We Are Going Back 50 Years In Fashion................

[Chris Ryser]

While updating my website listing I clicked on the Rem Eyeware site and what a surprise.............the latest frames with rivet hinges

Lucky Brand Spectacles: Andy

Like in the old days................press out rivets, change the hinges and patient can use the frame until it dies of old age. Now opticians will have to re-learn to get back in times and do repairs. :D

[chip anderson]

Still got plenty rivits and plenty hinges. Even have some frames in the junk box made this way.

chip

[cocoisland58]

I hate the Lucky Brand line. Brought them in a while ago and have sold two of the aviator styles for sunglasses which looked pretty cool because they are small enough for women. Exchanged for "new" styles a few months ago. Next stop back to Rem which my rep agreed to when we put them in. A "what was I thinking" buy. If you were to inspect that rivet frame closer you might find it is not the old rivet style but a replica and cannot be changed out. I don't have this one but I betcha it's just decor.

[Jacqui]

I think you will see more "repairable" frames in the future because of the economy. I applaud this, it's more bucks in my pocket when a repair is needed. And NO I don't think rivets look tacky !!

[chip anderson]

I get the impression that not too many opticians have bothered to learn that "invisible" hinges are repairable or replaceable also. It' just those "wonderfull" spring hinges that we can't do much with.

Chip

[Jacqui]

I get the impression that not too many opticians have bothered to learn that "invisible" hinges are repairable or replaceable also. It' just those "wonderfull" spring hinges that we can't do much with.

Chip

I do repair hidden hinges, it's just that the ones with rivets are more fun :bbg: :bbg:

[THE MEB]

I wear a Lucky Brand "Emery". It's a tortoise combination frame, similar to the old Ronsir frames, but B measurement not as deep. Everyone likes them on me, and I must say, they are holding up better than I remember the Ronsir holding up. We do just "so-so" with the complete line.

[For-Life]

I get the impression that not too many opticians have bothered to learn that "invisible" hinges are repairable or replaceable also. It' just those "wonderfull" spring hinges that we can't do much with.

Chip

I can fix a spring hinge. Well provide a pretty good fix.

[edKENdance]

My boss is getting some old school frames made in Germany. Rivets etc... all custom one offs. The word of the day is CHUNKY!

[Kattb]

We have had the Lucky brand on our board for about 4 months and have not sold one...I hate them also. Ugly frames but cool jeans. Kattb

[Happylady]

I was looking around some high end optical shops in Dallas and I was seeing more round and P3 shapes. Perhaps they are the next big shape. We've had oval and now rectangular, maybe it's time for something new.

[edKENdance]

I was looking around some high end optical shops in Dallas and I was seeing more round and P3 shapes. Perhaps they are the next big shape. We've had oval and now rectangular, maybe it's time for something new.

We are also bringing in a few P3's. If you treat your glasses really well then every 15 years or so you can be in fashion again.

BTW, I think Al Frankins' trademark glasses still look great on him.

[Trevor D]

Some of these frames have the "rivets" stuck on to the front for show. Be careful of the cheaper ones!

[Chris Ryser]

Some of these frames have the "rivets" stuck on to the front for show. Be careful of the cheaper ones!

Gllued on rivet heads ?????????????????????

Maybe the hinge manufacturers can not produce them anymore. :hammer:

[Fezz]

What is old is new again!

The *fashion* world goes round and round, round and round, round and round!

[Johns]

I like to relate "fashion" to the real estate world.

Last night my wife was looking through the real estate ads.

"Wow, look at how much these houses are going for. $690K, 710K, 480K..."

I reminded her that if it's listed in the ad, it hasn't sold, and they can ask anything they want for it. Doesn't mean they'll get it, and they usually don't.

Just because these frame companies come out with all these new (and old) styles, and we buy them, doesn't guarantee that they we will be able to sell them.

They can ask the consumers to wear anything they design, but that doesn't mean they'll always wear it. Some of our best sellers would get laughed out of many offices due to their seemingly outdated styles, (ladies metals in 53 eye?) but we still do well with them.

[DragonLensmanWV]

What is old is new again!

The *fashion* world goes round and round, round and round, round and round!

Yeah, the Annie Hall look is just getting here.

[harry a saake]

i love the p-3 shape, is there anything better for any type of bifocal as a p-3, and with progressives you almost never have to use a short corridor progressive

[Jacqui]

i love the p-3 shape, is there anything better for any type of bifocal as a p-3, and with progressives you almost never have to use a short corridor progressive

I wear one !! or maybe two

[Andrew Weiss]

Uncle Fester, I think you'll have to return my father's old hinge-repair kit. I may need those rivets, plaques and 5BBL hinges yet!! :D

[MarcE]

Some of our best sellers would get laughed out of many offices due to their seemingly outdated styles, (ladies metals in 53 eye?) but we still do well with them.

Sell them every day.

I got a brand new AO "reduex" (you know the zyl bolt on top brow w/ a thin metal eyewire w/ zyl temples) for myself and I get compliments every day. And not just from my staff who are required by contract to stroke my ego, but from normally disinterested people, like my WIFE!

Since it's bedtime, I think I will put them one right now.;)

There! Specs on. Ready for bed.

"Honey, does this 2.50 add make me look old?"

Out.

[i care guy]

Just wondering if anyone attended the Vision Expo in Vegas?
What were some of the latest trends?
I saw a review and it seems lots of old are new again.
I think it's too soon for the come back. Don't you think?

Are the consumers ready for these shapes?

[Chris Ryser]

Consumers will be ready for anything they can momentarily afford. Maybe the time has come when you finally can get rid of some frames you stored in a box down in the basement.

[Andrew Weiss]

One of the glasses I wear is a ProDesign semi-rimless P-3. Small (44 eye), which works well on my narrow face. I get a lot of complements on it, even though I think it makes my face look longer. :(

I've noticed for years that parents, especially mothers, prefer seeing their children in round-ish or oval frames rather than rectangular ones. I've come to realize that it's because it generally makes the child look younger and sweeter, more vulnerable. I'm wondering if the same perception is at work in adult eyeglass frames -- e.g., oval/round-ish frames give a sweeter appearance, rectangular ones give a sharper-edged, more assertive one.

[EyeFitWell]

I've noticed for years that parents, especially mothers, prefer seeing their children in round-ish or oval frames rather than rectangular ones. I've come to realize that it's because it generally makes the child look younger and sweeter, more vulnerable. I'm wondering if the same perception is at work in adult eyeglass frames -- e.g., oval/round-ish frames give a sweeter appearance, rectangular ones give a sharper-edged, more assertive one.

Clever insight, Andrew!
What do my bright red cat-eyes say about me?:cheers: