick-metal frames which did nothing to contain the many power rings. When she looked down I could see significant lens thickness. Her Rx was probably around -14 diopters. Wow what a sighting!

Aubrac 10 Feb 2009, 04:00

MichaelL

I spentg a lot of time in Glasgow and noticed a lot of lovely plussies, maybe more than usual as it is a busy university city.

On Easyjet I often saw a nice cabin attendant with plus lenses and a lot of cylinder correction.

gwgs 10 Feb 2009, 02:49

What a great sighting Michael L, I would love to have broken my mile high duck with her!

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 09 Feb 2009, 23:08

I do not know what the rules are for flight attendants Isaw a gorgeous gwg on a flight from amsterdam to hong Kong and she was about minus 8 I too was surprised

Michael L 09 Feb 2009, 21:00

In the UK for a few days on business. Some great sightings particularly in Scotland where there are a lot of plussies. Even had one of these as Cabin Services Director on a flight from Glasgow to London. Left eye was much stronger than right.

On my flight back to the States, one of the Virgen Flight Attendants wore significantly strong minus glasses, must have been at least -7, which is far more than I thought was allowed.

Like Lenses 07 Feb 2009, 19:36

I myself had a sighting today in a restaurant, of a shapely 30 something gal with eyes dressed to the nines ( minus that is )

Like Lenses 07 Feb 2009, 19:29

Galileo

Sounds like you were eating up those -15's for lunch!

Galileo 07 Feb 2009, 04:49

In a small restaurant for lunch when an attractive asian girl walked in. She had long hair and a fringe which came down to the top edge of her glasses. She sat on the next table to me, where I had a clear view of her face.

The frames were like this http://www.specsavers.co.uk/glasses/womens-glasses/bonamy but just one colour - dark maroon with a small gold motif on the arms.

What really caught my attention was the Rx which must have been in the -15 range. She looked great, the frames really suited her and for an OO it made a nice lunch into a great lunch

Julian 04 Feb 2009, 12:31

JP: I've now had a good look at the Quiksilver range on the Specsavers site, and I haven't see one like Nathan's. I think it must be one of the 'Sorry, image unavailable' types ::(

Julian 04 Feb 2009, 12:05

JP: well, they aren't exactly like that. For one thing they aren't semi-rimless, the black frames are all round the eyes. For another the temples don't have that decoration (which I don't much like); they go from back to *completely* transparent. But you're right, he is a cutie.

JP 04 Feb 2009, 03:22

Julian - Nathan sounds a cutie! I wonder what frames those were? Perhaps these: http://www.specsavers.co.uk/glasses/designer-glasses/quiksilver-9

I always like minus on men, but just occasionally am taken by a plus sighting.

Aubrac 03 Feb 2009, 12:45

Dan/Clare

You can never tell. In our office we had a temp, about 19 yo, on arrival she would put on her glasses, about -1.50 with some cylinder, and then take them off whenever she went out.

At the local sandwich bar she couldn't see thee specials on the board, but back in the office put her glasses on to do office work.

Everyone has their own ways and means!!

Dan 03 Feb 2009, 12:26

Clare,

Guess that would make sense. I know I find it a pain to take them on and off constantly so I leave them on. But I guess everyone has their own preference.

Clare 03 Feb 2009, 11:52

Dan - yes most likely. I was about -1.25 when I realised it was easier to see distance objects like a board and I would put them on/take them off. I think it's because I felt I should only wear them when I needed to see something specific. Needless to say mine also spent a fair amount of time on the desk too.

Danny 03 Feb 2009, 09:56

Steve

Possibly Glaucoma?

Dan 03 Feb 2009, 08:56

Sat next to a good looking girl today in one of my classes (~20 years old). At the beginning of class she pulled her glasses out of her case but laid them on the desk instead of putting them on.

She only wore them when copying from the board. She would take them off when the professor was talking. So they went on and on about 5 times during the class. They were definitely a minus prescription (I'd guess -.75 or -1.00...didn't get a great view though). I wonder why she didn't just keep them on the entire class? Maybe she felt uncomfortable? Interesting question.

Julian 03 Feb 2009, 08:30

Since we've got on to guys in supermarkets and so on, here's one that I'd normally post on 'Julian's jottings'. He's my latest favourite cashier at my local Tesco - need I say he wears glasses? His name is Nathan. He's tallish with a slim figure and spiky black hair. His face has one or two blemishes, like old burn scars maybe. But his glasses: they are spec-tacular (and, what's more, he wears them with pride!) Black frames, rounded-off oblongs; temples shading from black to completely transparent over the ears, and straight, so as to grip the sides of the head (I like that look, besides thinking they're more comfortable). The lenses? strong plus, with a lot of cylinder. The first time he served me I was bold enough to say, "Hey, I like your glasses," and he took them off with a flourish and announced "Quicksilver!" and then went into some more detail about liking the black and silver effect. He's right too; it suits him down to the ground. (I'd love to try them on!)

JP 03 Feb 2009, 04:59

Another one yesterday working in the supermarket. Short guy by the name of Ben, with spikey brown hair, cute, and of course glasses. Low minus in silver/gunmetal frames with wide temples. And he was doing close work, labelling stock perhaps for mark-downs.

So tempting to compliment this guy on his choice of frames. And wouldn't I like to try them on!

JP 02 Feb 2009, 12:37

Spotted a cute myopic guy for the first time working in my local DIY store the other day. Six feet tall with brown hair, wearing nice Oakley metal frames that suited him perfectly.

He looked to be no more than -4.00 but the funny thing is when he looked down to the cash drawer he showed notable edge thickness of perhaps 5 mm. Perhaps just wide and low-index lenses. Didn't see him again a couple of days later, sadly.

JP 02 Feb 2009, 12:33

Perhaps macular degeneration (which has a "juvenile" form). This leaves lots of peripheral vision which is handy for getting around. Rapid head movements are required for reading, in order to use the better parts of the macular.

Highmyope 02 Feb 2009, 08:31

I would guess tunnel vision.....

Steve K 02 Feb 2009, 08:05

On the train last Monday evening which was 4 coaches short and becoming mega-packed, when a young lady with a white cane confidently got into the carriage and made for the last seat (opposite me). She was wearing lenticular plus lenses, the right significantly fatter than the left in a metal frame.

A number of odd things struck me. She could obviously see fairly well as there was a step up into the carriage, also the one empty seat was at least 20 ft from the door and was back to the door, so you had to see "no head" rather than an empty seat. She sat down and took out a mobile phone, which had a normal keyboard and display (she knocked it onto the floor infront of me as she looked for something else in her bag, and I picked it up and gave it back to her)and sent two text messages without handling the phone in any way abnormally. She then took out a novel, (not large print) which she started to read normally, but after 5 mins fished in her bag and took out and used a strong magnifying glass for a while, before putting down the book and sending two more text messages.

Whilst reading, the rapid head movements of the high hyperope were very clear.

Again, she could obviously see fairly well.

When she got off, she used the cane as blind people do, but absolutely shot along the platform weaving through people, up the stairs and through the barrier.

She obviously hade some significant visual impairment, but can anybody suggest what sort?

Martin 02 Feb 2009, 07:50

Coming through Waterloo Station in London last week and spotted a bright "plano glint" in the distance standing almost directly under the destination board. As I approached I realised that this asiatic lady was weraring a tiny lensed pair of very high minus rimless glasses. The lenses were sized so that the heavy cut-in did not show the side of the head, though her eyes were tiny. They were obviously very high index as they were thin, not more than 5mm (1/5in)thick at the edges. They were actually slightly concave in the front from close up, not plano,so the thickess in the centre of the lense must have been almost nothing. With so much care going into minimising power rings and cut-in, it was odd that the polished edges "glowed" and totally gave the strength game away. A light frame covering the lense edge, and you would not have realised the strength.

Puffin 31 Jan 2009, 10:49

Queuing up behind me at the local KFC was a youngish woman (25-28 or so) quite attractive, no glasses, but gave the biggest squint I've seen for ages looking at the menu.

Julian 31 Jan 2009, 02:38

... but it occurs to me a bus is an unusual place to hold a graduation ::)

Julian 31 Jan 2009, 02:37

Perhaps she really thought so. People can be quite obtuse about these things!

Jeff Bacher 31 Jan 2009, 02:18

I would like to see some replies before posting the rest of the episode.

Jeff Bacher 31 Jan 2009, 02:17

I met one of my earliest MSc student of mine, who was graduated in 1995 on a bus. At first I didn't recognise her, yet her face looks somehow familiar. She recognised me, and talked about some general things. She is roughly 40 years old, that day, at first she wore a huge sunglasses without prescription. She removed it later, squints when looking outside the window. Then I saw some apparent prints on her nose. I told her that I noticed some hints of wearing glasses. She then put on a prescription glasses. I pretend to be unaware of the kind of lenses, and joked, "This pair's for reading?", and she replied, "Yes, I have bad eyes, and these lenses magnify the print."

A surprise. Wow, a pair of concave lens magnifies a print. Such a flawed statement.

Jeff Bacher, South Korea.

Trent 30 Jan 2009, 17:52

I was at the optical store last night checking out the frames. The optician at the desk behind me was dealing with an Asian woman who was returning her glasses. I listened in and heard the woman complain that the lenses were too thick. The optician said that she had a very high prescription at 11.25 diopters. Even with the 1.7 index the lenses would be thick. The Asian woman left wearing her old glasses, a small pair of oval wire frame with obviously very strong lenses.

MJ 27 Jan 2009, 23:38

Gino

Even -2.50 can be irritating in a large room. Had you considered that all the cleaning/readjusting might have been because she actually wanted someone to say something?

Guest 27 Jan 2009, 14:16

Gino

Any chance that this is a new pair of specs with a new prescription, hence the increased wearing of them? Or are they the same frames as before? Doesn't rule out an increase of course.

lentifan 27 Jan 2009, 12:48

Yesterday encountered a very pretty dark-haired young lady (maybe about 20) whose eyes were sparkling beautifully behind quite strong minus lenses. Her glasses were black rectangular thin metal frames which suited her very well and showed lovely power rings and thickness at the outside edges. I estimate her Rx was well into double figures.

I suspect she does not know how attractive she looks and I wish I could be confident that the squat skinhead whose hand she was holding appreciates her beauty as much as I do. But hey, let's not judge a book by its cover; he did at least have his hand in hers - even if his other hand was stuffing a pie into his face!

A little later I saw a willowy fine-boned young blonde girl, probably younger (maybe 17 - 18) wearing a pair of silver metal frames with small ovel lenses which looked really good on her. Her Rx looked even stronger - perhaps -20d. She was chatting away to an unbespectacled (and therefore unmemorable)girl. A gorgeous potential bride/daughter-in-law.

Two in one day. I felt privileged.

Gino 27 Jan 2009, 07:33

Great dinner yesterday with my wife and a friendly couple, Bob and Lynn. I knew Lynn was nearsighted from having seen her drive her car several times before, but yesterday she kept her glasses on during the whole evening for the first time. She took them off for cleaning and readjusting several times, but never mentioned the glasses in our conversation. I guess she's not more than -2.50, as cut in is really minor and she did very well without the glasses until very recently. On our way home, I briefly touched the subject with my wife, who positively commented on Lynn's choice of classy red-and-pink plastic frames.

Alenn 22 Jan 2009, 02:54

Someone earlier mentioned seeing a fellow in Morristown Tn with myodiscs. i saw him Tue morning in Jefferson city at a gas station filling up his truck (a Suburban not a Blazer) full of firewood and he had sawdust all over him. Those glasses of his look like something from a traveling free clinic. old safety glasses frames with the sideshields broke off. Had to be -15 or -20, tinted dark, with trifocals. He looked right at me and nodded hello and paid for gas without saying a word. He must see okay, he was driving.

Stan 16 Jan 2009, 18:27

Anybody catch the game show "Don't Forget the Lyrics" just now, featuring Penn & Teller? They pulled a nice looking blonde lady out of the audience, took her glasses away from her, put them in Penn's pocket, went through some distracting activities, then the glasses finally end up being on Teller's head inside a crash helment inside some kind of plaster cube. BS "magic" aside, the girl had a decent Rx, probably a good -5. I bet she was missing those glasses, especially being in a large unfamiliar room standing there with everybody staring at her while Penn makes comments about her glasses. I had no way to capture the video but maybe somebody will have it on youtube shortly. Pretty hot.

Phil 14 Jan 2009, 01:32

On my train in this morning was a forty-something blonde with significant minus lenses in nice brown plastic frames. But the best aspect was that they were clearly varifocals as I could see her reading her newspaper through only the bottom portion of the lenses. I don't think that there's a sexier look than that of a myopic gwg getting used to varifocals.

lentifan 13 Jan 2009, 15:18

Today in the main street I came up behind a well-dressed Asian lady ambling along with no apparent objective. My well-honed glasses antennae were alerted and she turned out to be wearing a pair of very strong plus lenses in a thin metal frame which was flattish on top and rounded at the bottom (if you follow me) so it showed the lens thickness very well along the top edge. They were very thick indeed. She seemed to be in her 40s - a very sexy look.

I couldn't politely get a good frontal view so carried on a hundred yards or so then turned back on myself to remedy this and - she'd gone!

Strongest plus lenses I've seen for quite a time. I do hope I see her again.

Slit 12 Jan 2009, 06:33

Had a dried up day without much of delicious sightings.... but as i wait in the bus for return home,

here comes a very simple looking girl, in very early 20s, probably after some college work...

She wore gold colour metal rimmed glasses with a low prescription according to my initial judgement. But she sits in the seat front of me and "Ah ha!" there is a different bend in the reflections in the right lens...

It was a porgressive bifocal with an add of abt +1.5 on top of -2 for distance vision.

I move a little bit to get a clear look at the other lens. Alas. Other is a SV -2!

This is the 2nd time i saw a bifocal being prescribed in only 1 eye. Have you guys / gals come across this before?

 10 Jan 2009, 10:09

last sunday i saw a fellow with tinted myodisk trifocals at the good will store in morristown tn. not the first time i saw him there but first i got a good look. i think he can see quite well he was driving a beat up old silver volvo. i see him around morristown a lot either in that old volvo or a big old blazer with a wood back window. cool guy i think but he never says much.

R Ed 10 Jan 2009, 09:05

A few years ago I was on an early am rather empty flight from NYC to Minneapolis after which the flight continued to Phoenix. A gwg across the aisle eyed me; I moved across to chat with her. Somehow the conversation turned to glasses. She said she normally wore CL's but that am just couldn't get them in, hence glasses with ~ - 5 lenses. I asked if they were high index. She didn't know but removed her glasses and handed them to me and asked if I could tell if they were hign index. I couldn't tell for sure but, due to the thin edges, said they probably were. She was delightful; I wish I could have continued to Phoenix with her but I had to exit at Minneapolis.

fred 10 Jan 2009, 08:28

Today something I always hope for finally happend today: I went to the hairdresser and found myself waiting for my turn together with a wonderfull gwg with quite considerable prescription (-7 or -8 I guess) nicely disguised by high index lenses and small frames. Of course at a certain point she had to take her glasses off. She squinted in a lovely way from time to time. At a certain point the hairdresser asked her if it was OK the way it was. "I can't really see myself" she answered and she put back her glasses. From that moment on they didn't come off anymore.

 30 Dec 2008, 09:49

This isn't a real sighting, but I had a dream I met one of the girls with myodisks from Russian's most recent album posting. ;)

Martin 30 Dec 2008, 09:39

On a flight to Scotland just before Xmas. It was unusually quiet for Ryanair, only half full, but contained some real quality GWG talent.

One significant plussie with beautiful big eyes and a lovely smile, one serious myope with lenses with a slight grey tint and big cut-in, worn with big rimless lenses one cm thick at the edges. She held the inflight magazine close to read.

Several low minus girls of all shapes and sizes - some real lookers!

A couple of plus teens, one with a large difference in thickness between lenses. The R was twice the thickness of the L.

When I got there, at the fromt of the welcoming committee was a large heavy lady in her 50's with myodisks.

Colin 30 Dec 2008, 09:29

Amazing one today. In a bedding store with herself to pick up a few items in the sales. Not a big shop, with several sales staff loitering or chatting. As I waited while the items were selected, I realised that every one of the eight girls and one fellow were bespectacled! Most were low minus, but one lady was quite a high minus with flashing glasses as she worked the till. The manageress was a plussie with heavy astigmatism, who kept pushing her glasses back up her nose as they slid. A couple of the girls were really nice looking.

One occasion when being towed round shopping was fun.

Mike L 30 Dec 2008, 09:23

Saw a post a few days ago about lots of glasses at Stansted airport in the UK.

I have one from CA. I was going thru SFO Saturday before holiday and literally every other girl was wearing glasses, even airline staff, store staff, trash can emptiers. I was so amazed, I stood outside my gate and counted passing ladies from late teen to 60 or so. The first hundred produced 47 GWG, the second 87 (before my flight was boarded) had 42.

When I got out at LAX, though, back to normal!

What was interesting was that it was a domestic pier mid day, so flights were not going to be long.

Melyssa 20 Dec 2008, 13:19

A TV sighting: The other day on "Judge Judy" -- I don't watch the show, I was flipping through the channels -- whenever the defendant was talking, the camera showed a young woman behind her in the first row wearing -- I had to check twice to make sure I was seeing right -- brown 1960s-style cat's-eyes. Yes, my second-favorite frame style, and hers looked just like my red ones.

aviator -oo- 20 Dec 2008, 11:32

Aviator frames seems to be making a small comeback in the world of sunglasses, but I am still waiting eagerly for these frames to become popular again for prescription lenses.

Clare 20 Dec 2008, 09:39

In an edgy urban-chic bar in the City (of London) last night I saw a young waitress, stylishly dressed and with the most enormous aviator frames with significant plus lenses. She was looking *very* retro and very comfortable with her look. I'm sure folks here would have taken note ;)

gwgs 10 Dec 2008, 01:07

Wow, what a sighting!

John 09 Dec 2008, 19:35

I had an almost incredible sighting at work yesterday. There is a young (~25), beautiful blond woman who has been working in my building for a couple years. She's very attractive from head to toe. Never saw her wearing glasses. Yesterday, she's walking behind me into the building. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice she's wearing glasses. I was able to delay a bit and she got onto the elevator with me, and (while I was trying not to stare) I noticed a lot of power-rings -- an Rx around -7 or -8. I wish I had complemented her on them, though I have a feeling she is self-conscious about them.

Henry 05 Dec 2008, 12:11

The day before yesterday I dated Maira for dinner :-)!

I was really happy to manage asking her for this dinner date. I did and she wasn't picky at all ! I don't want to tell all facts of the evening (just a dinner date) but she herself began to talk about her eyes - she had a kind of eye cancer when she was 17 and the eye had to be removed and since then she has to wear an "artificial eye" as she said. Her "healthy eye was weak rfrom childhood on and when I asked how much she is able to see, she answered that with RX glasses she is even able to drive. I didn't ask about the RX but I estimate it's about -15 to -18

It was a really nice evening

Martyn 04 Dec 2008, 17:41

Hi Rebbull, are you the guy taht lives in Kent, your parter wears plus glasses and hearing aids, hows your American friend still going strong.

How are you hope life is treating you well, before you were a very busy guy, you had your photo shoot on Yahoo, If your the person I think you are please get in touch Martyn

Rebbull1 04 Dec 2008, 10:03

Just seen a young lady today about 30 years old wearing high plus trifocals , Reading section look at least plus 9 and rimless and very thick

Highmyope 04 Dec 2008, 02:30

What's really intriguing is how high rxs--formerly hidden at all costs--now seem to be no source of shame at all as long as they're fitted into a big black rectangular frame.....

Aubrac 04 Dec 2008, 00:47

Rebbul1

Yes, I certainly agree. A lot of young girls are now wearing low minus/astigmatism correction. Maybe because frames are part of a fashion accessory and so they don't mind, also they see more celebs wearing glasses.

The number of young plus wearers seems to have increased. Maybe again, the choice of nice frames available, and increased use of computers, small text print on phones, etc, may have helped this.

I spend a lot of time at airports where possibly due to contact lens dryness on flights, people prefer glasses. However yesterday coming home from Stanstead UK, almost every other girl was wearing glasses, many lovely frames and lenses.

May the upward trend continue. Anyone know if there are any actual statistics on eye exams and glasses wearers?

Rebbul1 04 Dec 2008, 00:00

Life just gets better in UK.

More girls seem to be dumping their contact lens and going over to wearing glasses.

First time wearers seem to go straight to full time wearers.

Lots more girls are wearing high prescriptions.

Modern frame seem to make lens thicker.

Lots and lots of young girls now wear strong PLUS lens full time.

Also I have started seeing younger women wearing D28 bifocals.

Mister Mild 03 Dec 2008, 02:36

Philosifer: I too am starting to notice a real increase in numbers of GWGs in countries I hadn't visited for a few years. Must have something to do with changing lifestyles, computer usage, etc.

When I got back to Russia recently after two years, eagerly awaiting a feast of GWGs, I didn't spy so many... but one real beauty amidst the commuters in Moscow. An attractive young brunette in her twenties, slim, very long hair tied back with a ribbon, wine-red cats-eye plastic frames with a VERY high minus, maybe mid-teens. She walked briskly and confidently, her vision apparently well-corrected. I caught sight of the unusual lens thickness from behind, watched the lenses flash as she broke step to climb into a commuter van and take a seat.

Russian: if ever you spend time around Kievskaya Metro, you might see her there...

Aubrac 03 Dec 2008, 01:01

Don't usually report on sightings but the other day a girl, about 19/20 years old, was standing behind me in the cash machine queue.

At first glance I thought her quite thick lenses, in a small frame, were plus. But on a second look I realised they were a minus but with the power rings at the top and bottom of the lens, not at the sides.

What would cause this? Could it be a very high amount of astigmatism. Unfortunately she was behind me and I could only get a few looks by turning round when she did.

Any ides about the prescription?

Philosifer 03 Dec 2008, 00:44

One for the books this morning. Back in Ghana for the first time in about 20 years, and was getting the impression that there had been a huge increase in the fraction of the population (particularly women) wearing glasses.

Then this morning, over breakfast at the Golden Tulip hotel, there was a big champagne birthday party going on.

Twenty women sitting at that long table, and only four were NOT wearing glasses ! Nothing spectacular in terms of prescriptions, in fact many looked so low in strength, I got the impression that a lot of them were there primarily for show - not see.

But, hey, who cares, for an OO it was a great spectacle !

eh 02 Dec 2008, 07:51

I noticed the thickness discrepancy; I didn't think hyperopic/convex lenses traditionally look like that.

In any case, it's still a very nice scene.

Posh 02 Dec 2008, 07:47

Astra, that's interesting. Do you think your friend could cope well before getting glasses that strong?

Astra 28 Nov 2008, 09:08

A friend of mine gets her first prescription glasses just a week ago. While I first thought the prescription could be somewhere on -2 range (I thought most started wearing glasses full-time at this range), she told me it is actually -3.75/-4, and I started to examine her glasses. Her glasses has a simple black, rectangular plastic frame. The frame is relatively thicker on the side so it does not look particularly strong, but the power rings are really significant when seen by its side. She does look like the stereotypical librarian with such power rings, and it is not surprising that she couldn't recognise faces at moderate distances without glasses. Obviously, she did not realise that she needs glasses until recently as she is really a book nerd, who don't care virtually anything (even her friends) except books. until she can't even figure out the words on the books clearly.

gwgs 27 Nov 2008, 08:50

Steven - what a moment, I am extremely envious of you! I think I would have needed a cold shower after that!

oscar 24 Nov 2008, 04:14

Steven - what a lovely moment :)

Steven 24 Nov 2008, 04:01

We had friends for dinner yesterday. She is a full-time glasses wearer and I always fantasized about her and her glasses, which are rimless with an approximately minus five prescription I’d guess.

After the lively dinner my wife and her husband cleared up the garden and terrace while I did the dishes with her. To protect her hands from the washing-up liquid and hot water she put on some plastic gloves. She opened the hot water tap and filled up the kitchen sink with boiling hot water. As soon she started washing the first cooking pan, her lenses fully steamed up! She turned round, faced me, and laughingly exclaimed that she couldn’t see anything, and asked me to help her as her gloves were drenched with dishwater. She probably thought I’d help her remove her gloves, but I put down my dish towel and seized my chance: I said “don’t move” and I very gently removed her glasses with two hands. , and started to very slowly wipe the lenses with a clean tea towel. A great chance to examine her glasses; I noticed that the right lens was a bit thicker than the left one and thought the glasses were pretty heavy. They felt extremely solid, no “plastic feel”. I also cleaned the temples of her glasses, had a last very good look through the lenses while pointing them to the ceiling lamps “to make sure your lenses are spotless”, and I finally very carefully put on her glasses again as she closed her eyes while I did so. She opened her eyes, adjusted the glasses, looked around, and cheerily exclaimed “ thank you now I can see again! my husband never did this for me, I’ll come back to you!”.

OnLooker 23 Nov 2008, 23:27

A very exciting sighting yesterday at friends' house this lady, 35ish, was wearing rather thick minus glasses which, from the power rings and minification, i valued at -8 or so. The cherry on the cake was when she had to clean her lense and classically had a squint and brought the glasses closer to her right eye, the better one i guess... I had a wonderful time watching the thickness of the lenses...

lentifan 21 Nov 2008, 12:44

Odd how details come back into the memory. I remember now that I was looking through the plano lens of this girls glasses and thought it looked surprisingly grubby. This was confirmed some time later when I saw her take off her glasses and wipe the plus lens (for her good eye) only!

lentifan 20 Nov 2008, 16:40

Henry's post about Maira triggered off a memory for me. When I was a callow schoolboy I briefly dated a tiny very sweet girl who was blind in one eye. However, it was still her natural eye, not a prosthetic. She had had some brain surgery which had severed the optic nerve, I think.

Her glasses had a mild but noticeable (to me, anyway) plus lens for her good eye but a plano lens for the other. This struck me at the time as a bit odd, but I was too shy to ask her why. The 1960s were a less prosperous age - perhaps economy.

Her mother and sister wore glasses with quite strong plus lenses, I remember.

lentifan 19 Nov 2008, 12:02

Maira sounds very sweet, Henry, and we are all envious. We wish you good luck with the relationaship.

If the subject comes up, will you pretend you didn't notice her prosthetic eye?

Slit 19 Nov 2008, 02:45

Hi,

The name glassy eyes sounds familiar to me.

Is she the owner of:

http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com/search/label/glasses%20stories

or is she someone you met on blogspot or some other site?

Please post a link to her website.

thanks!

slit

henry 18 Nov 2008, 11:15

Glasseye girl's name is Maira and she is a student/ aupair from NewZealand. We had a nice conversation even if she was really shy in the beginning. She is much younger (ooops) than I thought, 26 and is studiing french in Auckland ut lives in Paris for 7 more months. She's on the train only two days a week BUT !!! I got her phone number... I really like her and knowing that she has to wear these strong glasses and prosthetic eye makes her so much more attractive than any other in the moment.

lentifan 10 Nov 2008, 12:43

I once worked on an assignment for a week or two where one of the staff was a sweet girl who wore low minus glasses and a prosthetic eye. I thought she was quite attractive. Although the prosthetic eye was not very convinvcing (perhaps her injury had been serious) as it really didn't move in synch with the other, or at all,much.

Next time I came back she wasn't wearing glasses at all - presumably a contact lens - and, in my opinion, didn't look at all attractive. The difference between the two eyes was very marked and the prosthetic eye very obvious indeed. I found it slightly unnerving.

An extreme case of a common phenomenon; ladies quite mistakenly thinking they look better without their glasses.

guest henry 10 Nov 2008, 11:22

waited for the oneeyed gwg today - but she didn't come - maybe tommorow :-(

I really would like to meet her, it's fascinating to me that she wears a glass eye - found out that this is very attractive for me - pretty strange and new but I like it ! Did anybody of you know a woman who had to wear a glass eye?

Henry

Menthe 10 Nov 2008, 10:44

Does anyone here live near Winchester in England? I have a tip for any keen watchers of gwg waitresses.

guest  09 Nov 2008, 08:17

a really interesting sighting from Paris underground yesterday :

a pretty nice looking woman (mid 30ies) with really strong myopic glasses (I'd say at least -18 or more, small metal frames with HighIndex plano front) seated right in front of me. I recogniezed that she had a vision problem with her left eye. It looked strange but I didn't want to embarass her by starring at her glasses. I wasn't in a hurry and stood longer in the train than needed and so I spotted that she wore a prosthetic eye on the left side. It was pretty obvious because she turned her head much more to look around and when her right eye moved her left didn't at all!

Her vision with the right eye seemed okay with her correction - she read a newspaper and didn't seem to feel uncomfortable with her situation. I guess lens of the left side was only done in the same prescription for cosmetical issues. I don't know if I could cope with having a glass eye AND pretty thick glasses as she did.

I hope to see her again - I think she's working somewhere close to the station she left.

-5.00 who luvs gwgs 31 Oct 2008, 07:44

Best recent sighting yesterday a Chinese girl at Victoria station she was 20 something from 20 yards away spotted that unmistakeable glint of a plano fronted lens up closer serious power rings and a thickness of more than half an inch even though she had small oval gold frames she must have been -18.00 what a gorgeous GWG at least 10 out of 10 on the scale of GWG pulchritude I am in love !!!!

Phil 28 Oct 2008, 11:09

The roads are a great place for glasses spotting. Unusually I drove to work today.

I filled up with petrol next to a gorgeous young blonde gwg. She had fantastic black oval plastic frames and low minus lenses. When she got back into her car she pushed them up into her hair to allow herself to apply some make-up.

I subsequently spotted three other low-minus gwg drivers, one with a very lovely "light" pair made of clear plastic.

A good start to the day. I did wonder whether the bright weather had caused the girls to don their glasses. Everything seems so crisp with full distance correction on a bright autumn morning.

BillyE 28 Oct 2008, 10:31

Was sat at a roundabout today. Whilst we were there the guy in the car in the next lane decided to take his glasses off, which was a worry. He was 60+, so I don't know if he'd realised he'd got his reading glasses on or if he'd decided he was close enough to his destination that he thought he could do without his distance glasses.

glassesforeveryone 28 Oct 2008, 09:40

gwgs - it was her only redeeming feature. At least now I can admit she's pretty annoying! She really pushed lasik too, stating that it doesn't hurt etc etc.

I was gutted. That said, she looked quite good without her glasses.

gwgs 28 Oct 2008, 09:18

glassesforeveryone; funny that Anastasia has had Lasik as she always made out that she had a medical predicament that cannot be cured. Because of this she has to wear tinted lenses all the time to shield her eyes from bright lights.

She always used to rant on about how many pairs of glasses she collects, funny how things change isn't it!?

glassesforeveryone 28 Oct 2008, 01:52

Anastasia was on the TV this morning in England. She was promoting her new album but the presenters made a massive deal about the fact that she was no-longer wearing glassses.

Yes, the dreaded Lasik. Another one bites the dust.

specs4ever 25 Oct 2008, 22:51

I was in a restaurant in a L.A suburb last weekend when I spotted a lady wearing glasses. As she drew closer to my table I noticed the reflections, and the cut in of a fairly strong minus lens. I got up, and walked past her on my way to the restroom. As I got closer I recognized this lady as one who's pictures have been linked here, and are on both Micha's and another Fokti web page. This was a most interesting experience. And, she looks very nice in real life.

shortsight 21 Oct 2008, 18:58

Went to a family function and was intiduced to a cousins friend. Beautiful women with lots of cut in on tinted lenses. Really wish the would never invented thin lenses, she must be atleast a minus 12.

Phil 20 Oct 2008, 06:05

Went with She Who Must Be Obeyed to a film last night. In the row ahead there was a group of four women (20ish to 40 ish), obviously related to each other, and all wearing glasses. They were all myopes and each had nice frames. One had purple plastic, another blue plastic with wide sides, a third had black metal with wide sides and the last had oval black plastic. Two had long hair, and one a nice ponytail. They were all in the -2 to -4 range and, though none was beautiful, they were all attractive. Needless to say, the film gained only a limited amount of my attention. What a family to marry into!

gwgs 15 Oct 2008, 01:02

Mike, what an amazing sighting, must have kept you thinking about them for a while!

OnLooker 14 Oct 2008, 10:21

Very interesting sighting during a business meeting a marketing director was a wonderful full figured lady, 45ish, rather pretty, getting ready for a presentation she was struggling with the laptop to get the power point to show on the screen doing so she was squinting hard at the laptop as well as the screen. Then at some point looking at the laptop screen she tilted her head back still squinting, showing that she may also be presbyopic. She was obviously nearsighted.Excitement went further when she suddenly wore her waht seemed to be sun glasses to look at the screen on the other side of the room (5 m away), she then put them down on the table and i had a look into the lenses, they were tinted prescription lenses. As i could see them, they seemed to be around -3ish or so, but it was difficult to be sure. It's obvious that i haven't heard a thing of what she was saying as i was rather watching her exciting squinting game and her full mature figures imagining her with her normal prescritpion glasses.... She did make my day...

Mike L 10 Oct 2008, 20:54

Went to a Malaysian restaurant tonight and my lovely meal was made even better by the large number of seriously myopic GWGs present.

At the next table to the one I was assigned, sat sisters - very similar looking with similar heavy rectangular plastic frames with modern broad sideframes. One in patterened black, the other in tortoiseshell. RX? Both over -10 as the cut-in and power rings were amazing.

Two servers also wore very similar glasses and a third wore small gold metal rectangular ones with over 1/4in lens visible at the side.

Then jackpot - at the empty table opposite me were shown 4 GWGs. All serious myopes. Certainly the two opposite me were well in double figures, the cut-in seemed to come half way across the outside of the lens. Both held the menu which was not in small print right up to their eyes, not so sure about the two with thier backs to me. At a stage before the food arrived, one took off her glasses and cleaned them on the napkin. She then obviously asked her friend if they were clean as they were passed over looked at, the lense licked and then handed back to be re-wiped and replaced.

Pity the service was very quick and the place was full so I had to leave. As I passed, all of their lenses stuck out well forward of heavy pplastic or double metal frames.

gwgs 09 Oct 2008, 02:27

I have the extreme fortune of meeting a hot hot gwg in Harrods over the weekend, she was working in the kids department and was probably no older than 28-30 with dark skin and black hair and a great body to match. She had thick Dior glasses with wide arms and a decent prescription to match - must have been around -8, the power rings drove me mad after only a few seconds!

I have been thinking about her ever since!

SZ6 02 Oct 2008, 14:35

I had the unfortunate "pleasure" of spending the last two days in a small, hot meeting room discussing dry project plans. The meetings were made MUCH better by the presence of an amazing GWG. She was a late-30s, attractive, petite Asian woman. She would have been nice looking without glasses; with them, she was ridiculously distracting.

She wore smallish, slightly cateyed brown-and-blue plastic rectangles. Her prescription was probably somewhere between -14 and -18. I was across the room from her for most of the meetings, so I got pretty good views of the massive minifying power of her lenses. Her eyes, which were actually quite large when you were able to see them directly, looked tiny and lost in a sea of white rings. Late in the meeting, she stood to discuss some items being shown on the projector. Then, I was able to get a great view of her lenses. They jutted out at least a quarter-inch behind the frames, making their total thickness close to half an inch. The edges were unpolished. When she looked down at her Blackberry, I was clearly able to see white lens edges sticking out from the frames from across the room.

Unfortunately, I won't be working with her very directly on this project... but she was a lovely diversion for the last two days!

Phil 17 Sep 2008, 07:04

I once took my mother to casualty at the local hospital: she had injured her leg while staying with me. She was attended to by a gorgeous myopic gwg nurse who clearly needed stronger lenses. Every time she looked across the room at the clock she screwed her eyes up so sexily. I shall never forget her!

Puffin 17 Sep 2008, 04:46

I'm into that too at the moment.

Socks 16 Sep 2008, 23:21

The HOTTEST thing is seeing a girl squinting with her already strong glasses ON! Rare, but when you see it, you never forget it!

Tom 16 Sep 2008, 03:15

Squinting Fan: I totally agree with you, the hottest thing to spot is probably a girl or woman you know she doesn't see well but without her glasses on (and without contacts, obviously). The "going without glasses" forum can be a good point to discuss stories like this and to speak with the protagonists (I mean: poor vision people doing without their glasses)! Bye.

Squinting Fan 04 Sep 2008, 15:21

Tom: There is nothing sexier to me than catching a woman without her glasses squinting! Everytime I see it, just drives me wild. There should be another section to this site for people who love girls who don't wear their glasses or just need them.

Tom 04 Sep 2008, 01:31

Interesting sighting during holidays. I went to the same hotel that last year and meet again a very nice girl in her mid teens, with long dark hair. One evening one from the staff was showing us some pictures, projected on a screen with the PC. I noticed her strongly squinting to the screen although she was sit quite close to it, so realising she is definitely nearsighted. I'll be dreaming for the whole winter to see her again next year (if I decide to go to that hotel again) with an increased nearsightedness and (hopefully) glasses on, at least once to guess her prescription! Than, if she decided to squint for the rest of time.. well, it's even better for me to see!

VFL 23 Aug 2008, 09:12

OMG! Grocery store...produce aisle...

tall, well-built man blocking aisle. His back is to me, he turns...black wire rimmed rectangular frames, tall, dark, handsome and he gives me this killer smile and starts to chat me up!

Life is really, really good. He thought I was cute! Well, he didn't say, but I knew from the way he tried to start up a conversation and looked at me (through those minifiying lenses...). I thought he was really, really cute.

If they follow me home can I keep them?

Rebecca 14 Aug 2008, 03:07

to Adalle

I wear cls nearly full time, but I never sleep with them on!

It's dangerous and it's most possible to lose them, because eyes can become very dry!

I hope that she never lost them...you don't know?

Bye!

Adalle 13 Aug 2008, 16:45

I knew already that she always wore contacts. After all with her prescription it would be impossible not to. But I had never seen her with her glasses on. As I know, she despises the cut-in effect of the lenses (she had told us that a long time ago) and she is a woman that cares very much about her looks. As I see it, she has totally ruled out full-time wearing of glasses. She even sleeps with her contacts on sometimes, as she has said.

Rebecca 13 Aug 2008, 07:17

to Adalle

You think that the girl of friendly couple wore cls during the day?

And you think also that she's conscious about glasses?

Adalle 13 Aug 2008, 07:09

A few days ago I got back from a one week vacation with my girlfriend and a friendly couple. I had a lot of surprises and some sightings during this vacation. First of all I should say my girlfriend loves wearing her glasses and knows I like to see her wearing them.

The first surprise was when we reached at the hotel. My girlfriend said she had decided not to bring her contacts with her because she believed she didn¢t need them. After all, lately she only puts them on like 3 times a month or so. So during the whole vacation she always wore her glasses. Also she brought her spare pair with her, which she used a couple of times. Another surprise was that she kept her glasses on during sex almost all the times, even letting me put them on sometimes! Although her prescription is only -2, the feeling was great!

The next surprise was from the woman of the friendly couple that was with us. They had the room next to us and the balconies had a low wall, so we were able to see each other when we sat at the balcony. The first morning, right after we woke up, I was amazed to see the woman wearing small oval plastic frames with at least a -7 prescription. She only had them on during morning or night and those times I was always with my girlfriend and I couldn¢t catch a conversation about the glasses.

Furthermore a girl at the hotel who was helping at the breakfast buffet was wearing large red thick frames with a prescription of -5 more or so. They suited her just perfect.

Finally, when we were leaving the hotel my girlfriend put her spare pair of glasses in my bag by mistake and forgot about them till the day after we came back. “Sadly” she had to go to her parents¢ house for a few days, so the spare pair is in my hands until then. Needless to say I keep putting them on and off...

sg 13 Aug 2008, 06:14

maybe her helmet had prescription

Galileo 13 Aug 2008, 05:25

I still cannot believe I saw this;

I was shopping in a store and at the checkout. Next to me an attractive young woman who was paying. she had rectangular rimless glasses with good edge thickness, plano fronts and plenty of powerrings. I was admiring the cut in and the rest of her and speculating that she was maybe -6 maybe higher.

She left and I paid for my purchases. As I walked out of the store I saw she was still there loading her purchases on her motorbike. I paused to watch and she took off her glasses and hooked them into the front of her blouse as she put on her helmet. Then she zipped up her jacket and drove off WITHOUT PUTTING HER GLASSES BACK ON.

I have no idea how she managed, her prescription was definitely substantial and she needed her glasses to shop, but not to drive??

I still cannot believe I saw that!!

new guy 12 Aug 2008, 18:31

Almost a year ago I saw the most extreme glasses, on a not so great girl. I was at a hardware store and saw her working the checkout, long dark hair and thin and short. the woman was so thin and frail looking I could not guess her age, maybe 45 maybe 55? Her glasses however were HUGE 80's style covered her whole face, I think -15 or even higher. I went there this past friday she was still working there, and her phone rang while checking me out so I got to look at her specs extra long. I flirted with her even though it was the glasses I liked. Nice to know an extremely nearsighted person.

JJwGlaSSeS 12 Aug 2008, 11:05

i like to know gwg all over the world, my mail juanjop_6@hotmail.com

Brett 11 Aug 2008, 21:59

Slit, thanks for the encouraging post. We've talked on the phone more, and definitely more personal now. Right now our schedules don't quite mesh. I'm on graves (my department works 4 10 hr shifts) Wed-Sat 2100-0700; she's on 8-hr shifts assigned to day shift 0700-1500 with Mondays and Tuesdays off. We've talked a few times but Sunday was the first time we'd hung out again. She invited me to a BBQ at her apartment that she shares with 1 female roommate, who is engaged to a Volunteer Fire Fighter that I kind of know. When I arrived she had just got home from work, and wasn't wearing her glasses, but they were sitting by her purse telling me she had at work. Her roommate wasn't expecting me and was still in pajamas at 4PM and about -3 brown and green plastic glasses; she quickly excused herself and emerged changed and presumably wearing contacts. Tomorrow we're going bowling, and to be honest, I don't care if she's wearing glasses or not, obviously I'd prefer it.

pete 10 Aug 2008, 10:38

Well, I finally saw a surfer girl wearing glasses! I was changing out (we wear wetsuits here in Northern California) when I see a shortboarder walking back to her car from the beach. This is only the 2nd time I've seen anybody who has surfed with glasses/goggles on though not unusual to see surfers donning glasses before or after a session. (A cute GWG in a wetsuit is quite appealing.) Her glasses were heavy black frames strapped around her head - couldn't make out the rx. The surfer was rather heavy herself. I would have investigated further if she had been, you know, more attractive.

You can imagine that most surfers who need vision correction wear contacts. About 3 years ago I was surfing with a quite attractive redhead who was telling me she packed a backup pair of contacts in her wetsuit. A few months later I was at her place and while in the bathroom nosy me was looking around for her glasses. I spotted them in a basket above the commode . . . beautiful small framed slightly cat-eyed tortoise shell glasses with hefty bulging lenses - my guess would be in the minus mid-teens. It bothered me for sometime that I might have refolded the arms backwards; left prints on the frames; replaced the glasses incorrectly in their case or the case placed wrong in the basket. I could care less now - we weren't the least bit compatible.

Slit 10 Aug 2008, 01:48

Re: Brets posting.

Bret, you ARE a lucky man! To meet a girl whom you flirted with and lately to find out she is a GWG!

Best is that she opens up about it on the first outing!

So happy for you bro, keep us posted of what happens about her and her glasses.

:-)

Fred 09 Aug 2008, 09:04

Traveling can be a nice opportunity to spot some GWG's. The other day I was on an intercontinental night flight, and one row in front of me, opposite of the aisle sat a women well in her forties (I think) but definately good looking, wearing a very nice pair of rimless glasses of about -4 or so (they seemed to have flat fronts, but from the power rings and the cut-in it was obvious that her prescription did not exceed -4 or -5). Initially, she was reading full time, but all of a sudden I realised that her glasses were gone. A while later I saw she was reading some little piece of paper, perhaps a boarding pass or something, which reasonably close to her eyes. Then she looked around in the cabin a bit (without squinting) and then tried to get some sleep. She remained bare eyed till the last hour before landing. I saw her getting her glasses case out of her jacket and taking her glasses out of it. After a little bit of cleaning she put them on to go to the restrooms. Unfortunately, the rest of the flight they stayed on her nose...

Brett 08 Aug 2008, 19:17

One of our dispatchers has just a very attractive voices, she's been dispatching for us for about a year and half. It's a multi-agency dispatch/911 center that is centrally located , so it's not in the building where I work out of nor do I usually have a reason to go there. So up until 3 weeks ago I'd only ever seen a picture of her. But we have had fun working together over the radio and talking on phone. It was kind of flirtatious nothing unprofessional but definitely more than with a lot of our radio operators. And she's dispatched some hard calls for me-- one of her first nights I chased a stolen car, ended up in a foot chase, fight, and came close to being a shooting. And when I promoted to corporal in June she sent me a card, which was highly unorthodox, and I thanked her on the phone. But I'd never met her in person. Then 3 weeks ago I was in our records division and heard her voice, and turned around, and kind of recognized her from her picture, and she smiled big and said "Hi Brett" -I still am not sure how she knew it was me. The best part was unlike her picture, she was wearing glasses, nice conservative semi-rimless with black arms. And she came up and hugged me. We talked about 20 minutes, and I couldn't resist it I asked her out. She said yes, and we had dinner last night. What surprised me while we were looking over the menus she said that she'd just gotten her new glasses and wasn't sure if she liked them yet, because her old glasses had defined areas of where to look to read and see far away, and her new ones were hard to get the right spot. I was secretly surprised that she appears to wear progressives, since she's a few years younger than me-- I'm 26, she's 23. Maybe all the computer/close work of dispatching? Her lenses appeared to be mild plus. I did tell her I thought she looked great, she asked if she looked as good as I imagined, and I said better. It was what I assume meeting a person in person that you have met online. We know each other kind of, but still a lot left to learn.

Karen X 08 Aug 2008, 11:09

The newish receptionist (early 30s, quite good looking with fair/blond hair) at my dentists was wearing gold slightly rectangular metal frames with mild plus lenses. Probably only reading glasses but as she spent the few minutes I saw her behind her desk I didn't see her get up or take her glasses off. She kept them on to speak to patients. As my teeth are in good condition I won't be going back for another 6 months! I'm certainly not going to wait outside the surgery at closing time to see if she's still wearing her glasses!

Another sighting was a woman at work, again early 30s or possibly late 20s with very dark hair and very attractive (just the sort I would go for if she wasn't staight!). I saw her wearing glasses for the first time a few weeks ago, but only briefly. Then a couple of weeks ago I got quite a good look face on and the lenses were fairly strong plus (made her eyes quite big) in chunky black designer frames with wide arms at the hinges which narrowed towards the ears. A few days ago she was walking down a corridor wearing them but she looked over them and then back through them a few times as if to compare her sight with and without glasses. Then this morning I saw her in the staff car park and she was wearing her glasses for driving. She kept them on as she came into the building but she must have taken them off during the morning as she wasn't wearing them when I next saw her at lunchtime. I then didn't see her until it was time to go home. She had her glasses in her hand and then put them on as she walked to her car and drove off.

I'm no expert at guessing prescriptions but going by more expert guesses on photos posted to Eyescene I'd say she was at least +3 or +4 and has recently noticed that she can see better with her glasses a lot further than the computer screen in front of her and probably further than without glasses at all! I'm wondering if she's on the verge of going full time. She seems to be resisting it at the moment but the day can't be far away that she wears her glasses for driving to work and decides not to take them off as she needs them for work anyway. She then doesn't bother, or forgets, to take them off at lunchtime and then wears them for the rest of the day nad to drive home. Once she's done that a few times she'll probably start to wear them more out of work (hopefully!). We've got a staff party at the end of the month - I'd love to see her wearing her glasses there.

Gino 07 Aug 2008, 15:16

At the beach past weekend, spotted 3 ladies (late thirties I guess) in bikinis arriving together and spreading their towels next to each other. One in rimless frames with a very mild prescription, the other one with lovely thin red plastic frames and a visible power rings, the 3rd one no glasses.

They lay on their stomach next to each other, chit-chatting and looking around. At one moment in time, the first one pointed out to something in the sea, and the third one squinted real hard trying to see what her friend was pointing at. At couldn't hear what they said, but the first one took off her specs and gave them to her friend. This was the sign for all three to try on each other's glasses, taking them off and having a close look through the lenses in different directions. The one who arrived at the beach with no glasses ended up wearing the stronger red frames for about 30min without taking them off!

Needless to say I lay on my stomach also and did not move...

-5.00 who luvs gwgs 07 Aug 2008, 14:46

A few nice sightings on my Mediterranean hols a 30 something mother with small oval tortoiseshells serious prescription about -15.00 I saw her more than once including similar frames with a sunglass tint even so you could see thickness and power rings a plain Jane but of course the glasses made her pretty desirable but the best was a red bikini girl with matching rectangular frames i guess -7.00 or -8.00 lovely glint and power rings and she wore these to the beach

pete 06 Aug 2008, 18:16

lentifan

yep. It does take the right small frame, an extreme minus rx and a lower index lens to make that happen.

Someone here described the effect as: "Her eyes looked like two tiny fishes stuck in ice cubes..."

lentifan 06 Aug 2008, 15:06

Yes, just like ice cubes, Pete. A very attractive effect. It needs a strong minus Rx and small thin rectangular frames, all of which appeal to me.

Roger 06 Aug 2008, 13:54

Trend of large frames is continuing!

Very tall 18yr old, wearing very large circular black plastic frames with good minus prescription, showing both in front / behind heavy plastic frame.

Also 30 something with large tortoiseshell plastic frames with double bridge and small minus prescription.

pete 04 Aug 2008, 21:54

lentifan

Like ice cube shape?

My ex moved her head around like that. I always saw it as 'lining up the cross hairs'.

lentifan 04 Aug 2008, 16:45

A slightly harassed mother of two young children in a supermarket today. She was quite unremarkable - indeed a little pear shaped - except for her glasses. They were small rectangular silver metal frames with quite deiciously strong minus lenses.

Her lenses were shallow, so that the considerable thickness at the outside edges almost (but not quite)equalled the depth to make a square section.

I was interested that she seemed to be bobbing her head around a lot as she scanned the shelves (while trying to keep her two children in order), almost as though she were wearing plus lenses. I wondered whether this was simply due to her small lenses, or whether there was distortion through the thick outside part of the lenses. I'd say she was at least -20.

If only I could have swopped eyes with her!

chrisB 02 Aug 2008, 13:58

WRT last post -

her age was in her mid 20s. I would guess her RX to be at least -5.

ChrisB 02 Aug 2008, 13:56

for the past 3 years one of my offspring has spent a week on an arts summerschool programme. Last year, one of the tutors was a lovely GWG, very tall with quite a strong RX. This year she was back again with new frames and definately an increased prescription. I would guess she's in her mid 20s. There's a significant amount of minimisation but the square frames suit her face really well.

Transfixed as I might be by a such an attractive GWG, I could not keep my eyes off her this week. As the week progressed it was very clear that she was returning my admiring smiles each time we passed in the corridor or sat across the lunch table.

The course closed on friday afternoon and as goodbyes were being said, she and I caught each others gaze for some time. Or, was I imagining it?

I would love to have deployed any one of my chatup lines - "your glasses look really great". "those glasses really suit you" etc etc. Somehow, I didnt take the opportunity. Anyway she was less than half my age and I should have known better.

I report this more in sorrow than anything for an opportunity lost.

JB 27 Jul 2008, 23:52

We had some friends over for a BBQ yesterday, The girlfriend of one had just got glasses the previous day,her first pair, they were stunning...fairly mild, about - 1 / -2 but the frames were amazing,med to large blue and red plastic and the temples were a thin metal in silver. Reminded of the styles of the 80s

Zorab 27 Jul 2008, 15:59

Does anyone see the TV programme 'Sexetera'? There appears to be a blond gwg who is seen briefly in the studio/office (as opposed to the reports on location). I think she wears large metal frames but, I've only seen brief glimpses of her.

Guest 27 Jul 2008, 13:25

Aubrac

If she is +2 I guess she could cope with the demands. -2 might have been more difficult.

Aubrac 27 Jul 2008, 10:36

Just watched programme on BBC TV 'Cash in the attic'.

The ex-newspresenter, Angelka Rippon, was on. For searching around the peoples house for iterms to sell and raise cash, also when seen arriviny walking down the street, she was wearing a pair of quite heavt black plastic frames with about +2/+2.5.

At the end of the programme when the items are auctioned, she appeared at the auction sale sans glasses, and was looking ok at distance and reading. Maybe she has contacts?

Melyssa 27 Jul 2008, 09:01

Thanks for the info, Roger. The UK is so much more advanced in fashion than the good old U.S. of A. At the rate of one year per time zone, drop-temples should reach my area in 2027. LOL

Roger 27 Jul 2008, 07:22

1) Train from Waterloo, London.

2) City of London.

Melyssa 26 Jul 2008, 11:32

It wasn't me, but I would certainly love to have my favorite frames come back so I can add to my current collection. Where did this sighting occur?

ehpc 26 Jul 2008, 05:01

Let's hope so:) Huge 1980s glasses with minus lenses are the best glasses ever:) Pete

Roger 26 Jul 2008, 03:55

I wonder if I am seeing the start of a new trend?

Last week, on the train, I saw a lady in her 50s wearing large 1980 style tortoiseshell frames with a significant minus prescription. They must have been over 2" square with rounded corners and drop temples. Saw her again yesterday close up, and the frames are brand new!

Also yesterday saw a girl in her 20s and wearing new oversize frames in black plastic with gold sideframes, with a slight plus prescription

Puffin 25 Jul 2008, 08:16

Just seen on an otherwise unremarkable middleaged woman, probably the widest sides to glasses I've ever seen. Black frames, weak RX, but the sides were at about 3/4 inch deep or more, with white thick horizontal stripes.

Galileo 24 Jul 2008, 08:02

My lucky day today! Cycling along a busy street in rush hour on my way to give presentation and found myself at a set of traffic lights between two asian girls both on bicycles and both wearing glasses. They were together and I was between them. They both smiled at me which is when I saw the power rings and cut in - both of them must have been minus 12 or more. Both were wearing modern rectangular frames, one in bright red plastic and the other in satin finish metal.

I had just about got over that when a young woman sitting in the second row of the group I was presenting to who was wearing similar frames but in emerald green and with a Rx of about minus 8 slowly took her glasses off and looked at me with that soft focus bleary eyed look myopes have. I almost lost my thread!

 20 Jul 2008, 12:04

Visited the optician today, the girl before me in the queue waiting to get her eyes checked was wearing metal frames. When she looked at me I was delighted to see her big magnified eyes.

The optician came out and asked her to wait without her glasses, so she took them off and sat there staring with a blank look.

After her test, she had a conversation with the optician. A clerk came by and asked "what is her prescription?" "+6 the optician answered, +7 in her left eye." She said, "doctor, these glasses are good for seeing at a distance; for driving, but I'm having trouble reading with them. I have to hold the book far away." And she made a gesture, as if distancing a book from her. "How old are you?" asked the opticuan. "32" she said. "So you should manage." he answered coldly. She grimaced and went away.

Gino 14 Jul 2008, 15:30

Yesterday my girlfriend stepped out of the shower, immediately put on her glasses and then got a phone call. She didn't bother to dress first and as a consequence she walked around the bathroom and sleeping room during the whole 10min call with nothing on except for her glasses and a pair of in-house slippers!

Puffin 09 Jul 2008, 17:45

You kind of learn to take it all in at a glance... to avoid the leering problem.

r.o. 09 Jul 2008, 16:25

Maybe she was preying you'd not leer at her, perv.

Phil 09 Jul 2008, 03:21

I sat next to a most gorgeous creature on the train into work this morning.

She was tall and slim with lovely long dark hair and was incredibly pretty. After she sat down she opened her bag. I peeped in imaging how wonderful it would be if it contained a spec case. Lo and behold, after bringing out a tissue a black designer case was revealed. She opened it and brought out the most beautiful pair of heavy black square frames and put them on. She looked utterly stunning in them. I think that they were a low minus as, although she put them on before reading (an old Sunday Times magazine followed by the Bible!), she kept them on when she left the train and disappeared across the station concourse in them.

Aubrac 07 Jul 2008, 01:34

Went to a concert on Saturday and my lovely wife was wearing her red framed glasses all evening, including when we went for a meal afterwards.

Anyway, a couple in say early forties sat next to us. The women was wearing a low plus, about +1.00 scrip. She was sitting next to me and kept either taking her glasses off or pushing them up on her head. She couldn't see to read and whenever she looked at the programme she put her glasses on. The light was bad and twice she took her partners glasses, about a +2.00, and put them on, she kept them on for a while but looked over the top for distance.

During the second half of the programme she kept her glasses on all the time and left wearing them, her partner, who only used his for reading the programme, also was wearing his when leaving.

I think they were recent glasses wearers, he could be presbyopic and she maybe a latent hyperope.

The concert was very good but a lot of distraction with the frequent glasses changes and movement!

-5.00 who luvs gwgs 03 Jul 2008, 22:24

Happened to meet a nice young 20 something gwg who complimented yours truly on my frames (red semi rimless wire with double wire sides)She was wearing black plastic rectangulars and we got to try each others on she said she had had an eye injury I found that they frankly made zero effect on my eyes there was no minus correction just astigmatism she on the other hand said my -6/-5 smade things quite clear!!Sadly no chance of anything more as this was in front of her and her boyfriend still nice to have a gentle flirt with a gwg 30 years younger!

Demon 20 Jun 2008, 18:58

Not so much sightings, but more 'inter-actings'. I I mentioned in another thread I often wear +2.00 OTC readers over my contacts just for fun. Recently I got up the guts and tried some rather daring things.

I pretended that the lense of my glasses popped out and was having trouble getting it back in (presumeably I couldn't 'see' what I was doing). Anyway, with two different women I asked if I could borrow their glasses so I could fix mine.

The first was a woman who had readers about +1.25 (I pretended they weren't quite strong enough and squinted my way through it).

The second had bifocals of about +2.00 with an add of about +3.00. She was nice and sympathised with my quandry about how hard it is to fix or adjust our glasses while not wearing them.

These women were both members of a fitness facility where I am a fitness instructor.

All in All, VERY exciting!

Michael 16 Jun 2008, 06:22

In the coffee shop of a famous museum I sat opposite a young couple - maybe Swedish - she had a very nice pair if specs perched on her head but with lenses at least -10! He kept leaning towards her as they talked and I thought why doesn't she put on her specs so he needn't. When they got up she handed HIM the specs and he wore them around the gallery, peering closely at the descriptions of the art. I guess he was quite blind without them.

Adalle 14 Jun 2008, 06:30

Yesterday me and my girlfriend and another couple went shopping to a new huge mall. When we got into the mall it was a bit dark, so all of us removed our sunglasses, except my friend's girlfriend who kept them on.

While we were in a store we split to look for clothes. A little bit later she came close to me and I asked her why she still wore the sunglasses and got the answer that she was blind without them and that they were with prescription lenses. That was odd, cause they were 60's style with huge frames. She told me that she preferred to wear them because they offered her better visual field, as a result of the huge lenses! I tried them on and later on, when we went for a coffee, my girlfriend tried them on too. She was so thrilled that she decided to buy a pair of prescription sunglasses in the next couple of months... Great news.

Smudgeur 13 Jun 2008, 11:33

Happy to oblige Phil

Mr & Mrs (or should that be Mrs & Mrs!) Grayson Perry

http://www.ica.org.uk/thumbnail.php?id=1735&max=408

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/74177702.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1932204034FA11B84B8C608FEF6C48CF79F284831B75F48EF45

Phil 13 Jun 2008, 04:05

I wonder if anyone has any pics of two gwgs I've spotted recently.

The first is Philippa Fairclough who (poor girl) is married to Grayson Perry. She's a psychotherapist. But, more to the point, she's a gwg and I think I saw a shot of her in bifocals.

The other is Baroness (Delyth) Morgan of Drefelin who I spotted (on the Parliament channel) speaking in the House of Lords about education in a very fetching pair of black-framed specs.

Galileo 06 Jun 2008, 05:13

A great lunch today in a small cafe. A slim dark haired woman walked in with rectangular metal frames and thick thick lenses. Maybe -12. She kept pushing them close to her eyes using the thumb and little finger of one hand on the edges of the frames. She had brown eyes, high cheek bones and full lips with a lovely smile.

I was so absorbed with her I almost missed three younger women, all attractive and all wearing glasses with minus prescriptions around -4 to -8 (guessing). They sat near me and the one with the most cut in took her glasses off and hooked them into her blouse whilst she ate, occasionally putting her nose right down to her plate to see what was going on. As I left I gave her a big smile from about 2 metres away but she showed no recognition whatsoever, just stared in my direction with her eyes slightly screwed up. Delightful!

Aubrac 04 Jun 2008, 02:56

On the train to London yesterday, an attractive lady about 30/35 sat opposite me at a table seat. She got some papers out and then fished in her bag and brought out a quality looking black case, and put on a pair of +2/+3 glasses.

They wre quite heavy semi transparent frames and did't ook like OTC readers, and gave her eyes a nice amount of magnification. She did some peperwork for about ten minutes and then looked out of the window for some time, at the destination board at the end of the carriage, and also went to the loo still wearing glasses.

I think she was too young for presbyopia and most likely a hyperope as she could obviously see ok with glasses for distance.

I wondered if she would keep them on but about ten minutes from Victoria Station, she took them off and put eye-make up on - maybe in a few years an FT wearer.

Walking to the office this morning in Glasgow, Scotland, and saw a stunning, slim, young girl with long blond hair. She was wearing superb glasses with black rectangular frames and chrome side arms, a nice plus prescription of +3 or more - a very good start to the day!

sourgrapes 03 Jun 2008, 17:51

Yeah, the readers must have been minus, not plus

benn 03 Jun 2008, 17:24

-3 readers would be +2 right? Maybe she was too young for bifocals.

sourgrapes 03 Jun 2008, 15:27

That is kind of weird, that a -5 myope took off her glasses and put on plus glasses to read. Hmm, at -5 I think she would have had a hard enough time reading a laptop bareyed, and even harder with any sort of plus correction

Gino 03 Jun 2008, 15:13

Excellent 7hrs flight last weekend. Opposite of the aisle sat a businesswoman, in her late 30ies I guess. Wore cold and spotless wire-rimmed frames when boarding and during take-off, in a -5.00 range I think judging from the power rings and thickness of the lenses.

Once we'd reached cruising altitude however, she took-off the glasses, powered her laptop, and put on the most sexy pink plastic readers sitting 3/4 down ger nose. She looked a totally different and hot lady in those. Didn't take off the readers for the remaining of the flight, except when going to the lavatories (which she did without any specs!).

Phil 29 May 2008, 04:02

I had a very satisfactory journey into work on train today. I sat next to a voluptuous myopic 50ish woman with new-looking rimless frames. Her lenses were about -5 or 6, probably varifocal as she read the newspaper in comfort.

Then a young girl got on and sat opposite me. She was beautiful with lovely legs. She had nice blonde hair and was very pretty. But her specs were just amazing. Nice low minus lenses in a lovely frame. Modern style with wide sides that divided into two in a lovely burnished brown/bronze colour. She could have neen a model.

Specs4Me 28 May 2008, 20:51

No problem, I made the comment only because we had a time here a while backe when there was a lot of that going around and some of the comments made by the imposters were not very nice. Mistakes are made, thanks for responding.

specs4you 28 May 2008, 17:38

sorry specs4me, this was unintentional - it was my first posting for a while and I must have picked up your name in my subconscious

Specs4Me 28 May 2008, 08:08

Seems as someone has borrowed my handle here.

Aubrac 28 May 2008, 06:24

Was at Stanstead airport this morning and girl serving at the coffee bar had a really funky pair of frames.

One side of her plastic rectangular frames with wide arms was white both sides and also on the right lens, while the bridge, other lens and arm was black. Prescription was low minus, about -1.50 but a very unusual and striking frame.

Aussieplusman 28 May 2008, 00:57

Has anyone here had a first hand encounter with any gwg politicians? I've just realised that I once met Natasha Scott-Despoja, at least I think it was her. I guess she expected me to discuss politics, wheras I just exchanged in prolonged pleasantries to buy me extra time looking into her lenses. I found her again on http://www.geocities.com/ttuci/

Mister Mild 27 May 2008, 23:24

Some lovely sightings of prescription sunglasses yesterday, a fine sunny autumn day.. (1) I'm waiting my turn to be served in an agency where clients take a number from a dispensing machine by the door. A woman in mid-thirties, wearing heavy black frames with cut-in evident despite the dark lenses, steps in off the street, peers at the machine, takes her number then reaches for the spectacle case. Off come the sunglasses, quickly replaced by a nice pair of wide-armed cat's-eye at -5 (or thereabouts). She blinks a couple of times then, apparently adjusted to the light, takes a seat

(2) A woman in mid-forties, rounded face and blonde hair suggesting Slavic parentage, steps into my train carriage wearing unfashionably heavy black-framed sunglasses, plano front and cut-in are very much evident (around -9, -10?). Fortunately for her (but not me) there's an empty seat by the window, so she feels no need to change the glasses, but from where I'm standing I can admire the considerable lens thickness.

Therouteur 27 May 2008, 19:02

SERIOUS Korean gwg hotties on the 18th and 31st floors

Menthe 27 May 2008, 17:31

according to this account, 85 percent of high school students in Singapore are myopic, and about 93 percent of medical students in Taiwan are myopic. On this basis, my dream girl is a student nurse with a Singaporian mother and a Taiwanese father, although any office worker of the same lineage would do nicely, I'm sure.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Sci/sci.med.vision/2005-08/msg01226.html

specs4me 27 May 2008, 17:19

Being a part-time office worker myself, I agree that offices, and the public transport routes to them, are amongst the best places to spot gwgs. I must try counting them on the subway system I use. I particularly like it when they come out into the bright light, take their normal glasses off, reach into their bags and bring out the scripted sunglasses.

Living amongst Koreans and Taiwanese you must have a particularly high concentration of gwgs as they seem to be the world leaders in the myopia league. I really must go to these countries one day. Meanwhile, please keep the reports flowing from China.

Therouteur 27 May 2008, 15:48

Funny you should mention gwg filled. I've spent a fair amount of time and way too many dollars looking for the world's top gwg watching spot, only to discover that I was living on top of it.

The familie T lives in uncertain harmony with 10,000 Koresns and Taiwanese at T Terraces. A little beyond us is the waving greenery and soaring glass towers of Shennan. And just past them is the former Tairan Estate. Not so long ago, this was the world capital of mobile phone and other useless electronic gadgetry manufacture, squat grey 6 storey factories. But now the factories are gone in pursuit of cheaper peasants and the squat gery buildings are packed full of offices. And offices means gwgs. Thousands and thousands of gwgs.

The best place to watch them is Che Gong Miao Metro station, a mere 50 yard amble from T Terraces. The best time is between 8.30 and 9 am. Yesterday in a random 10 minute period I counted no less than 120 five star gwgs, to me an unprecedented concentration.

Specs4me 27 May 2008, 10:21

Theroutuer: what a great account of an obviously wonderful evening. Let's have more of your accounts from the gwg-filled country of China.

Therouteur 25 May 2008, 21:06

Here in the gleaming towers of South China we didn't feel too many earth tremors. But the city fathers finally came to the realisation that most hewers of wood and carriers of water in the town were actually from the most affected area. So a series of jamborees were held to extract money for the good cause.

Most of them I finished up watching on TV. They seemed to consist of large charity balls; you know the thing, women dripping with jewels throwing bags of money into piles in the middle of the dance floor and declaring tearfully their solidarity with the people living rough on the streets. And some interesting gwgery amongst them.

But finally the turn of the foreign devils came and La T and I dutifully presented ourselves in the cavernous halls of the Futian Sheraton, handed over large amounts of cash and were presented with buttons which declared how much we cared.

And an excellent gwg watching day it was. La T herself had gone minus for the occasion and was looking very HOT. Just across the way were two Russian looking women, one of whom had a very nice line in rectangular see-through plastic frames. A young Chinese journalist at the reception desk also got things going - black plastic Buddy Hollies although I did notice the dread hi-index making an appearance. Something should be done.....

But the highlight was unquestionably on the stage. Now you have to understand that the jamboree took the form of a sort of foreign devils' talent quest, sadly without the ability to gong them off the stage. There was a family of pukingly cute Spanish kids who sang Chinese songs, two Indian kids whose total talent score ran at roughly zero between them dancing Bollywood hits, a Canadian folkie singing his own compositions. You get the picture.

But in the midst of this I felt a sudden sharp pain in my thigh. Looking for the cause of the pain I observed that it was La T squeezing my thigh with a grip strong enough to draw blood.

"Look!" she gasped.

Climbing onto the stage was a true vision. A Trinidadian chanteuse, twenty something, long dreadlocks drawn back in a pony tail, dressed all in black with stunning rectangular rimless glasses. I was gob-smacked and returned La T's squeeze. And I'm told she was a good singer too. I have no recollection...

But later she came down and sat in front of me and I was able to observe from a perfect position behind her at least minus seven and LOTS of edge. Such things are only rarely vouchsafed to us and we must enjoy them as we can.

-5.00 who luvs gwgs 24 May 2008, 06:45

Thanks Julian will keep a look out one decent high minus gwg to report a Chinese girl about 30 or so with a nice pair of deep red rectangular metal frames with very sparkling lenses with some decent thickness and significant cut in judging by someone I know I would estimate about -8.00 very lovely indeed

Julian 22 May 2008, 12:18

Typically, if you look from behind through someone's lens with a good bit of cylinder, you'll see distortion of the image. With a lot of cylinder it can even look like a minus lens at one distance and a plus at another.

-5.00 who luvs gwgs 22 May 2008, 07:09

several eyescene visitors have commented on spotting people with cylinder i find it fairly easy to spot degrees of minus (mind you the newer thinner lenses can confuse but the cut in is always there ) but what on earth do you look for to see cylinder?

Aubrac 09 May 2008, 05:50

Don't usually post about sightings but yesterday was on the Easyjet flight from Glasgow to London and both cabin crew hostesses were wearing glasses!

I fly fairly often and it is very unusual to see cabin crew wearing glasses - to see two at the same time!

One was wearing purple half frames which suited her, the other had dark hair and wore black rectangular frames, they suited her but maybe were a little big for her face.

Prescription a little disappointing, only about -1.00 with some cylinder for both of them.

ES-Visitor 08 May 2008, 06:39

Great sighting today! A frien came to visit and he wanted to take some photos of our gathering. Hus wife was to do that, she wore medium strength minus glasses (-3ish) but what was stunning was that when she took the camera she brought the LCD screen very close to her right eye while her left one turned in... I wanted her to take photos for ever.... At the end of the day the photo proved blurred... Like her vision may be!!

Puffin 20 Apr 2008, 17:25

Went to my favourite chinese restaurant, there are 3 cute GWG's there! I wonder if they realise that when I'm looking at them, I'm busy estimating RX? And enjoying the view!

Cut-in UK  19 Apr 2008, 00:52

Rebull1, I quite agree with your comment, and this new trend seems most prevalent among the well-groomed younger women from 18 - 35. These bolder frames are clearly a style accessory. Increasing numbers of them are so attractive, that they almost take ones breath away! It would be interesting to know, in the UK, just how many of these splendid girls go to High Street optical shops, and how many now order over the internet from the many suppliers available.

rebbull1 18 Apr 2008, 12:43

Life just gets better and better in UK.

More and more girls are dumping their contact lens and going for GLASSES.

Plastic frames are in Black, Red, Blue, Green, Brown, Bronze, even White.

Frames with wide arms are all the rage.

Lots of high PLUS and MINUS RX sightings on very glamorous girls that have never worn glasses in public for years.

I have even seen girls in their early 20s wearing bifocals.

Rectangular frames make the lens even thicker.

sourgrapes 17 Apr 2008, 17:10

Was going to add: some nice thick-looking lens reflections; the kind where you can tell the power of the lens is substantial. Mmm.

sourgrapes 17 Apr 2008, 17:06

Moderate to high myopic (maybe about -6, maybe more) blond girl with black rectangular frames at taco bell. Caught some really nice reflections and some cut-in. I had a hard time not staring!

Martin 07 Apr 2008, 14:10

A super plus day.

First came alongside a Mom and 2 kids at a street crossing. Really nice blonde hair worn long and modern purple framed wide sideframe glasses with SUPER strong plus lenses. Had a long time to wait for the "walk" sign and got a good look as she was looking past me for the traffic. Hi-index with a straight bifocal line visible and serious power.

Later came across a city girl, well dressed and lightly made-up, in a nice suit etc wearing small dark plactic frames with again significant plus lenses - hard to see her eyes except from straight in front. Again very hi-index as not much visible lens thickness.

Third was even more unusual. Girl in late 30s with very frizzy perm and new, but 70s style round quite big plastic frames sporting again, quite significant plus lenses. Unlike the others, these were not hi-index as they stood out more than 1/4".

DannyP 07 Apr 2008, 00:10

I meant we are both to shy to start a conversation. lol

DannyP 07 Apr 2008, 00:09

Every tuesday I take my nephew to speech therapy (he has autism) and there is a girl that works in the waiting room who does art with the kids while they wait. She wears probably +1. She is gorgeous. I wear +5. We keep exchanging glances but we are both to start a conversation. lol.

The other day I was in the grocery store and this older lady kept walking by and staring. As I was getting in line to checkout I took my glasses off because I'm so self concious about them and the cashier was really pretty. The same older lady walked by and looked at me and kind of looked disappointed that I had taken my glasses off.

Emily 06 Apr 2008, 15:11

That only means one thing: your girlfriend is nearsighted.

Gino 06 Apr 2008, 14:55

Last Friday after school I went home together with my friend Lynn. We stayed in the kitchen to eat something and then her mom joined us. I guess her mom is her mid-forties, she is a beautiful lady and always well dressed.

Last week was the first time I saw her mom put up classy red plastic readers on the tip of her nose to read some papers. She kept the glasses on for some 10min, then took them off and left them on the kitchen table before leaving. I told Lynn (herself a fulltime glasses wearer) that the glasses fit her mom real well. She laughed, put off her own glasses and jokingly donned her mom's specs and asked me how she looked in them. This was so sexy! She then complained about her mom's glasses making her sight even worse than with no glasses on and reverted to her own specs.

Bob W. 06 Apr 2008, 14:33

I regularly compose in Wordpad and then copy and paste. That works. I have to do that or else things get all jumbled if I'm in a hurry or got too excited about something.

Paul 05 Apr 2008, 07:40

On Tuesday I had had a long day, was tired and due to a problem on the tube arrived in Waterloo station to see my train leaving from platform 12 as I ran to the gate. I was not a happy bunny!!!

Then I turned round to check the departures board to check that my next one in 30mins time was coming in on time. BUT under the board were two really gorgeous girls, waiting for somebody. the slightly smaller one had long blonde hair piled up and was wearing small metal framed glasses with a serious amount of cut-in and heavy power rings. It was easy to have a good long look as they were standing directly under the boards. She was really nice, but after a couple of minutes two more girls arrived and all four went down to the Underground.

As I still had a lot of time to wait, I went into BK and got a burger. As I was leaving after paying, I realised that the girl beside me was wearing serious plus glasses. It was very busy and there was only one table for two empty so I took it. The plussie followed and asked to share with me. She looked great with long dark hair to her waist. She was wearing glasses with a modern frame with wide but not deep lenses and two metalbars set apart as the side frame. The flasses were substantial plusses. Her eyes filled them and had that dreamy unreal reflective quality. I could barely eat for staring.

We talked. She was a student from a Uni north of London going home, unfortunately to Yeovil, which is nowhere near me. I plucked up courage to ask for her phone number and will ring and try to arrange to meet again.

A good end to a bad day!!!!!

Wurm 04 Apr 2008, 20:16

ehpc,

If you are composing in some other software, like a word processor, you might try typing your post straight into the post window on here.

ehpc 04 Apr 2008, 15:19

Had another go. More than a few words and the system crashes. WEIRD................

ehpc 04 Apr 2008, 15:08

ha ha :) I will try and give it a go at some point. See if this one 'takes'..................

Bob W. 04 Apr 2008, 14:07

ehpc, keep trying. Whatever you're trying to post, I'm sure it's worthwhile.

Bob W.

ehpc 03 Apr 2008, 12:33

It's the Communists,I'm sure. They're everywhere.

Amphibious 03 Apr 2008, 10:31

Haven't you been told ehpc? You're not allowed to 'play' with your computer after a certain time! ;)

ehpc 03 Apr 2008, 07:02

Weird. Communists must be censoring me.................

ehpc 03 Apr 2008, 06:59

Strange..........................................

ehpc 03 Apr 2008, 06:59

Weird. When I try to post more than about six words, the system crashes.

ehpc 03 Apr 2008, 06:55

Can't seem to send a posting!

ehpc 03 Apr 2008, 06:54

 03 Apr 2008, 06:45

Puffin 03 Apr 2008, 06:13

That proves my theory that GWG sightings come in clusters.

Phil 03 Apr 2008, 01:33

Just back from a visit to the dentist which is normally torture but this time was heavenly.

I was greeed at the desk by a beautiful blonde in her late forties: quite stunning. She could not spot my name on the computer and, when it was pointed out to her by the other receptionist, she remarked "I really should wear my glasses".

Then the hygienist appeared. A small, young, slim Spaniard with lovely brown plastic specs sporting perfect minus lenses, about -4 or 5. The tooth cleaning was a delight. I spent half an hour staring into her eyes through the lenses, studying the power rings. Yumyum. She stood incredibly close to me pressing her firm chest against me. All in all enormously erotic.

Then I saw the dentist: a hyperope in her 50's and herselyf not unattractive.

When I returned to pay and make another appointment the blonde receptionist had donned a pair of stylish heavy black plastic readers. She was now gorgeous beyond words.

Mister Mild 02 Apr 2008, 15:50

Phil, a beautiful little story which strikes a chord with me also, after my own recent visit to that country.

Phil 31 Mar 2008, 09:24

I'm just back from a week in Spain where I noticed so many young locals wearing dark frames (black and dark red, in particular) which suited their dark colouring so perfectly.

The high point of my stay was when I settled my hotel bill with a beautiful young myopic gwg receptionist. She wore heavy black frames, with lenses around -2.5 showing just a hint of power rings. They suited her exquisitely. As we pored together over the printout our faces got quite close and we stared at each other for a moment. Looking through her lenses at her beautiful dark eyes was a second of pure magic.

chrisB 30 Mar 2008, 11:52

this is a generic sighting rather than specific.

Back in my formative GWG watching years in the late 60's, there was a fashion for colourful and elaborate eyemakeup among the girls in my fanciable age range. Those that were GWG sometimes even achieved a double whammy by the combination of strong lenses and the way the eyemakeup was accentuated by their glasses. I remember one girl called Sally Miller who used the combination to great effect. I never really had a thing for Sally as she was on the short side but another girl who's name I can't remember was really my hearts desire. Sadly both of them had interests elsewhere.

Walking around Cambridge market area today in the spring sunshine,I do believe the fashion has returned.

Chris

lazysiow 30 Mar 2008, 05:43

Well for one find that to be a long overdue trend lol. When I was a kid, just about nothing would fit me, everything was designed for caucasian style faces. In other words, long sharp noses.

I think this might be because more people are buying online from places like zenni, 39dollarglasses etc where the frames all come from Asian

Guest 30 Mar 2008, 04:01

I remember a gwg who took the same bus to school who had large metal framed plus glasses (this was the eighties). The glasses must have been fairly heavy as they kept sliding down her nose. She pushed them back up ever so often, but they never stayed put.

I feel you hardley see that any more with the lenses getting smaller and more people using plastic lenses which are lghter. I also feel that asians tend to have better fitting glasses nowadays - maybe there are special frames for asians designed for small noses?

Puffin 24 Mar 2008, 17:43

Oh and the chinese restaurant I like now has two GWG waitresses, one with black frames, one light blue!

Puffin 24 Mar 2008, 17:42

Just got back from holiday and have several interesting sightings to report.

As usual on the flights to and from there were several GWG's who were obviously only wearing glasses because they couldn't deal with the contacts.

Other than that, a oldish woman employed as a cleaner in a burger king, largish metal frames, thick, strong plastic lenses, no myodisks, plenty of power rings, wow.

And then there was a sort of family reunion the last day. One of the young women, a sort of distant family member, has worn glasses for years and is now at minus 5 or so, usually see her about once a year this time of year, and it usually seems about the time she gets her glasses changed. I noticed she seemed to be looking through the tops of her lenses, evidently trying to eke out some additional clarity... I casually remarked (gulp) "isn't this about the time of year you get your eyes tested? you had new glasses this time last year??" well, I got away with it and we had a nice chat about her glasses and vision and stuff.

Paul 22 Mar 2008, 08:10

Was on holiday recently in S England and one day ahd some super plus sightings.

First was buying something for lunch in Supermarket. Checkout girl was low 20s with far too short peroxide hair but large black plastic frames with quite strong plus lenses, which she kept pushing up her nose.

Secondly joined a walking tour. Leader was a lady of about 60 wearing unfasionable big plastic frames with strong lenticular plus lenses with out bifocal. Seemed to see very well as both read notes and small distant detail without effort. Tours are great, because you are allowed to look at the guide.

Also in tour part was a tall girl with fuzzy blonde hair and quite strong plus lenses, must have been at least +8, but hard to see from the side because of the hair. Nice modern hi index semi rimless and boy did she look good. Hard to view sites with her about.

Last one was about 16. Met at a crossing waiting for the light to change. Small, with really long dark hair to her waist and slim and neat figure. Was wearing very unusual rectangular wire frames with only about 15mm height of lens, though full width. Lens stuck out about 10mm with quite a bit also behind frame. Never god more than glimpses of her full face, but prescription was quite strong.

These were unusual because almost all glasses werers were minus, even the small kids.

specs4ever 16 Mar 2008, 08:02

Too dark to get a really good idea of her prescription, but I loved watching the lights bounce off those plano fronts of her lenses

Puffin 16 Mar 2008, 07:55

Here's her audition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/oliver/video/index.shtml?week=5&video=2

Puffin 16 Mar 2008, 07:50

On the latest BBC talent show thing, there was a black GWG! She took them off to do her audition, had quite a bit of myopia. Hopefully she will be back.

Phil 12 Mar 2008, 02:04

I saw a woman on the train today who proves my point about younger myopes needing bifocals. She was certainly not old enough to be presbyopic and wore stylish frames with minus lenses: around -2 or 3. She needed to consult a pocket tube map: and they always have such tiny writing. So she pushed her specs down her nose and looked over them. Two or three times she tried looking at it through her glasses and seemed sort of surprised that she couldn't see the writing. So she pushed them down her nose again until she had worked out her route.

Like so many myopes she was just used to seeing close things so much more clearly without wearing her distance correction. Why oh why are opticians in the UK not routinely prescribing bifocals for myopia?

Galileo 11 Mar 2008, 08:28

Ivan: thanks, I would do that, but I just have to find her again first! I know which road she lives on but not exatly where!!

Slit 11 Mar 2008, 01:09

At the nearby Sub Post Office.

The girl in the counter, about 28-30....

During the days i started university four yrs back she used to wear a mild plus rx, probably plano. Didnt get much chance to go there because of the world getting highly digital and few letters being sent by post.

Noticed last year she was moving in to bifocals, with a plano top and a add of about +2.

Today i happened to go there and hello! her rx has grown stronger! Top part with about +1.5 and bottom part increased add. She seemed to be not fully familiar with the new rx because she was looking over the glasses and through the glasses time to time while talking to some one over the counter.

Sadly, it looked like the old beliefs about glasses are making her self esteem run really low.

she has some pleasent features, but behaves with a very cold/shy attitude.

Hope to post more letters in the time to come!

too bad that the world is making people loose their self esteem by things such as "Oh! you look old with bifocals!", "you are too young for bifocals, arent you?", "you look like my granny etc."

But i try to give a complement every time i see one!.

Oh, This reminded me of the recent sightings at Colombo international airport in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan airlines (www.srilankan.aero), which used to be pretty much anti-glasses seemes to have dropped the attitude now.

(probably this is due to the heavy promotional campaign by "technovision", who have a mobile eye testing bus which approach all the major companies in sri lanka.http://www.technovision.lk/Techno-vision-opticians.html)

Within three months time, number of GWGs at front counters and boarding area has increased zero to 5!!!

Still i am not seeing any air hostesses with glasses, but there is an increasing number of contact lense wearers. Hope to see the growing trend.

If you happen to travel through Colombo/Katunayake international airport in Sri Lanka, dont forget to complement their eyeglasses. They are one of the most pleasent and hospitable airline crew, who will accept the complements with a big smile.

The best girl is at the boarding counter which handles "Emirates/Sri Lankan Airlines" business class passengers. She is such a cute sweety, fair, petite and thick rimmed reading glasses perched half way down the nose...

Ivan 09 Mar 2008, 06:22

-Galileo. I love those type of frames,even more with a nice rx.I'd ask her out for dinner straight away if I were you,those sort of frames with that rx are few and far between.See how you get on-if you have chemistry then go for it!

Galileo 09 Mar 2008, 05:10

I had a great afternoon. Out for lunch and a movie with friends when a woman walked over. Oh said one of my friends here's X - do you want to join us? Yes said X and I turned round to find myself facing a pair of small high index very modern wire framed glasses with a script in double digits and a pretty smiling face behind that! We chatted for a long time, went for a coffee afterwards and now I'm trying to pluck up courage to ask her out. The frames have split wire arms and the oval lens holders made very small to reduce the lens thickness. Many power rings and loads of cut in. Different prescription in each eye, maybe one with higher sphere and the other with higher astigmatism. It made my day and she is really nice as well!

lazysiow 07 Mar 2008, 00:52

Bah, meant to say "wearing them LIKE reading glasses"

lazysiow 07 Mar 2008, 00:51

Very nice sighting today. I was at the mall and noticed a very beautiful asian girl reading a newspaper while eating, her moderate strength glasses at the very tip of her nose. Of course I had to take a seat across from her :)

Once I had a better view, I noticed they were actually minus lenses, the hi index type with lots of distortions that drives me crazy. Even though she was wearing them as reading glasses she was actually reading over the top of them, and was so engrossed I don't think she noticed me staring for quite some time. However at one point she suddenly finished and pushed them up, and looked straight at me and gave me a big smile. It was definitely quite a sight! However , then she quickly got up and put her stuff away and walked off :(

Women, talk about mixed signals!

Tod 06 Mar 2008, 22:45

I was in a coffee shop the other day. A very pretty young girl about 20 with medium length blond hair, wearing jeans with half the ass torn out of them and also wearing brown rectanglular plastic glasses with maybe -3.50 Rx, walked in with her male friend. They both placed their order at the counter then sat down. Then this pretty girl took off her glasses, folded them and placed them on the their table. At one point she looked across the room when their order was called (she didn't squint). Then the male friend went and got it. She keept her glasses off all the while they ate. When they were ready to leave she reached for her glasses and put them on and then left.

Gee 06 Mar 2008, 22:20

I had a similar experience only it was in a Wal Mart, the cashier was only in her mid 20's I'd say, with about -5ish, and much to my surprise lifted her glasses to her forehead to read the card.

Phil 03 Mar 2008, 01:02

I was out yesterday with my wife and daughter for a Mothers' day lunch. The waitress was a big but attractive girl around 30. I noticed at once that she had a pair of black metal framed glasses in her hair, which was rather nice. But I'm so glad I paid her with my credit card! It transpried she was a pretty strong plussie and couldn't see the machine without her glasses. She pulled the from her hair to do the business and then put them back in such a sexy way. Just perfect.

Ivan 02 Mar 2008, 07:02

At my local supermarket last week....

A dark haired lady about 27-30 yo,very cute looking with a sort of short fringed haircut but with a ponytail at the back.She had on a pair of semi-rimless frames with quite thick black plastic at the top and sides.rx about -2/ -3 or so.These matched her dark hair, eyebrows,face shape and general look very,very well. In fact she noticed me looking at her as I had peeked a bit too long and when I looked back at her a second time she was looking straight at me and caught me red handed or should I say "red eyed" whoops!...anyway she didnt seem upset by my attention.If I see her there again I am resolved to tell her how great she looks in her glasses!A great sighting that will cause me to go shopping now more in my lunch hour!

Puffin 23 Feb 2008, 17:10

Saw a nice woman in a craft shop today, small and slim with very shiny rimless glasses, about -3 or so, she looked straight at me, perhaps sensing my interest. Alas I was with someone else so couldn't hang around.

Katy 21 Feb 2008, 09:15

This is a 'hearing' from ages ago but I just remembered about it so thought I'd post. My friend told me about a female friend of his who was seeing a new man. Apparently they had been in her flat, getting quite steamy on the rug by the fire, and he had taken his glasses off. When they looked for them later, they found them on top of the (electric?) fire, melted! My friend thought this was hysterical, especially as the girl then had to escort her bf home 'as he couldn't get home without his glasses'. They later split up and my friend would see the ex around and would always tell me 'oh I saw so-and-so'. I never got to meet him but I always wished I had - I suppose his rx was pretty impressive :-)

lazysiow 21 Feb 2008, 08:26

This one's kinda sighting but at a mall bookstore the other day I saw 3 schoolgirls. Two of them were helping their friend try on reading glasses and she was seeing if she could see anything in the distance with them. They kept asking her if she had 20/20 vision, and she didnt know what that was. One replied "it means clear vision" and she thought she did. However then they started asking her if she could read the names of the stores across the store which were quite large and well lit and she couldn't even see them, especially when one of them was an optical store lol. I noticed she didn't even try to squint which told me she might have been walking around as a -3 or -4 for awhile.

At which point I turned around and explained that the reading glasses were for farsightedness like mine and what she needed were glasses for distance. She looked all worried but then said oh that's why the other ones made things worse. They all then headed off in the direction of the optical store. The girl that needed glasses was young but I could tell she would be quite cute in glasses especially in a few years

 20 Feb 2008, 12:44

JamesX,

How's it going with your myopic lady friend?

chrisB 12 Feb 2008, 10:58

the opening to that last message should have said.

Listening to the radio on the way home I heard an advertisement for a local opticians - as follows:

chrisB 12 Feb 2008, 10:56

crying and becomingly increasingly distraught. A male voice says "I am sorry to say ms Smith, your eyes are perfect. I do not need to prescribe glasses" ... the girl's distress increases and then the music changes and another voice says "but if you are lucky enough to need glasses come to spectacular opticians etc

My optical obsessive subconcious replaced the strap line with, "But don't despair, come to spectacular opticians and try one of our wonderful GOC packages"

lazysiow 11 Feb 2008, 19:21

She sounds like quite a catch James, I think we're all jealous now :)

Alex 11 Feb 2008, 14:20

My sister had a friend of hers, Dina, staying at our place past weekend. They had to work on some university case studies together. Dina is a pretty girl and wears nice oval plastic-rimmed minus glasses.

When both went to bed on Friday night, I noticed Dina had left her glasses on our kitchen table. I couldn't resist trying them on and spent about an hour watching TV and walking around looking through them, which was a great turn-on! Unfortunately she took her specs with her to their bedroom on Saturday night...

James X. 11 Feb 2008, 12:19

Friday night went great! She is very very talkative, and pretty hilarious.

I managed to slip on my reading glasses at menu time, and she said, "Ooo! Let's trade glasses, I want to see how blind you are!" Of course my glasses are only a +2.00. She puts them on and says, "Eh, these are nothing, try mine." I actually got to put her glasses on! I said, "Wow! Pretty hefty prescription. I think my prescription is around a +2. Do you know what yours is?" She says her glasses are minus 19. (Hey, I was close! I had guessed -20 here.)

We stayed out pretty late, driving around, getting coffee, and chatting. She is very outgoing! A lot more outgoing than me, but that can be a good thing. We're going out again on Thursday :-)

 11 Feb 2008, 01:29

I had a nice sighting out shopping on Saturday.A couple in their thirties came out of a sidestreet.She was pleasant looking and wearing a three quarter length black leather skirt which moved nicely on her bottom as she walked along.She had on a pair of red semi rimmed metal eyeglasses which were quite nice.However what made her a special lady were the georgeous flat fronted high index approx minus 8 lenses she wore so confidently,a perfect frame choice to highlight her glittering power ringed lenses.As i watched her go up the street i paraphrased the lines of the ballad"Her lenses they shone like diamonds,she was the queen of myopia land"

Slit 10 Feb 2008, 05:30

Re:Steves Sighting of Lyn,

Wow, this will be a big treat for me if it happened in front of my eyes!

Its always sexy when girls play with reading glasses and keep them on the tip of the nose!

 09 Feb 2008, 21:38

JamesX

How did your date go Friday night?

lazysiow 09 Feb 2008, 12:51

Same for me here, after all you know you love something when you love it/them despite their faults :)

Its on my todo list to actually become a trans-am collector if I ever get to be one of those rich expensive thing collecting people. My personal holy grail is the 2000 series Trans Am's with the LS1's as recently seen on Bullrun Season 1. I only recently realised how many Trans Am's I have loved in the past and maybe I should just start collecting them.

diva 09 Feb 2008, 12:29

Haha I love American cars though. Had an old flatmate with a 82 Firebird which I swear went round corners sideways.

I know all the downsides of American but I still think they are freakn styley - I would love a Chrysler 300 series, it's the new version of the oldskool New Yorker (old flatmate also had a 55 New Yorker as a show car).

:)

Mikey 08 Feb 2008, 19:01

'98 Grand Am

I love it, and it's fast enough for me, but I realize it's kind of considered a poor man's sportscar.

diva 08 Feb 2008, 18:56

Mikey, what sort of Pontiac?

I love the firebird or the sunbird.

Audi schmaudi ...

James X. 08 Feb 2008, 14:17

VFL.... Thank you for the kind words :-)

We're going to TGI Friday's. I'll be wearing tan khaki pants and either a blue short-sleeve dress shirt or a red plaid button-down short-sleeve shirt.

I'm actually thinking I might bring my reading glasses. If I have the courage to put them on to read the menu, that might get the glasses conversation going.

Mikey 08 Feb 2008, 13:29

My guess is that cashmere sweaters are relatively expensive. Which means the guy must make some decent money :-)

It's a well-known fact among some of my friends that there was once a girl who had to choose between me and one of my friends; and, what tipped it in my friend's favor was that he drives a fairly new Audi, while I drive a 10-year-old Pontiac.

lazysiow 08 Feb 2008, 13:00

Cashmere sweaters? I always thought they looked very preppy and dorky and not much better than a turtleneck. Different lid for every pot, but what exactly is so sexy about them lol

VFL 08 Feb 2008, 11:01

Oh, James...you brave, brave boy! Good for you! To the bold go the spoils! You are going to have a wonderful evening. Mazel tov!

Your plan to not mention her glasses or vision unless she does first is perfect. Let things develop as they will. Glasses are only the icing on the cake. You are a very wise man.

Now, where are you going and what are you going to wear? I vote for a cashmere sweater. My friends all melt over men in cashmere sweaters.

You, my friend, deserve to be very pleased with yourself. That woman is feeling very flattered.

Liking women who happen to wear glasses is as natural as prefering brunettes over blondes or tall girls over short girls or certain ethnicities or personality types. There is a lid for every pot as my mama used to say. That's what makes the world go around.

Good going!

James X. 08 Feb 2008, 10:02

As I said in one of my posts, she seems like a nice person I'd like to get to know. This isn't just about her glasses. When I was there the other day, and sat down to discuss my billing and my next appointment, I feel like something sort of clicked between us, and that's why I went back and got the date. Her glasses are just the icing on the cake.

I can tell you right now that eyewear will almost defintely NOT be discussed unless she first brings it up. Anything I say about her glasses will be brief and vague... Like, "You look nice either way, with or without the glasses." Telling her that I prefer women in glasses doesn't come up until SEVERAL dates (or months) later.

Okay, well... Time for me to go back to being nervous as hell :-)

sourgrapes 08 Feb 2008, 08:36

spec4ever is quite diplomatic ;)

And James, nice job. A perfect opportunity and you took it. Good luck

specs4ever 08 Feb 2008, 04:47

I am envious James. She sounds like a perfect catch for one of us. However, please realize that most girls who wear strong glasses would rather not talk about their glasses. If she meets you for the date wearing contact lenses, try not to say too much, but sometime in the evening you might make a casual comment about how nice she looks wearing contacts, and then tell her that she didn't have to wear her contacts for you, because you find her very attractive wearing glasses as well. And if you are fortunate enough that she wears her glasses do not scare her off with too many comments or questions too soon. Hopefully there will be lots of time for you to find out everything. Good Luck

lazysiow 07 Feb 2008, 21:11

Well done James! Now you have to keep us updated on how it goes, and whether or not you have the courage to bring up the subject of her glasses lol

Steve 07 Feb 2008, 07:24

Yesterday evening I went for dinner with my wife and a colleague of her, who was also there with her husband. My wife had told me than her colleague, Lyn, was in her mid-late thirties and a mother of three. Lyn turned out to be a very attractive chatterbox, and we spent a nice evening all together.

But she really appealled to me when, after opening her menu card, she immediately took out some absolutely lovely reading glasses from her purse and very naturally put them up to read through the card. The framed looked to be well-worn, and Lyn seemed to be totally comfortable with them: putting them on and off, chewing on them,… as if she didn’t notice whether her specs were on or off. The glasses were perched on the tip of her nose for every dish and were there to stay, but went off in between the courses. Onlt at the very end of the dinner did she fold the up and put back in her purse.

Puffin 07 Feb 2008, 03:35

oh wow!!! well done!!

gwgs 07 Feb 2008, 01:08

Wow! Congrats James, you'll have to let us know how it goes.

What a lucky guy you are!

You still haven't let us know the name of the dentist but I guess theres no chance of that now!

James X. 06 Feb 2008, 18:17

Well, I actually did it!!! The girl with the minus 20 glasses... I went back there today and asked her out on a date, and she said yes!! We're meeting for dinner Friday evening :-)

(By the way, she was wearing them today, too, which may be a good sign that she's non-contacts. Don't get me wrong... she also seems like a nice person I'd like to get to know. This isn't just about her glasses.)

She's the business manager for my dentist's office. I went in there today and she just happened to be at the front desk. You could hear my heart pounding from 100 miles away. I said, "Hi, I was here yesterday...", and she said, "Oh yeah! How are you, Jim?" I said, "Good, I just had a quick question, if you have a minute." She said, "Sure, come on back!"

We sat down, and I just went right ahead and asked her if she was seeing anybody (no pun intended!) right now, and of course she looked surprised and said, "Um.... no." I asked her if she'd like to have dinner with me on Friday night. She sort of gasped a little, smiled, and nodded her head (a little stunned), "Okay, sure!" Then, I got her phone number and we agreed on a time to meet at the restaurant.

Man, I feel like I went skydiving today! :-)

lentifan 06 Feb 2008, 15:11

Not in the same class as James X's exciting sighting, but I did see today a young woman with one plus lens and one minus. The lenses were not strong - few dioptres each - but appeared to be hi-index, or at least the minus lens did. She was delicate looking and pretty in a girl next door sort of way.

Puffin 06 Feb 2008, 07:40

you know I hate going to the dentists - like most people - but this could get me going every week!!! I have this imagine of her only clients being OO's

gwgs 06 Feb 2008, 01:04

So whose your dentist James, I'm also dying to know!

lazysiow 06 Feb 2008, 00:36

You should, before I do ;)

James X. 06 Feb 2008, 00:31

Correction to the below... They made her head look 3 inches wide, not 6 :-)

I want to go back there and ask her out SO badly.

Highmyope 05 Feb 2008, 17:22

James X,

Who is your dentist? I think I have a toothache! :)

mickey 05 Feb 2008, 15:19

JamesX,

That last post was awesome!!! LOL

James X. 05 Feb 2008, 13:36

Just came from the dentist's office. The lady taking care of scheduling my next appointment was around 30 years old. She was thin with a nice, subtle, beautiful "girl next door" look, and she had STUNNINGLY thick glasses.

They were small, black, square, plastic frames.. a modern frame with fat sidebars. And, while I'm more of a plus lens fan, I was really admiring her lenses, which had to be EASILY around -20.

It was nice to see the lens edges NOT polished, so you could see the "white tunnel" of infinite power rings. Her glasses made her head look about 6 inches wide and her eyes about 10 miles away.

What intrigues me is how she's probably like (what seems like) 99% of women in the world, in that she probably normally wears contacts for such a strong prescription, but her eyes were probably hurting and dry this morning. So she had to pick up her glasses off the dresser and look in the mirror and say to herself, "Ugghhh. I have to wear these f****n' things today."

Then, I imagine that she came to work today all self-conscious, I sat down in front of her and silently admired how she looked in her glasses, and I imagine that she was able to read my thoughts and thought to herself, "Wow, this guy likes what he sees! Maybe I don't look so bad. Maybe I should wear my coke bottles more often!"

Phil 05 Feb 2008, 01:05

Two days running! This morning I sat next to a pretty thirty-something with long dark hair. She was reading her paper bare-eyed. Then she decided to use her phone to text, reached into her bag and put on an amazing pair of specs. Lovely green colour plastic with thick sides. Lenses were quite significant plus, which is not normally my thing, but she looked amazing.

DWV 05 Feb 2008, 00:46

Another sighting of bifocals on a young cashier... Long red hair, freckles, and a shy smile, unremarkable metal frames with a slight plus prescription, and lined bifocals. From the thickness of the lines I'd guess her add was 1.5 or more. I wonder if some local eye doctor has a penchant for putting young women into bifocals?

Phil 04 Feb 2008, 08:13

Lovely sighting on this morning's train. A pretty, blonde 40-something who gets on at next station, and whom I've long considered rather fanciable, got on and sat next to me. She read her paper for about 5 minutes before reaching in her bag for some readers. They looked new: I've certainly not seen her in them before. They were about plus twos in lovely dainty purple frames. She looked amazing. A real addition to the world of gwgs. Nicest thing was that she sat rather close to me and looked rather sheepish when we touched! Yumyum.

Guest 03 Feb 2008, 06:22

Adalle, thanks. I read somewhere recently how you discovered your girlfriend's glasses but can't remember which thread. Did you know she wore contacts? Did she always wear them or was she sometimes going bare eyed and you didn't know.

I think it's fascinating when you find out someone is a contacts wearer and you never knew it.

Adalle 03 Feb 2008, 03:33

@Guest

I already knew her prescription. -2.5 on each eye. She wanted to buy new glasses for some time now, but was hesitating because of the costs. Well, lucky me, her glasses broke. She even thinks about fixing her broken glasses, so she could end up with 3 pairs.

Also, at the optical shop, while my girlfriend was trying on glasses, a great looking 40ish year old mother with her about 17 year old daughter caught my attention. The mother was holding a paper with a prescription and as she passed by me I saw what looked like a -8 written on it. The mother tried on some pairs, while the daughter was silently watching and just examining the pairs, so I thought the glasses were for the mother.

After a while I heard the mother saying: "Go on. Try some of these. After all it's for you we came. I already have 3 pairs. I shouldn't buy any more now". And the daughter answered: "I told you. I don't need any glasses. After all I'm not gonna wear them. I'm fine with my contacts", only to receive a little lecture about eyesight, contacts and glasses from her mother. Finally she started trying some pairs, mostly those my girlfriend had excluded last, while her mother took out of her purse a pair of golden brown plastic frames of about -2 and put them on to see her and express her opinion.

Of course there were other girls in the shop trying glasses, but I only had one pair of eyes to watch them...

Guest 02 Feb 2008, 22:20

Congratulations Adalle. did you manage to find out your girlfriend's rx when you went into the optical shop?

JC 02 Feb 2008, 15:52

At the store of course I picked the line with the gwg running the register. Almost perfect... young, brunette, body in incredible shape, high index glasses maybe around -6 or so. Defiantly one of the best looking I have seen in awhile.

She got an inch just above her eye and was awkwardly reaching under her glasses to scratch it. Apparently it was a bad one because she started scratching harder, and even said something about it. I though for sure the glasses were about to come off but despite my silent mental urging they never did. After the itch was satisfied she did adjust the frames on her nose several times.

Adalle 02 Feb 2008, 09:35

About a week ago my girlfriend broke her glasses. We were out for the night and she had put them in her purse. Later as she tried to pull them out, one arm caught on somewhere in the purse and just snapped. So for a week now, she is wearing contacts all the time. Although she knew she had to buy new glasses soon, she wanted to wait some days to gather some savings. Today as we were out for a walk, I convinced her to go into an eyewear shop just to see some frames.

Needless to say, it was as if I was in heaven. We stayed there for about an hour and a half. She must have tried about 100 pairs and she seemed overjoyed by each pair she tried. She even started having second thoughts about not purchasing a new pair today. At the end she excluded, with my help too of course, all but two pairs. The one pair was purple around the lenses with red and a bit golden arms, plastic frames and oval in shape that widened a bit towards the arms. The second one, my personal favorite, was rectangular plastic frames with very wide arms, very dark green and a bit dark blue in color. Finally she decided to buy one pair, since she could not stand not having one of them. The problem was she could not decide which pair to get. Then I put my business mind to work. Since I wanted to buy a pair of sunglasses for myself, I talked to the saleswoman and managed to convince her to give us a discount if we were to buy all those three pairs! So we bought both pairs for my girlfriend and I got sunglasses too, in the price of 2 pairs.

Later on, in the car, she couldn’t wait to go home to take off the contacts to try the glasses, so she put the glasses over the contacts for about a minute to see how she looked like. When we reached at her place, she rushed to the bathroom, took off the contacts and started trying her glasses. For about half an hour she constantly switched between them, while we kissed, to see which felt better on her. There has been no definite conclusion till now…

Clare 02 Feb 2008, 09:16

At a South Asia resort last week I regularly saw two cute waiters with very low minus prescriptions. One with rimless, not much more than -1, the other with dark semi rimless was possibly nearer to -2. Lots of other low minus wearers too, probably more than we'd see in Western Europe. Not only were they Guys With Glasses but rather handsome too!

thron 02 Feb 2008, 08:51

what was her prescription?

Puffin 02 Feb 2008, 08:43

Yes, there was once a girl I knew who good at darts - but only with glasses.

thron 02 Feb 2008, 06:53

once a friend of me and his girlfriend and a girlfriend of the girlfrind were going to play billard. we were playing boy vs girls and we were loosing because the gf of my friend was very good at pool. i said to him i think we are loosing. he said wait a moment i know how we can win. he went to his girlfriend and took her the glasses right off her face. she was wearing a -11 prescription. and came back to me. his girlfriend was yelling that she dont like it when he take her glasses away. he gave them back then and we lost. was a very funny experience.

byebye

Poptician 30 Jan 2008, 02:39

I occasionally see two women who are doing their best to keep 80s-style eyewear alive and well. One is a rather large and plain woman, late 30s I'd say, very long brown hair, who dresses in a rather dowdy but not scruffy manner. Her glasses have a clear plastic frame, slightly rounded, with thin sliver metal arms and minus lenses of such weakness that it hardly seems worthwhile wearing them at all. The other woman is around 50, also on the large side but much better dressed and more attractive. Again, her glasses are of clear plastic, but slightly upswept and leading on to thin dark blue arms mounted on the temples. Minus lenses again, but with a bit more heft to them. These glasses have that very bright and clean look that you get when they are new, which makes me think she is an ex-contact wearer who has gone back to glasses for some reason. and taken the last pair she bought out of storage

Slit 29 Jan 2008, 01:02

Walking down the long row of tables in university library, i freezed when i saw one of the thickest plus glasses on a girl of about 22y/o.

This is vry rare in Sri Lanka, a young girl in +3. With excitement i sat one chair behind her to steal some glances... oho! the left lense seemed to be something like -2

This is really intesting because i cant imagine how she goes around withot glasses. (she seem to wear only when studying)

Last night i did a bit of exciting experiment. It was the first time i wore contact lenses. The girl who belong is about -5 each eye, so the lenses gave an effect of +5 hyperopia in my eyes...

I spent some time enjoying the blur. Gosh, the things were really blurry and i wish i could do some GOC with it in a land where no body knows me.

I could see the things but very softly blurred outline only... tried to use my phone, but not a single thing on the phone was recognisable. Key pad was a single big blur, the display unit was only bright but totally illegible.

I could see the mouse pointer in my computer though!

Here is what excites me more... she walks around the house without those lenses or glasses, behaves completely normal.. not a single squint!

Sometimes i feel its very dangerous that she even operates the cooker with that eyesight!

Dreaming of going out with such a high myope/hyperope girl one day...

 26 Jan 2008, 18:17

Wow, DWV, that's the least special sighting ever! rofl

DWV 25 Jan 2008, 19:53

Buying groceries, I faced the usual dilemma of choosing a checkout line. When in doubt, choose the one with the cutest GWG, right? So, I joined the line for a short plump girl who didn't look much over 20. From a distance, I thought she might be wearing lined bifocals. And she was; the bifocal lines were hard to see, even from a few feet away, so I'd guess her add was about +1. Apart from that, her glasses weren't very strong, and the frames were nothing special.

lentifan 24 Jan 2008, 13:46

Driving to work today I was stopped at the traffic lights abreast of a fellow motorist - a young girl (perhaps Muslim) wearing a yellow head-scarf and black plastic -framed glasses. So what, you say. Well, what caught my eye was that the glasses were worn OVER the head-scarf (which was, of course, covering the ears) rather than underneath. I got a view of one leg of her frame unattached to anything. It looked rather odd and no doubt would not conform to Elf'n Safety standards.

I suspect the glasses, being a weak minus, would come off before she got out of the car.

chrisb 21 Jan 2008, 14:04

At Cambridge's ADC theatre on Saturday, I mistook my seat number and ended up sitting next to two studenty girls who, just before the performance began, both whipped out quite similar and spectacular frames. As far as i could tell from surreptitious glances their RX's were at least -2dpt. However having been dumb enough to sit in the wrong seat I didn't want to seem like a complete nutter and compliment them on their glasses and advise full time wear.

"And, apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

It was Julius Caesar, and outstanding.

Phil 21 Jan 2008, 10:46

Strange sighting while out for a meal at a "Gastropub" on Saturday.

On an adjacent table were two couples in their early forties, One of the women looked quite attractive with a nice white shirt with puffed sleeves. During their meal she and the other woman cheked their texts and the attractive one pulled quite strong plus specs out of her bag to do so. When her main course arrived she kept putting the specs on and off while she ate as if she needed them to see what she was eating. The frames were very attracive: semirimless with very thin arms. She wore them at an odd angle so that the ear bits were not behind her ears but in her hair. She messed with them all the time and at one point they dipped into the sauce on her chicken. Eventually she folded them and put them beside her plate.

Despite normally being one for minus gwgs I was transfixed and hated having to leave.

gwgs 18 Jan 2008, 07:25

Lucky you Adalle, sounds like you've had a cracking couple of evenings and well done for getting one out of the closet!

Adalle 18 Jan 2008, 07:00

In continuation of my last post, last night a friend invited us to her place to celebrate her birthday. There were about 20 people in the house and 3 of them were GWG, one of which was my girlfriend. The host decided to show us some videos from her holiday trip with her boyfriend and I saw one bare-eyed girl squinting and struggling to see. I asked her if she had trouble seeing and she admitted that she should wear glasses but she was postponing going for an eye exam for years. The result of that conversation was overwhelming. An exchange and trial of each other’s glasses commenced between both the gwg and the rest of the girls. An OO heaven if I may say so. The outcome was that she should get a prescription of at least -2 and my girlfriend proposed going with her for an eye exam and for choosing glasses. Also everyone agreed that my girlfriend had the most stylish glasses. At that point she turned her sight to me and smiled to me, as she put her glasses back in front of her eyes… I just melted…

Adalle 18 Jan 2008, 06:59

For the last couple of weeks I am in a new relationship. Although I’ve known her for about one year, only recently we saw each other in a more sexual way. All this time she was always bare-eyed. For the second date my new girlfriend invited me at her place. At some point, I went to the bathroom and there, next to the sink, there was a pair of glasses and a contacts’ case. The frames were red and black plastic, small oval in shape, with wide arms and the lenses were of mild minus prescription and with a lot of scratches. I tried them on and when I went out of the bathroom I took them with me. I told her I didn’t know she was nearsighted and she said she didn’t like how she looked with glasses on and that she rarely wears them in public. I convinced her to put them on, still wearing the contacts, just to see how she looked. Of course the comments were very positive and since she got a bit dizzy, I convinced her to take the contacts off. After that she wore the glasses through the whole night, even during sex! I helped her by cleaning the lenses after each sexual act and she seemed very pleased wearing them. She even fell asleep wearing them.

Later on she admitted that since she was a little child, she always wanted to wear glasses but all her relationships disliked her with glasses and I was the first one to really like them. Her prescription is -2.5 on each eye and with a bit of encouragement by me, she decided to purchase new glasses in the coming days. She even talks about getting 2 pairs! Since that night she has never worn her contacts again when she is with me.

That reminded me another relationship I had 7 years ago. I was dating a girl that was also bare-eyed and the first time I went to her place I saw a pair of purple plastic glasses laying on top of a pile of books. She had the exact same prescription and the same concerns about wearing glasses. She had even admitted that she wore glasses all day and had slipped her contacts on just because she knew I was coming in. Of course she was too convinced to put her glasses on and for the rest of our relationship, she almost never wore her contacts when she was with me. Even when she did so, she always had her glasses with her, just to tease me when we would get in the car to drive her back at her place…

sum1wholovesgirlswithglasses 16 Jan 2008, 23:49

i had a very interesting sighting yesterday saw a blonde(probably bleached)myopic woman in a super market she was in her early 40s her eyeglasses prescription may have been -3,5/-4 at first i didnt notice her whilst lookin for a certain magazine somehow i caught her by pure coincidence how she took off her glasses for a few minutes she spent quite some time reading through a couple of magazines since she simply couldnt decide which magazine for woman appeals her the most unfortunatley she left the supermarket as soon her daughter reminded her that they both had other urgen things to take care of boy i felt quite excited seeing this woman bareyed

Clare 12 Jan 2008, 08:19

Ivan

Could be promising, I saw this style in the City last week too!

Ivan 12 Jan 2008, 07:48

-Clare,Looks like I'll be going to Finland on holiday this year :-)They are a nice style though- I hope they catch on here in the UK.I think ladies can carry that off sort of look better than guys though.

Clare 12 Jan 2008, 06:55

Ivan

One of my colleagues wears this style, which you don't see very often. She's from Finland, so maybe it's a Northern European sort of style. I think the Europeans are much more adventurous in their choice of frames.

I think it can look really good (as it does on her). It suits fair haired/fair skinned people (like me) but you rarely see it in the UK.

Ivan 12 Jan 2008, 05:25

Two good sightings today...

At my local shopping mall, a lady,about 30 yo.long blonde hair,slim, about 6-6'2" tall,she had semi-rimless dark gun metal frames,quite a weak rx (about +1 or +2)thing was the frames were far too wide for her narrow face which,imo,didnt look right at all.

2nd sighting,near the same mall, a young lady,about 18 yo,long dark hair,conservative type dress and very cute. she had some clear plastic full frames (no colour at all) with deep side arms and rectangular lenses about -4 or -5.These looked great on her-different and off beat but real nice.At a distance they looked almost invisible but as we approached each other at the traffic crossing her choice of frames (to me)seemed ideal.Never scene that frame style before-maybe a new trend?

sourgrapes 11 Jan 2008, 21:38

I don't care what you look like, but you're probably not used to your new image. The hardest day is the first...

midnight 11 Jan 2008, 18:41

i need someone who isnt my friend and a girls perspective on this names joe i just got glasses and i need to seriously know if i look like a huge dork or if my frames and lenses suit me so i figured this might be the place to ask not going to post a picture on here but if you want to see my email is aah2003aah@yahoo.com if not fine i apologize in advance if this offends anyone its just i have to wear them full time now and am a little self conscious

Glasses Luva 11 Jan 2008, 15:52

Bekka, there is nothing hotter than a pretty plus size lady in specs. A woman that puts the beautiful in the term BBW

Bekka 11 Jan 2008, 15:45

Glasses Luva: At 200 lbs, your dream girl will not be too hard to spot.

Puffin 11 Jan 2008, 14:21

You'd be surprised where I hang out some days but yesterday I was at the launderette, waiting for the machine, and in walked this 30-something stunner wearing glasses. I suppose about -3 or -4 modern fashion plastic frames. I think I'll be going back in a week or two!

Glasses Luva 11 Jan 2008, 09:31

The mall is usually a great spot for gwg sightings. I recently saw my "dream girl" there. She had an absolutely gorgeous face, plus sized, and wore glasses that were probably in the -3 range. I'd guess she was about 5'9 and weighed around 200 pounds.

Glasses Luva 11 Jan 2008, 09:30

The mall is usually a great spot for gwg sightings. I recently saw my "dream girl" there. She had an absolutely gorgeous face, plus sized, and wore glasses that were probably in the -3 range. I'd guess she was about 5'9 and weighed around 200 pounds.

glasses luva 10 Jan 2008, 21:42

glasses luva 10 Jan 2008, 21:40

Poptician 10 Jan 2008, 03:50

Update on yesterday's report. Today she seems to have left her glasses at home, and consequently is bare-eyed and peering myopically at the screen on her PC. Now, if only she chose to go full-time, she wouldn't have that problem, would she....

Puffin 09 Jan 2008, 17:41

Actually that reminds me of a similar aged woman at work who went from bare eyed, to wearing them for close work, then gradually full time over the space of a couple of years. They're quite strong, about plus 5 or so.

Phil 09 Jan 2008, 01:51

Poptician, That's just a yum sighting. I remember the same thing happening to girls when I was at school. First specs for distance, when looking at the blackboard, the conductor in school choir or the head in assembly. Then they were kept on when out on street and learning to drive. And finally fulltime! The changes were usually accompanied by a change of frames. I bet they all have varifocals now!

It's not so easy to see this sort of progress outside a large community like a school or big workplace. But it is immensely nice when one does.

I think opticians often advise part time wear when one is first diagnosed as myopic. Then on an increase in rx (when one is used to specs) they suggest going fulltime.

Poptician 09 Jan 2008, 01:35

This is what you might call a long-term sighting. A few months ago, a 40-something woman in the office - no great beauty, but a very pleasant person - started wearing glasses at her desk. Ovalish kind of tortoiseshell plastic, with wide sides, and they appeared to have weakish minus lenses. She'd put them on shortly after arrival at work, keep them on most of the time, and then remove them when she went out at lunchtime, following which she'd put them on again on return to her desk. On departure at the end of the day, off would come the glasses. After a while, she'd go out at lunchtime with her glasses on, but still remove them at hometime. Now it's reached the point where she leaves the office at night still bespectacled. It's nice to see a gradual progression towards full time wear, and I guess it's only a question of time before she turns up in her glasses at the start of the day.

Puffin 08 Jan 2008, 17:37

A sighting at work today, the person who happened to sit next to me happened to be a 50-something woman who at one point put on readers!

I've noticed a few in the last year, they furtively put them on to look at something they can't read, partially hidden by hair, etc, and the next time you look they are gone, as if they were never there. But for an OO like me I store it away, looking for the next time.

Ian 08 Jan 2008, 07:52

Sorry about posting twice!

Ian 08 Jan 2008, 07:51

I went to Brighton at the weekend. It is great for GWG sightings, they have good fashion sense. Every road has loads of opticians in them, they are everywhere. So good for spotting girls trying on glasses aswell !!!!!

Ian 08 Jan 2008, 07:50

I went to Brighton at the weekend. It is great for GWG sightings, they have good fashion sense. Every road has loads of opticians in them, they are everywhere. So good for spotting girls trying on glasses aswell !!!!!

Alan 07 Jan 2008, 14:01

I've been complaining for months last year that some of the best looking GWGs on my regular train had stopped travelling or were wearing contacts.

However, there is hope! Both on Friday and this morning, the three best (and longest wearers with out a pair of glasses for several months) have all been seen in NEW SPECS.

There is a -10 with quite large, thick rimless ones with a double V shaped side frame (really used to look better in a nice pair of burgundy plastic with broad sideframes).

The second, about -8 has started to wear semi-rimless with a dark metal frame and sidepieces which look really good, much better than her pre-contact thick plastic tortoiseshell ones. Glasses camoflage her big nose, and she looks really pretty.

The third is a real stunner whatever she wears with long dark hair. She used to wear a different pair of -4s every day. She must have had 10 pairs - then she became bare eyed. Terrible pity. Now she has re-started, with two different pairs, a rimless and a gunmetla pair with broad sideframes.

Martin 07 Jan 2008, 13:51

Tube this morning was very busy with the first full working day after Xmas. Actually couldn't get on the firdt 2 N Line trains and had to resort to squeezing on the third one. Found myself almost eye to eye with a young asian girl with small oval specs in a good minus script, probably close to -10 as not hi- index. After a few stops, train unloaded a lot of people and a few got on. Standing beside me was a smashing little blonde with a really beautiful face and a pair of REALLY strong tiny metal ovals with at least 10mm edges. When she looked my way, her eyes were really tiny with massive cut-in. It was hard to get a good look at her face as she was tiny and I was looking over the top of her head. She only stayed two stops, but was a real stunner.

Adalle 07 Jan 2008, 13:50

A non-sighting from last night. I was at the cinema with friends and as we were waiting, I noticed one of them had really red watery eyes. I knew already she always wears contacts and is about -8, so the red eyes caught my attention and I asked her about. She said that with the coming of the New Year, she had gone out, got a little drunk and went back home in the morning. She went to the bathroom to take off her contacts and after she had done so, she reached for her glasses which were next to the sink. As she was exhausted, a bit drunk and with totally blurry vision, she accidentally pushed her glasses off the sink. In her own words, they flew and landed with a cracking noise on the floor. One lens cracked and the other one popped out and shattered into pieces...

So she was without glasses since New Year's Day and in order to see, she had to wear the contacts all day. She will get her fixed glasses tomorrow. As we talked, I convinced her to purchase an additional pair in the following days to avoid any mishappenings in the future. I might even accompany her to the optics for my opinion.

Puffin 04 Jan 2008, 20:22

mmm, often when someone starts reeling off their entire history of glasses I have to maintain an illusion of not being interested whilst listening very hard!

Therouteur 04 Jan 2008, 18:29

Is it unique to see Julian "in this place" as they say in Parliament? Nice though

Spike 02 Jan 2008, 13:07

Dragged round the supermarket yesterday to carry the shopping even though they have carts!

Saw three fairly strongly myopic ladies in their 20s in different parts of the store, all with modern frames and high index glass lenses, but very heavy cut-in and significant power rings. The only one without wide side frames must have had at least 1/4" thick glass at the edges.

Went in line behind one who had only a small basket of groceries, with a checkout operator with a long dark ponytail and about -3 specs. Just as the myopic girl got to the checkout, the ponytail operator said it was time for her break and a supervisor with oversize aviator style glasses with the heaviest cut-in of all took over. She held items that would not scan about 6" from her face to read the bar code.

When she had finished, a new cashier appeared and took over. She was 18, trim, perky, and wearing fairly strong plus glasses. My wife, who was doing the business while I stood about (not even allowed to pack in case I got the wrong things in the same bag)got chatting to the girl, who asked how she liked her new glasses. I listened with interest as the cashier chatted away giving the history of her eyesight and glasses wearing. She started at 3, wore a patch for 4 years to "straighten" her right eye and "her glasses get stronger each year, even through her teens and school". She was now wearing +8 & +9 and the doctor had said "be prepared for double figures and bifocals next year". She was totally un-fazed by her increasingly poor sight and commented that "she loved to get new glasses! It made her feel a different person" I was amazed at the conversation with a complete (un-bespectacled) stranger.

My wife was faintly amused at the chatty cashier and said "I'm glad that I don't have to wear glasses like that!" I wished the absolute opposite!

Danny 02 Jan 2008, 07:13

On a different train into London this morning cos they haven't finished the engineering works that started last year.

Saw a group of 4 women(ages late teens early 20s) Typlical grouo of East Londerers, 2 asian, 1 white and 2 afrocaribean. One of the afrocaribean women had pale blue eyes, and must of had very poor vision as her friends were guiding to her seat and reading gossip stories from a magazine. When they got off the train she put on a pair of highly tinted plus bifocal glasses must have been about +8 (but im no expert in guessing plus rxs)

Trent 01 Jan 2008, 13:49

Was at the drug store picking up a few things yesterday. Cued up at the till waiting to pay for the good when I spotted the Cashier, see was wearing some of the strongest glasses that I have ever seen!!!! I'm telling you they must have been -18 or better. The cut-in was amazing and her eyes looked small as peas behind those thick pieces of plastic. The lenses obviously were high-index still the edge thickness was close to ½ inch sticking out of the square wire frames!!!. Wow you know where I will be doing my shopping from now on!

Millhouse 31 Dec 2007, 01:11

- Ladies, gentlemen, and OO’s – please, lets just ignore the Trolls.

Julian 31 Dec 2007, 01:11

I know I commented on other people's taste; but I could hardly fail to notice that Benazir Bhuto's 19-year-old son Bilawal, who is succeeding his mother (assisted by his father until he competes his degree at Oxford) is an extremely handsome BWG. See http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/world/asia/31pakistan.html

gwg admirer 30 Dec 2007, 18:18

has your myopia increased after you died, due to your body no longer functioning?

 30 Dec 2007, 15:57

What you are is in DISRESPECTFUL BAD TASTE

Benazir BHUTTO 30 Dec 2007, 15:51

wooooo I'm a ghostly gwg

Chris 30 Dec 2007, 03:44

Well I like to the think that the anonymous posts were ironic and having a dig at the sad individuals here who seem to view Ms Bhutto's only contribution to the world as that of gwg for their own gratification. Irony, however, appears to be wasted here.

Julian 29 Dec 2007, 22:48

or even speculations ...

Julian 29 Dec 2007, 22:47

Can't help agreeing with Puffin: these anonymous speulations are not in the best of taste right now.

 29 Dec 2007, 20:14

I wonder what they'll do with her glasses

Puffin 29 Dec 2007, 17:23

That's a question for another time methinks

 29 Dec 2007, 12:47

did anyone get her rx?

Breaking News 27 Dec 2007, 06:36

SAD to report that a longtime hot glasses wearer, Benazir BHUTTO, was assassinated this morning by a suicide bomber. Particularly in her younger days, her dark frames were very sexy on her beautiful face. She WILL be missed...

Julan....No, not that one 27 Dec 2007, 01:33

Great encounter Xmas day at my sisters. Her new neighbour was there, about 35 5'8 brunette wearing some HUGE Dolce Gabanna glasses, thick black plastic, aviator type style with white sides and an enormous DG logo in red. We chatted and she is -6, quite a lot of cut in, turns out she is a bit of an OO and has 6 pairs, all bold designer styles. A great time was had and i am hoping to meet her soon

lazysiow 26 Dec 2007, 17:46

Had the most unique sighting of my life yesterday while at a chinese grocery store.

An attractive chinese girl in her early 20's came in with a boyfriend or brother who was wearing a high rx, likely -6 or -8 in high index metal frames, however this sighting is about the girl :) She wore some black retangular frames with wide sides but as I was trying to guess her prescription I noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with her lenses.. i.e. she didnt have any lol.

I started out by looking at the right side as she was standing next to me, and then I found an excuse to go around her to look at the left side since I thought maybe she had broken them and was just wearing the one side.. nope! nothing in the other side either, just empty frames She was wearing them just for fashion or maybe on a burgeoning kink on her way to being one of us? ;) the most interesting thing was that she was playing with them, pushing them up and adjusting and squinting etc just like a regular glasses wearing person would. Trying the frames?

After a while she whipped them off kind of self consciously and just walked around holding them for awhile before putting them back in a case in her handbag. If it wasn't for the other guy.. AUGH! I would have loved to talk to her.

Adalle 26 Dec 2007, 09:47

Three great sightings this week.

First, a week ago I went to the cinema and the cashier was a beautiful 20-ish woman with brown hair in a ponytail, blue eyes and was wearing a -2 to -3 pair of glasses. They were dark purple with tints of red, oval and thin around the lenses, but with emphatic wide arms that gradually thinned towards the ears. The glasses were resting at the lower half of her nose and as she was looking towards the computer, I could see her blue eyes above her glasses and her chicks were wonderfully showing the cut-in of the lenses. She lifted her head to ask me about the seats and gently and very sexually pushed with her hand the lower part of the frames, just to put them a bit above the half of her nose. When she looked again at the computer the frames immediately slid down again and after she gave me the tickets she picked one arm of the frames with two of her fingers and brought her glasses all the way up. I wanted so much to talk to her but I was with a female company and I couldn’t say anything.

3 days ago, I was at a bar and a friend’s ex-girlfriend dropped by. Never before had I seen her with glasses, but now she had on a new pair of dark red plastic frames with zebra-style red and black wide arms. I commented on her glasses and she told me they were -1.5 and -2 and she had just recently bought them. After a while she took them off and laid them on the table, only to put them back on when she left.

Finally the day before yesterday, at a friend’s party, a 20-ish year old girl showed up with plastic rectangular frames that started with light brown color on the lower side that gradually turned to dark brown on the upper side. Her glasses were constantly fitted on most top part of her nose and never slid down. She was sitting opposite of me and I could have a great look on her cut-in. Her left lens must have been at least -7 while her right lens was significantly lower around -3.

Great sightings 23 Dec 2007, 14:05

Great sighting day at the local supermarket, 5 mid to high myopic girl:

1- Young girl about 19 with at least -10 but maybe more

2- Two Latinas they seemed sisters both around -6 and with prescription sunglasses

3- Mid 40 woman very beautiful slim body with strong around -12/14 glasses squinting a lot.

4- The best sighting also squinting hard a 20 something girl at the deli counter with at least -12s.

The reason I know about glasses is that I had 3 girlfriends with high minus prescription the lowest one being -9.

Ivan 23 Dec 2007, 04:17

Out last night at a band night up my local pub-

A Woman,about 26/29 yo,longish straight brown hair,nice figure (full but not heavy)with dark metal round frames,quite large.like those from the late 80's/early 90's.low rx,about -2 perhaps, even with the large lens's they werent that thick.Kind of a slight retro look I thought.Funny though as they did look good on her.maybe she just hadnt changed them for a few years!

Same night later on........

A slim attractive woman about 30 yo with a short blonde bob style haircut with a pale complexion.She had dark red plastic semi-rectangular frames with a good rx as I could see some cut-in.Also the lens's had a soft grey tint and,even more surprising, they were bi-focal.Thats a first sighting for me on such a younger great looking gwg.I had a treat later when she danced in front of me as I watched the band playing.Great stuff!Guess where I'm going New years eve?

Martyn 17 Dec 2007, 16:26

Hi, Jennifer, Charlotte, Emily, just a little note to say hi and wish you a very Merry Xmas and very prosperous and Happy New Year, miss you a lots since the chat room in here closed, your in my thoughts often,Take care Martyn xx

Julian 17 Dec 2007, 02:26

BillyE: that's what I call a sighting! Reminds me of a barman I jotted about years ago, so long ago it was on the old BBS, who squinted whenever he looked across the room. I never did see him in glasses, so didn't get to know whether he took them off to work or didn't know he needed them. The sight of a guy persistently squinting like that gives me a special kind of rush, and it's fascinating when (or if) he finally gives in and puts on a pair of specs. No doubt you'll keep us posted about your myopic youth.

BillyE 16 Dec 2007, 08:48

There’s a local coffee shop that I visit fairly regularly. For the past couple of months there’s been a young guy working there, usually at the weekends. I guess he’s about 17 or 18. He’s quite short and stocky, with hair in that slightly long, shaggy style that seems to be in vogue at the minute. His hair is dark blonde and, I think, he’s got green eyes. The most noticeable thing about him is that he has a tendency to squint when he has to focus on something in the distance. He’s a friendly young man who I’ve chatted to a couple of times about general things, such as football and the weather.

On Saturday when I went in he was stood behind the counter in a pair of glasses. I don’t think that they were new, they were greeny-blue metal frames, and the frames looked slightly battered. When he turned to the coffee machine, I got a look through the lenses. There was some minification, but not that much; I’d guess that there were somewhere around the –1.5 mark.

I got a seat opposite the counter to drink my coffee. It seemed to me that the young lad was not especially comfortable wearing his glasses. He kept pushing them up his nose in a self conscious way. I’ve definitely not seen him in glasses before and I think from the way he was behaving he’s probably not really used to wearing them much. I wonder what made him start to wear glasses – was he just wearing them because he realised that he needed them for work? Had he started wearing his glasses full time? Had full time wear been recommended by the optician? (If so, I suspect the current pair are just a stopgap until new lenses or glasses arrive). If the place hadn’t been so busy and if he hadn’t appeared so self-conscious about the glasses, I might have made a comment about them. Instead, I’ll have to pop back to see if he is still wearing them.

Ivan 16 Dec 2007, 04:29

Out at my local pub last night- a couple arrived and as they walked in their glasses steamed up straight away as it was so very cold outside.She about 35 yo,dark hair,curvy,quite attractive in very small oval lenses in black metal frames about -3/-4 rx or so but may have been much higher as the lenses' were so small.Looked very nice in them.She almost straight away took them off and muttered about not being able to see much and then tried to de-mist them without much success.He,about 45 yo,greying short hair in a semi-rimless frame also about -3.A bit bland on him I thought.He kept his on for a while till they cleared (which is what I do) Funny thing is his lady kept hers off for the rest of the evening.she was squinting a lot and That really got my attention-she just couldnt see much at all.Not even me looking at her quite a bit (I was only 6-8 feet away from their table)It may be she doesnt like wearing them out anyway but it was an interesting sighting.Had I got the chance I would have commented (in a casual subtle way) how good they looked on her.

i-c 13 Dec 2007, 08:03

I just noticed my horrific grammar in the last post, I think I was getting a little involved in my own world of what I had seen and not concentrating on typing.

Frosted gets my vote; frosted is far more noticeable and nicer to the touch. Polished lenses tend to blend in more with the plastic frames or rimless' which I don't like and it can therefore be hard to the onlooker as to where the frame ends and the lens begins. No to high index also!

Lens thickness is be something every girl should be proud of!

Ivan 13 Dec 2007, 04:28

i-c.

I'm sure you have noticed some edges of plastic lenses either have a clear or frosted appearance (mine are clear on the semi-rimless and generally "frosted" on the full frames) I guess clear to reduce the lens' appearance for cosmetic reasons. There was a girl I knew by sight from my local pub a year or two back who had small oval lenses, about -8 or -9 I would think, in a full metal frame.I really liked the look of that,kinda made it more appealing to me.do you notice the lens polished or not? I prefer not myself.hmnn... A new thread post maybe?

lenses polished or "frosted" - or is there an eyescene short hand for that description in sightings?

i-c 13 Dec 2007, 04:03

Ivan, they most definitely poly lenses not glass ones as some of my glasses I get my girlfriend to wear have glass lenses and you can tell the different in the appearance and lens thickness and these were definitely modern style lenses.

Ivan 13 Dec 2007, 02:03

i-c-

Its always a treat to see lovely ladies like that.She does sound very nice,a good strength rx too.

I suspect if the frames are slowly sliding down her nose then they may be quite heavy,perhaps glass lenses' rather than poly's.I have a -7/-6.5 rx in high index plastic zeiss material and they can tend to move on me a bit sometimes.thing is if the frames are too tight around the temple (or back of the ears) they can get quite uncomfortable.too loose and i'm forever pushing them back !I use my semi-rimless ones if i want a "lighter feel" sometimes.Anyway-Lets hope with the xmas parties in full swing we get some good sightings!

i-c 13 Dec 2007, 01:38

Spotted a cute gwg in a jewellery shop last week through the shop window and fortunately my girlfriend wanted to go in and have a mooch around, much to my delight!

This gwg was hot, she was about 5ft 5in, brown hair, slight tan to her skin. When I first entered the shop she had her back to me and I could only see her glasses were half way down her nose and these was quite some lens thickness with her prescription probably around -5.5. A couple of times I moved next to her to look at the jewellery (ahem...her) and she then finally pushed her dainty rimless ovals up and the minification and power rings were fantastic. I wondered whether the lenses were high index as the power rings and cut in far exaggerated my girlfriends -5.25's, could she have been double this prescription??

My girlfriend accidently brushed past her and apologised, the tanned beauty nonchanantly smiled at her whilst pushing her glasses back up again.

I got a couple more glimpses of her and wondered who was her lucky fella and then she left the shop and my world :(

Seeker 12 Dec 2007, 22:06

Cactus Jack,

a friend of mine was keen on Ortho-K but at the time they said -6.5 was too strong an RX to use it. She was also concerned about the 'fade back' and how gradual it was as she did'nt want to find when she had gone back to say -3 that she had to put on her glasses which for a while would be too strong.

Cactus Jack 12 Dec 2007, 16:54

Steve,

It probably could, but it would likely have the same duration as the correction, if you could get someone to make some lenses for you. They are rather pricey. The better thing is to try to induce myopia or failing that do GOC.

The problem is that true myopia is caused by a mismatch between the length of the eyeball and the refractive power of the cornea/crystaline lens duo. The cornea is generally the more powerful of the two, but the Ortho lenses affect only the surface shape of the lens and not its overall shape and thickness of the cornea as refractive surgery does.

C.

Steve 12 Dec 2007, 15:00

Whilst at a Christmas celebration last night, we became involved in an extremely interesting conversation.

A work colleagues' girlfriend had joined us for drinks. On the occassions we have met previously she always makes it public that her eyesight is terrible. But she says that she's never worn glasses. Her Rx was not divulged, so knowing exaggeration is one of her traits, I wonder how 'terrible' her eyesight actually is?

This same 'self-indentification' process unfolded last night, she then told us that she temporarily cures her nearsightedness by 'ortho' therapy. (I later found out via the internet, this is known as Orthokeratology.) According to her it involves having ones eyes topographically scanned and then custom made 'hard' contacts fitted to correct the irregularity of the corneas themselves, which create the degree of myopia. These contacts she told us are worn during sleep to reshape the corneas. Then she can see 20/20, without correction until the next session of wear. This gradually wears off so then inserts the contacts a couple of nights later to 'retain' the improvement in sight.

Having never having heard of this before, I was intrigued to its use and effectiveness.

I couldn't resist questioning her whether her eyesight got increasingly myopic during the day. Her reply was along the lines of; 'sometimes but it's not enough to need any correction'.

A supplementary question which struck me at the time, and with more thought, (hopefully can be answered here), is can this method of Orthokeratology be used in reverse to temporarily make one more nearsighted?

Ivan 09 Dec 2007, 07:33

No good sightings at the pub with the bands on last night.must be all the gwg's at christmas parties.Anyway...at my local supermarket today,a young dark long haired girl about 18/20 yo.oval (ish)dark gunmetal colored frams with about -2 or -3 rx.got a good view of the edges of the lens in the frame.they may have been a high index type so the rx may really have been stronger.she semed very confident in them (always a nice thing)and had a nice look and appeal to me.im going to another music venue tonight where a lot of gwg's go so a good sighting is on the cards for later!

Phil 07 Dec 2007, 03:46

Ivan, I quite like that "double arm" style. Good luck: I hope she's there. She sounds yummy.

Ivan 07 Dec 2007, 03:43

Phil- she sounds lovely.Just the right rx too.I'm off to see some bands later Tonght and Saturday at my local pub and I'm hoping to see the lady I spotted a few weeks back-the curvy blonde with the -3/-4 and double arms on the frames.If she's there I'm going to try to have a chat with her.I'll post Sunday if I see her (or any other good sightings)

Phil 07 Dec 2007, 03:33

I sat next to a lovely gwg on the train to work this morning. She was in her 40s with masses of wild black hair and wore a really nice pair of semi-rimless specs with bright new lenses, very slightly blue. I would say she was about -5 or so. She was just perfect.

hooked 06 Dec 2007, 01:18

I had a non-sighting.

When I go home from office by bus sometimes a girl (around 16 to 18) takes the same bus.

She had glasses I estimate them around +3.

On Monday she appeared without glasses.

I think she changed to those damned contacts.

She looked better in glasses than in contacts even if I didn't find her that attrative at all.

sum1wholovesgirlswithglasses  05 Dec 2007, 19:58

...esspecially young folks

sum1wholovesgirlswithglasses  05 Dec 2007, 19:56

i had 2 significant sightings lately

first one was at a butchers shop,i immediatley noticed a woman who was in her

early thirties she wore huge rectangular red rimmed glasses i estimated her prescription to be way over than -12 actually couldnt believe that she wore such a huge frame considering her high myopia.unfortunatley i didnt enjoy this sighting for some reason normally i mostly get excited whenever i encounter girls/woman in glasses but it was differen

this time as a matter of fact i pitied her for having poor vision.maybe im not used to seeing woman with extreme nearsightedness sightings like this are rare anyway

my next discovery

were 2 young females blond/brunette age around 19-20 which both i met in my favourite supermarket

the blond one was a low myope probably minus 1,5/-2 her nice frame gold (half rimless)her friend on the other hand was

a moderate hyperope(+4)gosh this girl looked extraordinarily beautyful with her black rimmed rectangular glasses.it matched axactly to her face,this left me wonder why we dont see many farsighted people wearing their spectacles

lentifan 05 Dec 2007, 13:12

A girl (well, OK, woman) who often is at the till in a shop I use weekly was a but dowdy looking when she first started working there - oversize and very round and dated-looking NHS style brown wire frames. But with a fair minus prescription which of course caught my eye - maybe -12 / -14.#

She then migrated to quite sophisticated and expensive looking rectangular red metal frames with obviously high-index lenses. The cut-in was still quite significant, though, and she suited them very well.

Now, she's bare eyed and presumably, to judge by the blinking, wearing CLs. A mistake. Her large dull brown eyes are not her best feature and, in addition to the blinking, have that 'something not quite right about them' look. I wonder if her husband agrees with me

Val 04 Dec 2007, 23:44

Last year, one of my female coworkers, who used to wear low plus glasses, for at least 5 years, shows up at work with new glasses, but low minus. I was intrigued. When I had the opportunity I asked her about the change. She said that in the last month she had some eye strains and her eye doctor decided to change her prescription from plus to minus. She is a natural blonde, 42 years old, and wears gold rimmed metal glasses. Very nice.

Phil 04 Dec 2007, 04:50

Goodness, that is intriguing. I've had something similar with a gorgeous gwg who takes the same train as me. She had some metal frames which boasted what I was sure were minus lenses and she sometimes donned them just before she got off train to get to work. Then she acquired a trendy new pair with wide arms (in black which so suits her long blonde hair). To my surprise she now gets them out to read her paper and, though she very occasionally keeps them on when she leaves the train, she often puts them away when she's finished her paper. The lenses look different though are not obviously plus. I wonder whether it's a case of astigmatism?

Poptician 04 Dec 2007, 02:14

Intriguing sighting over the weekend. There's a girl of about 16 or so who works in a local supermarket at weekends. No great beauty, but she wore small black metal-framed glasses with weak plus lenses. Now she has some new glasses with a more stylish frame, and.... weak minus lenses. Not quite sure why that should be.

Protruding guest  02 Dec 2007, 14:03

Thank you, Julian.

Actually I've been reading this forum for many years, but never contributed much. I'm having a 'wet test' next monday, I'll post my story and prescription afterwards.

matthew 01 Dec 2007, 15:34

ps:

farsighted i meant of course, not nearsighed. too exited to write properly.

matthew 01 Dec 2007, 15:33

today, in a pub. the most beautiful women i've seen told friends, she'd had gotten her first pair of glasses today, reading glasses, for she found out she's nearsighted. The friend she told it to did not show interest, just said "thank god i don't need 'em" but later she went to a couple of tables next to us wearing her spex, but I did not wear mine (-2s with astigmatism, that sounds weak to all of you but I could not see a thing in the dark) - I thought i'd explode but I just couldn't tell her "show me how you look like"... man, really, it makes go so ARRRRRRGH, a incredibly beautiful low hyperope, 21 years old with spex for reading !

Julian 01 Dec 2007, 01:20

Protruding guest: welcome, and congratulations on a dream come true! I do remember the thrill of getting my first glasses though I was a lot younger than you and my (plus) Rx was a lot lower. But surely you have a story to tell: I immediately wondered how you discovered your hyperopia, and whether you're wearing your full Rx. Please feel free to flesh the story out a bit...you don't necessarily have to do it at as much length as our good friend Macrae has done on the hyperopia and presbyopia progression thread, but make yourself at home here, don't feel you have to call yourself a guest, you're one of the family now (and for my money you always have been!)

Protruding guest 01 Dec 2007, 00:34

I personally have eyes such as described here (I'm male). I've been checked for Thyroid problems many times but found out I was fine. Recently I discovered I was a (pretty high) latent hyperhope (around +5, I'm 33). Over the years I've noticed many high myopes with eyese like mine. My theory now is that it's the result of trying to accomodate to a perscription higher than neccassery, hence the same effect I have. With other it is an overworked Thyroid gland of course, but then there are many other symptoms as well. Imagine dicovering you need a pretty high perscription after years of being a glasess fetishist... I'm happy/confused, at times it feels like doing GOC :)

Tim 30 Nov 2007, 21:11

Lentifan - I'm right with you! I once met a girl like that and used to fantasise about the myodiscs she would hopefully produce when she took out her contacts at night. I dated her a few times, but alas she never did. It turned out to be a thyroid problem after all! Those wonderful stary eyes proved to be her only interesting feature anyway....

Slit 30 Nov 2007, 06:24

Awesome sighting...

Today as i got off the bus i saw a nice slender girls with two other friends, out of which one wore mild minus glasses.

The slender girls eyes seemed to be quite big behind glasses, very attractive, shiney and elegent. I actually couldnt judge the rx, because it was something rarely expectable to see a young girl below 40 with glasses!

Aha! I crossed the road just in front of her and here she stands with something around +5! She had a pretty much casual look, sometimes looked over the lense at far away...

Anyway, thanks god sri lankan opticians are understanding young crowd also deserve plus glasses!

 29 Nov 2007, 00:03

Uhh.. drugs?

lentifan 28 Nov 2007, 12:44

Not sure if this is the right thread, but I have very occasionally seen one or two people with very large protruding eyes with very noticeably large black pupils. I'm not sure if the pupils really are blacker than normal or just seem so because they are so large.

I assumed these people were high myopes wearing contact lenses. Does anyone else here know what I'm talking about, and can they confirm my supposition or is it some other cause (thyroid, say?).

I was reminded of this today when I noticed a very attractive young lady with such eyes. The movements of her eyes seemed somewhat jerky and exaggerated, again perhaps only because they were so large and obvious.

I got to imagining her wearing myodiscs when she took out her contacts, but enough of that...........

lentifan 23 Nov 2007, 17:21

Just back from a holiday on the Mediterraenean. One very surprising sight was a brief appearance of a young (well, under 40 - young for me) and fanciable lady wearing myodiscs. I saw her as I was queuing in a shop. She was dark-haired and wearing a large straw hat; definitely a tourist, not a local. I'd say Northern European. She was wearing pretty standard black wire-rimmed ovals and the lenses were stunning! Plain straight-forward myodiscs, not blended, and they looked strong; I'd say -30 or so.

She was standing looking bored while her husband/partner studied something on a stand at the front of the shop. She made a strange stretching motion with her face which invoved a roll of the eyes. I wasn't sure whether this was a one-off or some nervous spasm.

Being already in the queue I thought I'd attract attention if I abandoned my place in it to follow her.

Alas, it took longer than i expected to get served and when I emerged there was no sign of them. I spent the rest of the week surreptitiously looking out for her, but not a sniff!

Had she been staying at our hotel I don't know what I'd have done. As it was, there was a girl wearing the thickest-lensed rimless glasses I've seen, who attrated quite a lot of my attention. There seemed to be three sisters, the older two with boyfriends/partners, the youngest (and prettiest) without. It was the oldest who caught my eye.

Her lenses were, as I say, thick (perhaps half an inch),and the frames were wide. I felt they were actually too wide for her face- sort of upswept rounded rectangles, if that makes any sense. The minification and power rings were such that I actually was surprised that the lenses were not thicker and I wondered whether they were not carefully blended myodiscs. I never saw her outdoors, but only at mealtimes, and try as I might I could not get close enough for long enough to decide. She didn't really have a figure for a bikini but it would have been interesting.

At least I wasn't bored!

Mister Mild 18 Nov 2007, 19:44

And another with those double arms, so fashionable in Europe earlier this year... a woman of olive complexion, late twenties perhaps, dark hair pulled back, the frames semi-rectangular black anodised metal and with significant minus to create a few power rings and a hint of plano reflection. It was all too brief a glimpse, in a busy shopping mall.

Steve 18 Nov 2007, 14:47

On the beach this afternoon lay two women in their early thirties, both bespectacled. The first one very classic wireless frames, rather strong lenses of about 7mm thick each. The second one in thin darkgreen oval plastic frames, very significant cut-in but thin lenses.

They went for a swim and the first one took her glasses off, while the second kept them on.

lazysiow 18 Nov 2007, 05:54

I wish I could have seen her Ivan, I am similarly awestruck by those double arm frames every time I see them. Especially around that rx range :)

Ivan 18 Nov 2007, 04:09

At my local pub last night we had a 70's tribute band playing which drew a large crowd of women.one was a lovely curvy blonde,about 30 yo,with some cute gold metal oval(ish) frames with double arms on each side about 1.5 cm apart.rx looked about -4 or -5 with slight cut in.They looked and suited her perfectly.I just couldnt take my eyes off her.It's not often I see such a perfect style for such a lovely woman.I hope I spot her there again sometime!

ES-Visitor 16 Nov 2007, 05:18

At a supermarket, a young lady, 25ish, wearing thick plastic black frames with minus lenses, fairly strong, -4 or so, what was suprising was that one of the lenses was protruding from the front, I don't know whether it was because of thickness... She made my day...

ChrisB 14 Nov 2007, 15:47

Back to the village pub tonight and there again was Vicki the barmaid. Tonight she had different frames - these were large square frames in brown plastic. Much more relaxed looking.It was easier to detect her rx which I guess is about -3. Complemented her on different glasses.

Went home, thought about having a cold shower!!!

johnny 10 Nov 2007, 23:59

Wow... I saw a woman today at a friend's event, she looked just like Lucy Lawless did in the Zena TV series, with jet black hair. Only this one wore strong minus glasses in a black plastic rectangular frame. My best estimation is around -16. Too bad we're both maried. :-(

Puffin 09 Nov 2007, 17:52

I've noticed this too on occasion. Perhaps they just like the interest? I have no idea.

chrisB 09 Nov 2007, 17:14

To my local pub this evening and was surprised to the extent of doing a double take, to find there was a lovely GWG barmaid who has worked there before, but left about 3 years ago.

Vicki is about 6' with medium length blonde hair and black frames with an RX of -2 or 3, I guess. (I will ask her next time) Although she's quite a big girl she's well proportioned. We chatted briefly and seemed pleased that I recognised her but I didnt get a chance to comment on her glasses - and particularly the fact that she's still wearing them. (no lasiK or contacts)

I calculate she's about 24 now as when she first started working at the pub about 7 years ago she was 17. I do remember embarassingly slighly drunken conversations where I was saying how good she looked in the then recently acquired glasses.

I think we (OOs) sometimes forget that our admiring glances /smiles and friendly gestures or even surruptiscous stalking are rarely a one way street. We may unknowingly influence the subject too.

This could be a new thread - perhaps ?

I certainly know of at least two occasions where i have inadvertently caused an impact. Fortunately, nothing malign as far as I know.

chris

Emily 08 Nov 2007, 16:58

Hi Slit

First time checking in in a while and I noticed your question about when lenses start being flat on the front surface. I had glasses is the mid -8's and they had a slight front curvature. My next RX was -9.25 and -9.50, and they were totally flat, and have been ever since. So it seems that flat fronts start at around -9.

Anthony 06 Nov 2007, 14:47

Jennifer, I visit a spa twice a month together with my wife, and nothing unusual there to spot women in glasses. My wife (who is -4.5 in each eye) also likes to keep on her glasses for the sake of good vision. Not her usual pair but cheaper plastic frames. She only removes them when sitting in a sauna or jaccuzzi for a longer period.

Jennifer 06 Nov 2007, 11:27

A very interesting conversation took place yesterday at the office. Two female coworkers who wear glasses were talking. One wears strong glasses (about -10) the other about -4. The one with -4 glasses started telling us how she needs to wear her glasses when she sits in the spa because she "can't see beyond her nose" without her glasses. The -10 glasses girl said, why? "I just take them off and put them on the side." The one with the -4 glasses said she hates to look at "blobs". She wants to see clearly. She told us how she hates to take off her glasses when going to bed and her husband is watching T.V. He always insists that she look at things and she can't see without her glasses. She told us her current frames are old, but she loves them so much that she can't stop wearing them. Her new frames didn't fit properly and kept sliding down her nose. She demonstrated how they kept sliding down on her face. Those glasses need to get adjusted, but she'd rather wear her old glasses then take the new ones back for the adjustment.

Martin 05 Nov 2007, 15:22

A truly fantastic speccy day today.

On the train first off, a young lady with a reasonable minus prescription (-4)sat on the seat beside me. Small neat modern frame with high index lenses and a little visible thickness at the edges.

On the tube, I was squeezed close between two significant myopes. The smaller one, I did not see front on, but she had small round gold metal frames with at least 5mm edge thickness. The taller one faced me the whole journey and the cut-in (again on small rectangular metal frames) reduced both sides of her face by about 2 cm, so must have been -10 at least with lots of power rings.

This evening, I travelled part way by bus and sat beside a twenty something with frizzy blonde hair and low plus glasses in avery unusual frame. A thin wire which ran the whole way, without hinges from one ear across the face to the other ear with the nosepieces and lenses held by a sort of T piece connected to the wire in the centre only.

On the way home in the train, a girl with long dark hair sat beside me, removed her contacts and put on a modern wide sideframed pair of signifcant minus glasses and read her book at about 15 cm, until she got off.

As the train left, there was one empty seat facing me. A few minutes later two men and a tall, slim girl came up the corridor. It turned out the men were together and left the seat for the girl who was wearing heavy black plastic framed glasses with a medium plus prescription. She started to read the paper and for the first few minutes I got only occasional glimpses, but there seemed something unusual. After the first stop, the guy beside her got off, so she put down her paper and fished in her bag for a lens wipe. Irealsied that she was slightly cross-eyed. When she took off her glasses, her eyes both shot towards her nose, so as to be almost all white. She could obviously see nothing and did not look at her glasses as she cleaned. It took at least 5 mins after she put them back for her eyes to return to almost normal.

Slit 04 Nov 2007, 08:39

Stan,

Thank you. Yes, the explanations sounds valid based on my very basic knowledge of Optics as well.

Anyways, it was one amazing sighting.

(in a land of low myopic & low hyperopic, its fortune to see a fabulous girl in high prescription glasses)

Stan 03 Nov 2007, 09:07

>QUESTION: At what prescription the opticians start giving plano front?

Slit,

That starts around -6 or higher. Perhaps higher with hi-index lenses.

I don't know if I can explain this well, but IIRC, the strength of the lens is the sum of the back curve and the fron curve of the lens. The optician wants to make the back curve roughly equal to -6 because of some rule-of-thumb that states -6 provides the best visual quality. Therefore, the front curve is adjusted to result in a total of whatever your Rx is supposed to be. Thus, right around -6 or so the front ends up being plano.

For example, a -4 lens could be derived from -6 on the back surface and +2 on the front surface. A -6 could be 0 on the front and -6 on the back. Above that, they would keep the plano front surface and increase the curvature of the back until some point at which a bi-concave lens would be used.

Like I said, I suppose all of this varies somewhat with different lens materials, but that is what I remember from the CR-39 days.

Anyway that is my layman's understanding of it.

ChrisB 02 Nov 2007, 14:19

Last Friday at Ikea in north london a 20ish girl in the queue for food. She had quite unusual plastic tranluscent square frames and an RX in the minus 3-5 range. Verry pretty with blonde hair and considering, she had 2 small children with her, an absolutely stunning figure. In a very multi cultural store she was also very english.

I must say that blonde girls in glasses are generally not my favourite sighting but there are always exceptions.

It was a warm if not sunny autumn day in Cambridge today and GWG students were out in force. I would estimate that about 60% of studenty looking girls I passed were GWGs. NB Students at Cambridge are only about 1/3 undergraduates. There's a huge number of older Graduate students and researchers. Writing this makes me realise what a sad old git I am.

lentifan 31 Oct 2007, 14:34

A beautiful sighting today in a department store, a very pretty young Asian woman wearing small chocolate brown oval plastic frames which suited her features and her complexion beautifully. What really caught my eye was the twingling of the minus lenses. At first I thought they were myodiscs but on closer inspection they seemed just to be very high index. The Rx was hard to tell but I'd estimate c-20. She was wearing a headscarf but fortunately her face was uncovered. I took in as much as I could without being a nuisance.

hooked 17 Oct 2007, 14:46

Today in the local train:

I looked up and on the other side of the corridor a girl/women sat there with her boy-friend. Black-haired, not thin but not thick, southern european origin (I suppose and which I prefer) and glasses.

They don't suited her really even if it was the kind I prefer. They were oval and black rimmed. The Rx I would estimate around +7 and the glass was not coated. Strange thing was the glasses were inclined downwards (around ten percent), why is that?

If she have had glasses that would suit her really she would have been in the top ten plussies I have ever seen in real life. Nonetheless she was a stunner.

Can you imagine I'm envious of her boy-friend (he hasn't glasses as nearly always in a couple only one of them has glasses).

Even if my wife is a all-time glasses wearer with more than +5.

Is it that I'm a bit older than forty and she was some 20 years younger than me?

pete 16 Oct 2007, 09:36

Well, I guess this could be considered a sighting:

I was watching the DVD version of the Blind Faith concert in London Hyde Park 1969. It's a pretty sraight forward documentary - up front and personal shots of band members (Ginger Baker is incredible on drums) and occasional pans of the crowd with some close ups INCLUDING a heasd shot of a cute GWG. Her rx is pretty strong w/nice cut-in. The glasses style is not unlike the popular rectangular shapes seen currently. And if that wasn't enough, there's another bit of footage of her later on. (I think the cameraman had a thing for her for which I'm grateful).

Slit 16 Oct 2007, 03:02

On my way back from university, i got of from one bus, where i usually switch buses.

Soon i saw a girl walking ahead...inside the extra short skirt were the amazingly shaped legs, clean with no hairs, sexy sandles (ya, just like glasses some sexy legs with sexy high heels arouse me a lot...)

Hair not tied strong so just let freely... Just out of curiosity i speeded up and looked at her while passing by!

Oh! some amazing thick specs... might be -5 or even higher... I went past her and stopped for a moment letting her pass me by again... then i noticed the reflections of light from the plano front of the lens & the power rings which is a re assuarance of the high rx!

Now i am moving towards the bus, she is also moving in parallel!

She also got in to the same bus i was in, and probably she noticed the fact i was interested to look at her repeatedly, i knew this for sure because i have noticed many girls playing with their hair when they notice that a guy is looking at them...

Interesting fact is that her clothing looked so elegent and new, but the glasses seemed to be ill maintained and frames were quite old. Probably the contacts giving her trouble so had switched to glasses on the way home!

QUESTION: At what prescription the opticians start giving plano front?

Aubrac 12 Oct 2007, 03:07

Moved house yesterday and the lady who was moving out, early forties I'd say, was wearing what looked like new glasses. I have seen her a few times before when we looked around the house and she wasn't wearing glasses at all then.

On wednesday evening I had a quick chat with her and noticed the glasses which I thought were low plus. Her 8 year old daughter had just got about +3 glasses and was being difficult about wearing them, she kept taking them off and her mum kept putting them back on her.

Well, we moved in on Thursday morning and she gave me the house keys. I saw then her lenses were not plus. When she bent forward to write something, I could the rings of a low minus at the bottom of the lenses, less than -1.00, but thes were not at all visible from the outer edge of the lens where you can usually see them easily. The lenses definitely slanted everthing and so I think the scrip was for low minus with a lot of cylinder for astigmatism correction.

The frames were a nice beige colour semi-rimless and I might find an excuse to take round some things she had left and get the conversation round to glasses.

My wife, who as I have said on previous posts, is a sometime wearer, much to my pleasant suprise put on her old brown framed oval lens glasses at 8.00 in the morning and wore them all day until about 10.00 in the evening. The glasses were on the bedside table but she didn't put them on this morning and drove off bare eyed but I know she has ner newer glasses which she usually wears at work, in her bag.

Phil 12 Oct 2007, 01:19

I've spotted two nice "Top Totty" gwgs in the news recently: Jana Bennett of the BBC and Dr Jane Collins of Great Ormond Street. Anyone got any pics?

 11 Oct 2007, 13:16

http://can4eye.livejournal.com/1283.html

-5.00 who luvs gwgs 11 Oct 2007, 12:55

Recently spotted a most interesting sighting a boy of about 14 with executive bifocals (purely his eyewear was interesting I am not interested in children and

i am heterosexual)I guess he was about -8.00 was it due to poor accomodation or to slow down his myopia progression ?

i also spotted a 20 something girl with the highest myopia I have seen for some time very small metal ovals with lenses close to 2cm thick from knowing someone elses exact prescription must have been about -25.00 Wow!!!

SarahM 07 Oct 2007, 12:08

Interesting sighting Friday. I was at an Amtrak self service kiosk, girl in front of me, about my age. Stylish frames, rectangular with wide temples. Left lens, significant plus about +4 or +5, single vision. Right lens about -4 or -5, and an executive bifocal.

gwgs 05 Oct 2007, 03:47

Just got a nice glimpse of a brunette gwg in her early 30's of a slim build from a rear and side aspect through an estate agents window, the said lady was wearing a lovely pair of silver rimmed wide arm rectangular glasses which are all the rage at the moment, the unique thing was her arms had diamante shapes all the way down the side of them and were catching in the mid morning sun.

I was suddenly distracted from looking at the properties to admiring her and her glasses!!

Adalle 02 Oct 2007, 11:02

As I told before, she started solving the crossword without wearing her glasses, but after a minute or so, she had to put her glasses back on.

Simon 01 Oct 2007, 15:00

Adalle, I am surprised that your beachgirl managed to solve a crosswords without the help of her glasses. My girlfriend is "only" minus L-5.5 R-5.0 but she can by no means read small print without her specs, not even within 10 inches! Maybe not a problem for your friend because of her stronger myopia?

Phil 28 Sep 2007, 06:31

Some nice "new" gwgs on my regular train.

A pretty, young solicitor who I've seen before, usually bare-eyed, but who seems to have had a bit of an increase in her minus rx and now wears her lovely plastic brown frames when she gets off the train. She often sleeps on the journey and takes them off. One day they slipped out of her hand and were caught by the lucky chap next to her. Guess where I'm sitting next week!

Presbyopia has caught up with one woman who was holding the paper further and further away. She started with specs a few months ago but now has a very fetching pair with electric blue metal frames which she repeatedly puts on and takes off.

Finally, there's a 40-something, elegant tall woman with pretty heavy plus: not normally my "thing" but she's got rimless frames which are really rather nice.

Simon 27 Sep 2007, 16:26

I have a new co-worker since 3 weeks. She comes to the office by turns in wireless frames or red plastic ovals, impossible to tell in which frames she'll turn up the next day. She looks very cute in both frames. The wireless appear to be slightly stronger as I often see her squinting when she has an ovals day, but never otherwise! I guess her prescription is not that strong: sometimes she leaves the glasses on her desk when going around the office to get herself a drink, visit the lavs,...

Trent 23 Sep 2007, 17:14

Socks

I live in Calgary and I know many women who have submitted to lasik surgery, it seem to go along with the prosperity here. Still I have the occasionally siting that lifts my heart. Socks give me a buzz at mymyopia@yahoo.ca

Socks 23 Sep 2007, 00:55

I've been in Winnipeg (Canada) for the last few days and can't help but notice the startling number of women who wear glasses here. I live in Vancouver, which has this reputation as the "hippest" city in Canada. I think however, that hip means you can't wear glasses. Rarely do pretty girls in Vancouver wear glasses. In the prairie cities, Calgary , Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg, the climate is harsher and the air dryer. I think contacts can be more uncomfortable. I always notice when in these cities that what seems like 25 - 30% of women wear glasses. And pretty women! Way too mnay to recount here. Every time I turned around in the mall today I was stunned by a great sighting! I miss the prairies...

Adalle 22 Sep 2007, 04:40

I kept the best for last. This is a more private sighting.

An ex-girlfriend was in town last week for a business convention. When the convention ended she decided to stay for a couple more days. When we were going out together (I lived in her home city for a year) she had a prescription of -3.5 on both eyes and a bit of astigmatism and she kind of knew of my glasses fetish, as I had told her I preferred her with glasses rather than contacts. She even used to keep her glasses on during sex and play with them to tease me. Alas when we met in the morning to go for shopping and coffee, she wore contacts and sunglasses. We spent a wonderful morning and afternoon and we agreed to go back to our places and meet again at night. Unfortunately at night she appeared again without her glasses. Nevertheless we had a great time. One thing led to another, we kissed and we went back to her hotel room.

There we immediately took each other’s clothes off and laid to bed kissing passionately. At one moment while she was on top, she reached her hand to the bedside table, where her old glasses were laying. They were golden brown plastic frames, almost rectangular in shape with very wide arms, matching the height of the frames, which narrowed fast towards the ears. She picked them up, unfolded them with her lips and very sexually asked me if I remembered these. I smiled and she slowly put them on. Of course I asked her if she didn’t mind since she had her contacts on, only to get the answer that since I preferred her to wear them, she didn’t mind to get a little dizzy. After both of us had finished she went to the bathroom and came out five minutes later without her contacts on, with her old glasses in her hand and wearing a new pair of glasses, dark red with black stripes in color and kind of oval in shape but with a bit larger frames than the old ones. She came to bed and after a bit of kissing and playing with her old glasses, she put them on me, to my surprise, and of course we had sex again. Later she told me her prescription had increased to -4 and admitted that wearing contacts all day and putting the old glasses on the bedside table was all a plan to tease me more…

We spent the whole night together, but we both knew this was just an one night stand. The next evening I took her to the airport and both said goodbye till the next time we meet…

Adalle 22 Sep 2007, 03:49

I had several sightings in the last month.

About one month ago I was at the beach. It was a very sunny day and of course everyone was wearing sunglasses. At one point a friend with his girlfriend joined us and they sat next to me. She was wearing a pair of huge retro round sunglasses but there was something weird about them. They seemed not to be sitting very comfortably on her nose. At a closer look I realized she was wearing prescription glasses underneath her sunglasses. When her boyfriend went into the sea, I found the chance and I asked her why.

She said her contacts were torn and as she didn’t have enough time to purchase new ones, she had to wear her glasses. I asked about her prescription and she said she had about -9 in each eye with astigmatism, so she couldn’t even walk without correction! Then she took off her sunglasses and she handed me her prescription glasses. They were plastic oval frames, mainly red in color with a bit of pink on the arms and the most clean and smooth lenses I have ever seen. At that time another friend joined us and as she couldn’t distinguish who it was, she asked me who came, stretching her arm towards me simultaneously searching for her glasses. Instead I gently placed them on her nose and as everything came into focus she thanked me smiling. Later on she had taken off her glasses and she was trying to solve a crossword. Of course she had to hold it 20 cm from her face so she had to put her glasses back on. Due to the hot day, her nose was getting sweaty, so all the time her glasses went down to the tip of the nose and she was pushing them back up.

Two weeks ago a friend invited me to her place where she had a little friend gathering. There I saw her best friend wearing a pair of red oval plastic frames with black thick arms. Her prescription was no more than -2 or -3. I had seen her only once again, but she didn’t wear glasses that time. At one point she took off her glasses and laid them to the living room table in front of her. She was functioning normally without them until the host put a video for us to see from her last trip. The myopic girl started watching it, squinting for about 2 minutes. Finally she laughed and said “And I was wondering why I can’t see. Where did I put my glasses?”, and started searching the table for her glasses which were moved to another table before because of the need for space for some snacks. I handed them over to her. Later on I complemented her on the glasses and she said she almost never wore them outside the house as she disliked them. Of course I encouraged her on wearing them more often.

Finally I have to report a “general” sighting. During the whole summer, driving to work in traffic was a bit boring. Almost no woman driver wore glasses due to the sunny days. But in the last few weeks, the weather is cloudier and almost one out of three women is now wearing prescription glasses. It’s wonderful just to watch them in the rear view mirror taking off their glasses and cleaning the lenses during traffic. How beautiful is the autumn…

Zorab 21 Sep 2007, 06:25

Frames are an important part of the appeal of glasses, but for me it is really the lenses which fascinate me most. It follows that I have a preference for frames which allow the lenses to be seen: rimless is best or thin metal ones. The current vogue for thick plastic may be very striking on certain faces, but they also seem to be designed to frustrate lens watchers like me. I hate these extra wide temples, not only because they are ugly but because they prevent any chance of getting a glimpse from the wearer's rear-side, to gauge the script. The front view is not so much better as the heavy shadow cast by thick plastic rims make it really difficult to see what is going on around the edge and often completely conceal the edge thickness of the lens. Does anyone agree? Bring back rimless!

Menthe 19 Sep 2007, 14:47

I've just been to the dentist and the practice has a beautuful new assistant. Blond, late 20s, and wearing some delightfully conservative frames with a script of about -3 to -4, and a slight brown tint. The frames are thin gold metal with a little ornamentation, but with 70s style large windows. The shape is a sort-of rectangular but with very rounded edges. Wow, she looked just amazing. My dentist must have wondered why I kept looking to one side towards her assistant. Perhaps I have another toothache coming on...

gwgs 19 Sep 2007, 05:32

Lily Cole was in the Evening Standard last night wearing some thick round tortoise style frame spex on a catwalk.

She was modelling Paul Smith's new range and wore them with 4 different outfits

Oh if only there were for real :(

Google her name plus glasses for pics.

Pete 17 Sep 2007, 01:51

I know a girl, she ist about 22 years old, who is able to wear minusglasses with 4 diopters without any contact-lenses. Her normal vision is 20/20. She wear her friends sparepair more than a half day. Wow!

Pete

Therouteur 16 Sep 2007, 17:00

This probably isn't the place to continue this discussion but yes, she is a 100% committed gocer. An intriguing mix of the Iberian and a couple of versions of the Oriental and a natural minus 7 who likes to go plussie. Aren't I a lucky boy?

Menthe 15 Sep 2007, 14:27

Theroutier: so your lady is a "goc" girl - lucky you! My partner is already a minus 6, so she doesn't really need any further power to her lenses to please me, but I'd sure love to meet a girl who wants to simulate myopia so she can wear glasses of different powers on different days. wow. tel us more...

 15 Sep 2007, 07:22

The other day at work we getting audited. 2 young guys about 25 arrived. I was amazed to see that one of the guys had the most amazing glasses I had ever seen. They were huge gold rimmed round frames. one eye had very high minus lens probably -10 or there abouts. In the other was a very very thick plus lens. I've never seen anything like this before and could'nt help wondering why he didn't go for contacts as his glasses made him look very strange.

Therouteur 13 Sep 2007, 16:39

The truly amazing powers of accomodation are supplied by Acuvue

Menthe 09 Sep 2007, 08:18

Therouteur: as a keen glasses observer even in my childhood years, I noticed that the children of glasses wearing parents almost all ended up with glasses themselves – indeed there was a certain inevitability about it. The only real unknown was when - the timing of the onset of myopia seems to vary considerably. Your lady with her 'creative attitude to rx' sounds interesting, although she must have truly amazing powers of accommodation if she can change as easily as you suggest. Of course she may achieve it with a glasses over contacts combo - a girl in my office recently switched from plus to minus glasses recently, which made me wonder whether she is one of them. I haven’t quite got up the courage to ask her yet...

Therouteur 09 Sep 2007, 07:25

Thank you for your kind words Menthe. Actually he's a she. And as for heredity, la T has always had a creative attitude to rx - she changes regularly and at will so we hardly know where dreams stop and reality starts nowadays. As for my own contribution; well, as Jewish law posits, maternity is demonstrable and paternity is putative....

All will be revealed in the fullness of time.

Menthe 09 Sep 2007, 02:37

Therouteur: The subway is a great place to see and get close to gwgs, world over. Congrats to you and Lat (?) on your new arrival. If you are both optically challenged, I guess the genes of your offspring will dectate that he/she is the same? Of course, the dear child may react against his parents' liking for glasses and refuse to have anything to do with them. Keep us posted in the years ahead!

Therouteur 08 Sep 2007, 18:42

Nice one on the Shanghai underground today. Mid 20s Chinese girl,black T shirt, nice short denim skirt, hair just touching the shoulders, sort of rectangular silver framed glasses with plenty of rx. Actually it was la T who first noticed her: I noticed a sudden sucking of breath and the tightening of her grip on my arm - she has a terror of falling when the train lurches. I was just about to mumble something about how a new mother (that's la T) should show more decorum when the train stopped at Nanking East Rd and the lovely thing swished out. Wonderful. Sadly we were going two more stops and we were late...

glassesforeveryone 07 Sep 2007, 03:13

Wow, what a flight this morning.

First of all I was on an EasyJet flight today and was waiting to baord, when I noticed a lady (late thirties) being helped by a steward. She had a white stick and was obviously partially sighted.

What was strange was that she was wearing what looked like reasonably mild plus glasses, around +5. I am intrigued as to how those glasses could be helping her?

Then, as I got on the plane and took my seat, I noticed a beautiful tall blonde, around 30 years old. I was happy to see her sit in the row directly behind me.

As the flight went on, I couldn't help but notice what a great accent she had, a soft Glasgwegian lilt. She told her friend that her glasses, rimless, slim metal arms, "were new and much thinner than her old glasses."

This got my attention, so I tried to take a look, not easy when you are sitting in front of someone. Her lenses were a good thickness at the polished edge, a good centimetre and there was fantastic cut-in. I was impressed, but my fun wasn't over, she started discussing her prescription -7.5, her friend, a pretty brunnette said, "not as strong as mine" opened her purse and pulled out, from their case, a pair of heavy brown framed glasses, which must have been in the region of -9/-10. The blonde then tried them on, wow, she looked great.

The flight came to a premature end and I was waiting at the baggage carousel hoping for another sighting. I noticed the two girls walking towards me. The blonde went to the lavatory and I waited, in anticipation, for her return. She was a while... She came back out without her glasses on, still looking beautiful, albeit to my eyes, not quite the same.

I collected my bag and left, noticing on my way out the partially sighted lady, who was now wearing tinted plussies. I had forgotten all about her and I am not attracted to people with disabilities, but as I got closer (maybe my eyes are finally getting worse!) I could see that she was, actually, a very attractive woman.

I am still feeling a little giddy about it, but that could be the early start. I couldn't help thinking, that this flight was an 'eyescene lover's dream'... phew.

Phil 07 Sep 2007, 00:57

Optifan, Of course! She'll blush but be ever so pleased that you like how she looks. There is something special about a nice gwg bank teller isn't there? I remember falling in love with a pretty young girl who used to serve me when I was about 18 (in the days before debit cards when one had to cash cheques). She was shy and had lovely long hair. She wore metal hexagonal frames which were all the rage then, with a mild to nmoderate minus lenses. She knew I admired her but, regrettably, we never got beyond exchanging smiles and giggles. How I wish now that I'd asked her out!

optifan 06 Sep 2007, 10:03

A couple of weeks ago i was in the bank waiting to be served.

Behind the counter is an attractive mid 20s blond cashier.She had served me many times in the past and she knows me as i am a regular customer but never seen her in glasses.

As i waited i saw her pick up a pair of specs from behind the desk and try them on for a few seconds, look round the room and then removed them.

They obviously were not hers as the style was at least 10yr old and suggested they belonged to a much older person.

Just been to the bank and wow there she was sporting brand new black and pink wide arm plastic frames.

She looked stunning !!!!!.

Tried to get to her desk but no luck but will try tommorow.

I just wondered if she realised she needed glasses after trying on the old ones.

Should i compliment her on the glasses next time.What do you think?.

pete 05 Sep 2007, 18:41

During an out of town surf trip I spotted a GWG and her boyfriend (for sure) at a Safeway deli counter. We were waiting for our sandwiches to be made when they came to the meat counter which was set at a right angle to where I was standing. I unabashedly glanced at this really pretty college coed until my order was handed to me. She wore small plastic frames with at least a -10 RX. Light danced on the plano fronts . . . the whole effect . . .

Though she had a trim and fit body and beautiful face she looked a little fragile, maybe bookish is a better word (clearly a scholarly looking boyfriend). That, too, was quite appealing.

(apology in advance: I don't mean to stereotype)

lurker 05 Sep 2007, 09:25

Sheesh, I'm only suggesting... How could I know if I would like her or not if I don't even try to get to know her? It's not like I'm an obsessed creep or something. She just caught my attention.

still 05 Sep 2007, 08:27

Then leave her alone. What if she grew to like you, and then found out that you were totally uninterested in her...

lurker 05 Sep 2007, 06:23

Last December I posted about a girl at the university who went sometimes without glasses though seemed quite myopic. I've been seeing glimpses of her again and never with glasses. I had already thought that she had switched to contacts until today when she was having lunch at the university restaurant. She gave a short but noticeable squint at some of the dishes, then proceeded to pay and held the wallet somewhat close to her eyes. I think it's extraordinary that someone of my age (over 20) would choose to go around bare-eyed. She tends to eat alone so maybe I owe myself a try at chatting with her. I have to say that she doesn't really interest me otherwise than because of her squinting, so I'm a bit hesitant...

Aubrac 05 Sep 2007, 00:56

Interesting, must book a flight to Turkey!!

There seem also to be more girl and young women plussies now in the UK. I know that since my wife started wearing plus glasses a few years ago, I was converted from a minus to a plus lover and so maybe I just notice more.

However it could be that many girls at regular eye exams get a plus prescription but don't get glasses as they can use accommodation to see ok. Now glasses have become more attractive and very much a fashion accessory, maybe more girls are getting their prescriptions filled.

Slit 03 Sep 2007, 18:28

HI all,

first a menion regarding the prevelance of hyperopes in hungary and rest of the europe...

i think because of the increase of awareness and healthcare facilities, the opticians and doctors are performing more and more dialated eye tests at younger ages so that most of the latent hyperopia is discovered and corrected early.

during my last few days in turkey i noticed a substantial number of girls as well as guys wearing plus glasses in comparison to where i live.

and here is the most interesting part of the sightings... those girls who really really need glasses badly but not wearing them... many were having amazing way of squinting (i think its the right word which describe how the girls make their eyes tiny and trying to look at a distance)... at sharjah air port saw a last sighting of one hot arabian babe wearing a full black dress with apparent cleavege, squinting all the way across boarding area trying to read the digital displays...

Wearing glasses to correct myopia seems to be popular option in Arabian region mostly due to dust and dryness of whether which makes wearing contaces a less wise option.

Hmm... after a summer of GWG spotting, here i am at home!

SZ6 03 Sep 2007, 11:37

Jeez, I'm full of sightings lately. A few of us were hanging out over at a friend's apartment last night. His roommate - average-looking hispanic girl, late 20s - came home, looked over at us in the living room to say hello, went to her room, and emerged not a minute later wearing reddish-purple plastic cat-eyes with incredibly strong lenses, maybe as high as -15. I saw some quick flashes of polished edge thickness sticking out from the frames. She grabbed her laptop from the living room and disappeared for the rest of the evening.

I've seen her maybe four or five times over the last year, but never wearing glasses.

SZ6 31 Aug 2007, 06:39

gwgs1,

Kathy's pretty awesome. She's 5'9", auburn hair, blue eyes, cute, nice and toned, smart, sweet, and sometimes wears black plastic frames with about -3 or -4 in them.

Also:

Saw a cute brunette with about -9 or so in some small dark rectangular frames as I was leaving the coffee shop this morning. I glanced at her head-on across the room as I was waiting for my coffee, saw some reflections on the lenses but didn't make them out as power rings. Then I got a look at her from the side on my way out and saw about 5mm of white lens edge sticking out behind her frames. Nice way to start the day!

newglasses 31 Aug 2007, 05:06

i recently spent a few days in budapest, hungary. i'm a fan of hyperopic women and what i got to see there was certainly a surprise. i've never seen so many hyperopic women in one city. usually you don't meet too many of those but i can truthfully say that every fourth woman i met in the streets (wearing glasses) was a hyperopic. lots of them were rather weak prescriptions (something between +0.75 and +2 dpt but not a few had considerably stronger rx. very nice! i just wonder why that is. are the hungarian opticians generally of the opinian that hyperopia should be corrected no matter how weak or what?

gwgs1 31 Aug 2007, 02:41

So tell us about "Kathy" then SZ6, is she a gwg? (one presumes she is, of course!)

tuna 30 Aug 2007, 13:59

SZ6:

Sounds like you have no worries in this dept!

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SZ6 30 Aug 2007, 07:21

tuna,

thanks for the thoughtful post. Mary and I did all of the soul-baring, "why isn't this working" stuff already. It didn't end badly, no one did anything to hurt anyone else; we are just not compatible like we thought we were early in the relationship. The break was about as clean as it could have been, and we did/do want to be friends again eventually. But there needed to be a period of time apart so that we could unhook our romantic feelings from our feelings of friendship, and that's still going on for the most part. And it was during this time where I met Jill.

Jill herself said that had it been six months or a year later and Mary and I were more settled in our post-breakup friendship, it would be easier to deal with, or maybe if Mary had started dating again... but the timing is just wrong at the moment.

Also, I am starting to get close with someone else I met recently, and have spent more time with than Jill. I feel like this other girl (let's call her "Kathy") and I have more potential for a real future together. The thing with Jill felt more like it would turn out to be a very hot fling.

We shall see.

tuna 30 Aug 2007, 06:55

Oh SZ6,

Don't let this one go without a fight! Do let her know that you want to be with her - tell her you understand that she needs not to be rushed and you don't want to put her in a bad situation. But make it very clear that you are very interested. She may want you to prove that this relationship is worth the fight.

In the meantime, perhaps you should speak to "Mary" and attempt to put some closure between you - this will probably mean listening to her tell you about her feelings - especially anger, hurt etc. See if you can't come away more as friends and help her to move on - help her understand that it would do her no good to remain together if its not going to be ultimately right and that you respect her enough to want whats right for her.

Summon all your courage and ask her what she thinks you could do to be better too. Take it to heart. You can cry but you cannot yell at her.

In my experience, woman who are not happy about a breakup don't want their friends to date their ex-s, but those who are ready to move on are happy to fix them up.

Also, women who are real don't want to get into the middle of a "not done" couple any more than they want to be involved with an otherwise involved guy.

Apologize for past hurts - you must do some soul searching here - let her know that this new interest is important and that you learned a lot from being with her. Hopefully you have not been very bad to her - and that you guys can come to terms so that you can both move on and she can honestly bless your new relationship.

ES-Visitor 30 Aug 2007, 00:37

A most interesting sighting ever!! At a fast food, two ladies, 30ish, both wearing high minus, -10ish, one was squinting hard at the list posted up the wall and the other could obviously not see it at all as she was loking at her friend and following her reading the list. The second one had her eyes totally unfocused with one of them going outward all the time, I thought she was visually impaired. They made my day...

SZ6 28 Aug 2007, 07:21

Most frustrating sighting/experience of the last few years, or maybe ever:

A couple of months after ending a recent relationship, I decided to try one of the online dating services to meet some new people and stop thinking about my ex (let's call her "Mary"). Feeling a bit bold, I e-mailed an older (than me), gorgeous, interesting-sounding woman, not particularly expecting a response as she was a "ten" in every sense of the term. Not only did I get a response, but it turned out we'd met seven months ago - at a party thrown by Mary! This woman (let's call her "Jill") was acquainted with my ex through a business connection and we'd exchanged pleasantries at the soiree.

We were both aware of the delicate nature of the situation, but decided that since Jill's acquaintance with Mary was fairly tenuous and they hadn't even seen each other for months, it couldn't hurt to get coffee and see if we clicked. I joked during our flirty e-mail exchange that if she wore glasses, I might have trouble behaving myself. She said that she did, in fact, have glasses, and threatened to wear them on our first date.

So we met for coffee, and Jill was as pretty and engaging as advertised. 5'5", dangerous curves, deliciously toned, a ready, inviting smile, long dark hair, dark eyes, and, alas, no eyeglasses. But the coffee went well and we continued the evening with a drink, an artsy French film, and a walk to a quiet park, where Jill demonstrated her uncanny talent at kissing and we agreed that we had indeed clicked.

We e-mailed during the week and decided to get together for a game of Scrabble at a coffee shop in our neighborhood. Completely unprompted, she said she'd bring her "nerdlette glasses". And did she ever. She showed up wearing a big grin, a low-cut shirt tastefully displaying her fabulous breasts, and a pair of big sexy rectangular brown plastic-framed glasses with wide metal sides and a good eight or nine diopters of high-myopic goodness. Needless to say, it was pretty hard to keep my mind on the Scrabble game and we had some trouble keeping our hands to ourselves. Not wanting to be too forward too fast with each other, we said goodbye after the clock struck midnight and made plans to get together again soon.

For the next couple weeks, we played phone and e-mail tag an