So now we move onto Glasses (not drinking glasses , wearing glasses)

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These are Face A Face. Not the best photos. But you get the idea.

I'm vintage ?
More Cath Kidston than Dame Edna!

Visgirl. Would you mind telling me the name of that French company ?

Like this but blue and Pink

I too spend quite a lot on glasses. They are part of my personality.
I have worn glasses since I was 5 Yr old, my parents always paid for cute non NHS ones.

I go to an independent Opticians. I have never had any issues with weight or not lined up correctly, my friend went to Specsavers, totally sold the wrong ones, she had to return them, she could focus!

I have Nikon verifocal lenses, they are the most expensive part.
I'm tend to be drawn to a French company who have IMO stunning designs and colours.
At the moment I have Pink and Grey ones slightly square frames in both colours, plus the other ones are cats eye Turquoise, with the arm as a pair of legs leading to a high heel in Tortoiseshell, and flesh colour the shoe in Turquoise is the ear bit Sound crazy but they are fabulous.
There are some amazing designs out there but they do come with a large price tag.

Am currently contemplating eye wateringly pricey frames in multi coloured kind of hexagonal shape

I always have coloured frames, usually bright blue. My spare non prescription reading specs I buy online are red or
Turquoise or navy
I wear bright colours
My hair is white and post chemo Annie Lennox short !
Refuse to be a clone. ! Don’t own a mountain warehouse anorak.

I have a high prescription and have to have them thinned down. I have Zeiss lenses and Linberg frames, (other frames and makes availble)they are terrifyingly expensive, but I still work and I dont only need them to look good but I also need them to be comfortable, and they are.

I have very poor sight and after a lifetime of having to choose glasses without being able to see a thing, taking an iPad along has transformed the experience. I can try on lots of styles, take a photo and then put my old glasses back on and have a good look at how the various styles suit me.

The Boots optician in the high street of my local town was so helpful, had a good selection of specs and even had their own iPad and helpful member of staff who gave me lots of help and advice.

Bikergran, Specsavers give a guarantee that if you don't like your glasses for any reason they will replace them free of charge.
After my last prescription change I chose two similar shaped frames, but hurried the choice as it was during the pandemic and I knew a member of staff would have to clean every pair I handled. When I wore them, I realized that they were too heavy and large for me. There was absolutely no quibble when I took them back and went for the usual shape, much as the ones you describe.
I am always aware of the 'cloned' look, when going for my flu jab, so I wear my hair slightly longer and like to wear colour. I refuse to belong to the beige brigade!

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I do agree with OP about the uniform look of female pensioners that seems to be expected of us - how very depressing. Hence my shoulder length care - which happens to be dark brown! - undyed.

Have you looked around? Each age group is like that. Men 50-70 years nearly all look the same. Young men all wear the same trousers, hoodies etc. unless they're fashion conscious and like dressing up. Young women have slug eyebrows, fat lips and leggings. Obviously not everyone, but most age groups look pretty much the same really.

I went to an independent opticians after a couple of recommendations but I shan't be going back.
An expensive mistake.

I sympathise Callistemon21. My last pair were RayBans, with a heavy squarish frame, they look really cool - but I can’t wear them at all, the nose bridge is low which means I get a big red mark on the bridge of my nose, and because the frames are heavy they don’t have the adjustable nose pieces, and can’t be adjusted enough to make them comfortable, which is really annoying. Instead I am wearing my boring previous pair. Must get some new ones now.

Yes maybe I should take a look at the Asda frames, seeing as though I work there I would also have a discount,means traveling out of town as my local Asda doesn't have an optitions. But onwards and upwards to the new me lol thanks all.

The latest pair I chose (after much deliberation) were the lightest, metal frames as I really dislike wearing them.

However, they have proved to be most uncomfortable, should have taken them back but events prevented that. They were expensive too.
(They're boring anyway)

I did have new lenses fitted into an old, trendier pair of frames so I wear those all the time.

No, I don't have short, grey hair ?

I do agree with OP about the uniform look of female pensioners that seems to be expected of us - how very depressing. Hence my shoulder length care - which happens to be dark brown! - undyed.

Well I went and bought a pair that %0p shaped with a light green/blue mixed colour. As I am so light sensitive I also had them with magnetic held shades that fix on them and I love them and feel good in them. Also growing my curly white hair long, down to my shoulders now, just to get away from the granny look.

Having latest eye test tomorrow. I tend to choose the same over and over because my prescription is complicated and costs an arm and a leg - and if I have metal frames they have to be titanium because I am allergic to nickel.

I would love to have a change, but it is far too costly for experimenting - and I can't see what they look like in the shop as I am mega-short sighted.

I am quite short sighted so it isn’t the frames that cost the most but the specially ground lenses. The pair I wear mostly are squarish, dark grey frames. D D has a pair of round ones but I don’t think that would suit me. My greatest difficulty is seeing what I look like with them on, so I am quite cautious. Due new ones soon, anything between £500 and £800. A lot just to see straight ??

Just bought 2 new pairs at Asda, one grey metal, thin frame, one tortoiseshell with light turquoise inside, varifocals, photochromic, thinned lenses, £220 for the two. Both pairs are rounder than the current burgundy glasses for over two years.

I dunno, Bikergran sometimes a particular style just suits a particular shape of face/colouring etc. I’ve tried branching out away from my usual smallish, ‘square-oval’ darker colour or tortoiseshell frames but none of them suit me as well as those do.

I currently have some big square thin-rimmed black glasses with varifocal lenses for wearing outdoors. They do the job but they look pretty grim. ? I prefer my square-oval reading glasses.

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No not for everyone Blossoming. I don't pay much because I only wear them in the house. I wear contact lenses when I do out.

Not an option for me unfortunately Kate1949

My last pair were from Select Specs online. £25 inc. postage. They're great. DH and me both buy reading glasses from the Pound Shop. Perfect.