Gripe of the morning: All eyeglass websites do faceting and search wrong.
Frame designs are fully segregated by "men" and "women". A minority have a "unisex" section. Sometimes it is an intersection of the gendered sets, sometimes it is an exclusive third set.
The only parameter I care to filter on is lens size. Very few accommodate that, and those that do require me to redo for each gender-section.
Eyeglass gender should be a category facet that can be toggled just like any other category.
@ardgedee Good new, perhaps. My eyeglass vendor of choice, Opitcal4Less.com, has classes by type of frame, and allows sorting by lens size. Good value for money, I've found. I buy all my eyewear there.
@photopuck fwiw, if you have some favorite old frames that're still in good shape, you can get better bang-for-buck by re-lensing them.
Not necessarily cheaper, but it allows you better-
quality glass for about the price of frames + generic glass elsewhere. This also opens up the options for lens coatings.
I'm thinking of doing this to get photograde lenses, since cheap PG is worse than useless and good PG is 💸💸💸
This site is interesting... there are others, too...
http://www.replacementlensexpress.com/
@photopuck All my glasses (incl. reading glasses) have to have progressive lenses, so they cost 5-10x base price at the online stores. My scrip will run over $200 w/coatings at optical4less (I've used them before, they do good work).
At RLE, same scrip and name-brand lenses w/coatings will be $170-ish.
Some Pakistani and Chinese stores will run my scrip in the $80-150 range. Frames are mostly very poor quality. End-of-year BOGO sales tho: I might get some backups and try not to be seen in them
@ardgedee I tried a pakistani source before using O4L and the angle of the cylinder grind was wrong, even the replacements they sent on warranty. So I'm wary in general of anyone who is charging even less than O4L.
I'll look into RLE, but most of my frames are pretty crap.
I'm still stubbornly insisting on single vision. We'll see how long that lasts though.
@photopuck Which disappointing eyeglass company did you use? I'm curious...
I've had good luck with the optics (but not the frames) at one of the Pakistani eyeglass sites, but that was over half a dozen years ago; they're still around but their prices and options have changed a lot, wouldn't be surprised if there's a qualitative shift too.
@ardgedee Cataracts, huh? annoying. Family disposition or just a bad roll of the dice? I've got -7 and -9 but everything's clear so far.
@photopuck Some family members developed myopia, cataracts, etc. but only to typical extents and at typical ages. I lost some dice rolls. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯