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Glasses are like shoes. You really need to make sure they fit well and look good before buying.
I've never had it written on my prescription - it's always been done by the fitting people after I've chosen frames.
when plastic lenses came along in the 80s that all went to pot. I have never had such poorly engineered lenses as I had at the most inappropriate time of my life (teens and university) with an accompanying stupid price increase.
so, I have always been on the case of the high street opticians who bought out all of the little opticians who used to do a good job, and then brought in 12 year olds to fit them.
It was not uncommon in my 20s and 30s to go back several times and even give them their glasses back and ask for my money back - seriously : the quality of lens crafting just disappeared and these people CANNOT fit anything other than a big standard low prescription into a bog standard frame.
(Bear in mind I know all about the super thin plastic lenses and how "fantastic" they ar, as well as the multitude of rubbish coatings that you get sold)
so, until I got varifocals 4 years ago, I cam across glassescrafter.com I'm China
with trepidation I gave them ago and was astounded by the quality of the lenses and in particular the crafting of the lenses. NO massive edges hanging over the frames, no refraction around the edges, a fabulous pair of glasses that I could honestly say we're the best pair I have had in well over 20 years. The cost was a quarter of high street prices.
Some Opticians may give you your PD but not all. And 63mm is not everyone's PD. I am 64mm, my father was 72mm.
What you may not realise is that I worked in Optics for 20 years, I ran a laboratory and made glasses every day so I am qualified to talk.
Just scored a handmade frame from the States for bloody buttons, and once glazed makes the job about £140 complete. As opposed to probably £500+ on the high street.
I'd have become far too handsome though
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This is my prescription, no distance measurements.
http://i.imgur.com/M6PCWzL.jpg
Everything we did was made to British Standards and the tolerances are very small with certain prescriptions. If it didn't meet tolerances it got failed and remade.
I would not order online because they don't have enough information plus they can't do the correct fitting and adjustments. There is more to a pair of glasses than just your prescription and PD. Heights, pantoscopic tilt, wrap angle, BVD all play a factor and can affect the end result.
Wasn't being rude, just pointing out fact.
You may well be right, but I have never had anyone ever mention those parameters when I've been fitted many times over the years
The biggest load of crap is that they don't have different sizes of frames. In the 70s and early 80s my optician would get a tray of exactly the same frame but in different sizes and find the one that fitted best. These days they high street 20 year old doesn't have a clue when they "fit". .