Nobody seems to be jumping on this one, so I will make an effort to help. (Please, anyone, jump on MY incorrect guesses)
First... invest in a metric ruler if you don't have one already so you can compare the online measurements with what you have. I have always called the rulers/scales "truth sticks" in the engineering world I work in. I believe the 135 is the length of the earpieces, NOT the "width". Usually you have a little bit of wiggle room on that length. Check to see if the glasses arms seem on the long or short side already. You might be able to go up or down 5mm on that number, and maybe more if you are brave enough to use some of the earpiece bending tricks from this forum. 20 usually refers to the bridge of the nose gap between lens. 20 sounds large. You might need large. But if the bridge area of your nose isn't wide, you might be able to go a bit smaller there too. 20 could be the height of your lens, but thats pretty narrow, so once again the truth stick is needed to check which measurement that is referrng to. 50 is usually about the width of EACH lens. I think 50 is pretty much a wide panorama lens in my opinion. You might need or want that wide to fit your head or get the sweeping views, but you might be able to go narrower. For width, use the truth stick to measure the outside dimension of the entire glasses at the hinge. Compare that with the online dimensions and ponder what going wider or narrower could mean for the look and where your pupils end up relative to the frames. (not to be confused with the pupillary distance, which the online sources will match in any frame) I have been using the "try on" feature on EyeBuyDirect combined with the Truth Stick to check dimensions and its worked out well so far. Thom On Aug 20, 8:29 pm, Susan <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been following this blog for a few months now. I finally got > around to getting a new prescription, picked up the glasses I ordered > today and now I am ready to order online. I have a few questions: > > Is there one feature size I should look for and then work from there? > The glasses I have now are 50-20-135 and they fit pretty good. I > havent found any frames that I like with those exact measurements. I > am thinking I should start with the width of 135 (or close to it) and > see what I can find that I like. How much bigger or smaller do you > think I could go as far as the bridge or temple? > > I will be ordering progressives. Any thoughts on which seller is > better/worse for them? > > Any info you can give a first timer would be greatly appreciated! > Susan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
