It is a statistical fact that three-quarters of the American population need eyeglasses or contact lenses. The exact causes are unimportant, as are the specific conditions. Seventy-five percent of us do not have perfect 20-20 vision. The choices are either glasses, contacts, corrective surgery, or simply making do with seeing the world as a collection of increasingly fuzzy blobs as time goes on. Most aren’t going to go for option five, and option four has expenses and complications of its own. So most of that seventy-five percent will rely on glasses or contacts.
Thirty million people wear contact lenses. The choice is entirely one of the aesthetics; preferring not to wear glasses and look older or nerdy. But most people who need vision correction will go for glasses. Overall, they’re cheaper than lenses, require far less care, and do not entail the risk of secondary eye infection from improper cleansing. Some people cannot wear contacts because of allergies. And others simply cannot stand the feel of anything on or in the eye. If a person can’t stand it when a speck of dirt gets into the eye, it’s hard to figure that one will be able to stand contacts. Eyeglasses are simply easier to deal with.
But it is certainly untrue in the modern world that eyeglasses compromise one’s appearance. An entire industry specializing in boutique eyewear has evolved in the years since heavy hornrims first came out and there exists a wide selection of styles and luxury frames custom-tailored to the patient’s prescription and tastes. Designer frames from fashion artists such as Thom Browne, Loree Rodkin, Sama, Oliver Goldsmith and others fill out the options available to customers of one particular Optician in Chelsea NY who provides fashion and custom eye frames for patients. So the once-popular image of the thick black framed pair of eyeglasses worn by a meek Clark Kent as a nerd’s disguise is now long obsolete. Eyeglasses have come into their own as a fashion statement.
The boutique Optician in Chelsea NY can fit any set of custom-ground lenses to custom, handmade frames. They can create sets, spares, prescription sunglasses on order, and multiple sets for differing visual conditions. Browse the various styles available to patients at website domain and see which one might be right for you.
