Glasses dilemma

[sawyl]

I find myself in something of a quandary. My old glasses are no longer up to spec, giving me three possible options:

Option One: new glasses. If buy completely new pair, I get fifty quid off and a shiny new pair of spectacles. On the other hand, I'm shelling out for something I'll almost never use and, knowing my luck, will make me look completely absurd (I don't know about anyone else, but I find picking decent glasses really traumatic. You pay out all this cash for them, then you're committed to wearing them for years, regardless of whether you think you've made a horrible mistake or not. Plus, if your non-corrected vision is super crappy, you have to put rather a lot of faith in someone else's opinion, someone who isn't going to be the one who ends up looking like a total fool if they pick wrong).

Option Two: retrofit my old glasses. I could get my Professor Yaffles re-glazed but I don't get a discount so, depending on the sort of frame I go for, it might work out more expensive than getting a completely new pair. But on the other hand I've already got the frames, so I'm only going to be shelling out for lenses, and I won't have to go through the painful process of picking something new.

Option Three: do nothing. Perhaps it doesn't matter if my glasses are out of date. It's not like I ever wear them, long distance flying aside. Maybe I'll just put up with having blurry vision on the vanishingly rare occasions when I don't wear contacts.

Anyone got any thoughts on what I should do?

Comments

[drspleen.livejournal.com]

option 1. just get rectangular glasses. you can't go wrong with flattish rectangular glasses.

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

Square shapes don't really work all that well on me — they tend to make my face look unbalanced — whilst strong colours just make me look pasty and ill. All of which presents me with something of a problem because dark, heavy, square glasses are totally in at the moment.

While I don't hold out great hopes, I'm going back in to get some more work done tomorrow, so I might just spend a while nosing around at some of the frames and see if I can't find something tolerable.