Though her exact pair is no longer available online, these Valley Eyewear frames have a similar look - and a tip from Sow: always go to the optometrist when you need new glasses. That’s the secret honestly: turn cool sunglasses into regular eyeglasses.” Sow has been wearing that pair ever since, and is hoping to buy a backup sometime: “I love these glasses so much, I email the manufacturer once/year to ask if they’ll make them again because they’re sold out online,” says Sow. Blue Light Reading glasses reduce eye strain, eliminate dry eyes. “They were dusty and had probably been there forever but I knew they were the ones. Available with prescription and zero power, they take the strain off your eyes on. Her hunt to find a glasses store that was actually open led her to an independent optometrist with a “no-frills” store, where a pair of sunglasses from Valley Eyewear caught her eye. It turns out that Sow’s are from Valley Eyewear, and she got them during a trip to Melbourne, in a moment of panic after losing her original eyeglasses on the flight (it also happened to be the day of the Melbourne Cup, which Sow says is “basically their Kentucky Derby and almost everything is shut down”). Writer and Call Your Girlfriend podcast host Aminatou Sow was one of the first people that came to mind when we started thinking about cool-glasses wearers - and luckily, Sow was willing to fill us in on her bold round frames’ origin. /rebates/&.com252fnon-bifocal-reading-glasses. “I love them both for style (they aren’t boring, but they go with everything) and wearability (they kinda disappear so I feel less like I am wearing blinders),” Corsillo says. This pair - sans tortoiseshell stems -has the same shape and comes in an “antique crystal” shade. “I have wasted a lot of money trying to find what works both for my face and my prescription, so now I only go to the SEE Eyewear in Soho - the staff is super-friendly and helpfully realistic when it comes to which frames will work with my coke-bottle lenses.” Corsillo’s current pair - which have clear frames with tortoiseshell stems - are no longer available on SEE’s website. When Corsillo looks for a new pair of frames, she has to find ones that can support the thicker lenses that come with her prescription - so going frameless or with a delicate frame is largely out of the question. Snl Mary Katherine Gallagher Clear Cat Eye Glasses 11.80 Sku: 1030-2. “Without glasses or contact lenses I cannot see anything clearly until it is about an inch away from my face, which means my choice of glasses is frustratingly limited,” she says. Lexi Designer Inspired Metal Flat Lens Cat Eye Clear Glasses 14.80 Sku: 5936-1. Strategist senior writer Liza Corsillo is also in the clear-frames club, and says that the only place she’ll go for eyeglasses is SEE.
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