There are some on-line frame stores (do a google search), but you need to
just go shopping and ask the opticians to show some styles.

What's in style today?  That's easy to answer: UGLY!  The current trend
in eyeglasses is for people to wear those thick brown or plastic frames
with the little rectangular lenses.  The thicker and gaudier the
better.  When wearing the glasses you should not have any meaingful
peripheral vision and if you picked thick enough frames your forward
vision should be as obscured too.  When placed on your face your
glasses should become the dominate feature and hide everything else.

To sum it up, proper fashionable glasses should be:
- Ugly
- About 5 pounds in weight
- Black or dark brown in color
- Ugly
- Obstructive to your vision
- Ugly
- Ugly
- And did I mention ugly?

The funniest thing about those glasses is that people wear them
thinking it makes them look like an intellectual, but in reality it
shows them to be a dunce who's so gullible that they were actually
tricked into buying those hideous things.  (Unless, of course, you have
a reason to hide your face like Janeane Garofalo.  Hiding her face is
probably the only intelligent thing she's ever done.)

Now, if you want glasses that look good then you have a lot of options.
My last pair of glasses were amazing - they had thin metal arms that
anchored directly into the lenses.  This design eliminated the frame
around the lenses.  I was also able to get an antiglare coating on the
lenses which made them even more invisible on my face.  The lack of a
frame also eliminated that obnoxious border around my field of vision
(though since they are glasses I still had that boundary between the
corrected and uncorrected light that passed into my eyes.  Those
glasses were so nice they caused their own demise.  They were so close
to not wearing glasses at all that I decided to go all the way and have
lasik :)

When I picked up my new glasses a couple of weeks ago I asked my optician
what's trendy these days. He runs a shop that carries some very
avant-garde frames. He said that the trend in recent years to very short
top-to-bottom frames is finally ending and that bigger lenses are making a
comeback. He had a line of wire frames there that seemed almost like a kit
for him to assemble; he said they could set just about any shape of lens
in these although he had a number of display styles, some of which he said
were copies of vintage shapes from the '50's. Think Harry Truman glasses
in colored wire frames and you'd be close.

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Greg Beaulieu    ab348@chebucto.ns.ca    Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada