Written by admin on 24 July 2009
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It is midsummer now. Hot sunlight heartlessly spreads itself with a great ambition, but human beings are clever enough to invite sunglasses to protect the eyes. Therefore, sunglasses have raised their social status, and they will be found almost every bag. Do not underestimate the function of sunglasses. Although they are quite small, sunglasses, as a helper to protect the eyes from sunlight, they also could show the taste of the wearers. The trend always follows the fashion show and changes season from season. Let’s see together how about the sunglasses in this summer.
Metal is back!
Normally speaking, sunglasses with metal frames are often supposed to be men’s; although there are sometimes some pairs of sunglasses for women, the number of these are quite small. To our surprise, metal materials in this summer try to attack the women’s market in a large scale, which has to be regarded as the result of the neutral fashion. Metal frames endow women with capable images but not losing elegance. The thin and narrow appearance of the sunglasses will make the office ladies have the temperature of fineness, independence, and hidden charm. As for styles, the metal sunglasses for women are different from men’s—they use round small or narrow long lenses to substitute the large ones which are applied to the men’s sunglasses. Such kind of sunglasses for women will present the beauty which is hardly detained.
Color attracts the eyes!
After seeing the clothes in these fashion shows, you may find the colors of summer often flaunt themselves. The trend that colors of summer should be voluptuous and rich will be applied in many areas from clothes to ornaments. Bright peach red, jewelry blue, bright red, lavender…… All the colors seem to be mixed on the color palette and appear on the sunglasses of this summer. Some of the sunglasses have the consistent color, and some have their colors collided and contrasted. Nevertheless, we could not deny the fact that no matter how complicated the colors are, they do not offend our eyes in the hot summer stage. In the shinny sunlight, the stronger the colors are, the more obvious one’s character shows.
The style of goggles calls for coolness!
Dior Homme of this summer, the sunglasses like swim goggles, maybe takes most of people aback, but the individual style indeed attracts many people’s hearts. Therefore, many famous brands tend to catch this trend and add the style of goggles to the sunglasses. Such kind of sunglasses will be as surprising as the swim goggles; however, they abandon the pretence and replace the previous charm of women with rare ease and pizzazz. To match them, the cool Denim clothes will be the best choice.
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Written by admin on 22 April 2009
Variations Of Eyewear
Magnifying lenses which are used to treat mild hyperopia and presbyopia, normally referred to as reading eyewear, can be bought off the shelf. Most eyewear are made to an individual prescription, based on degree of myopia or hyperopia combined with astigmatism if applicable. Lenses can be ground to specific prescriptions, but in some cases standard off-the-shelf prescriptions suffice, though they require custom fitting to particular frames.
As people age, their ability to focus is lessened and many decide to use multiple-focus lenses, bifocal or even trifocal to cover all the situations in which they use their sight. Traditional multifocal lenses have two or three distinct horizontal viewing areas, each requiring a conscious effort of refocusing. Some modern multifocal lenses, such as Progressive lenses (known as “no-line bifocals”), give a smooth transition between these different focal points, unnoticeable by most wearers, while other eyewear have lenses specifically intended for use with computer monitors at a fixed distance. People may have several pairs of eyewear, one for each task or distance, with specific eyewear for reading, computer use, television watching, and writing.
Rimless
Three-piece rimless and semi-rimless eyewear are common variations that differ from regular eyewear in that their frames do not completely encircle the lenses. Three-piece rimless eyewear have no frame around the lenses, and the bridge and temples are mounted directly onto the lenses. Semi-rimless (or half-rimless) eyewear have a frame that only partially encircles the lenses (commonly the top portion). When the style was first introduced in the 1930s, lenses were screwed directly to the front of the frame; most modern variations feature the lenses held inside of the frame by high strength nylon wire,[13] although the semi-rimless style has been around since at least the 1940s. A rare and currently noncommercial variation are rimless and frameless eyewear attached to a piercing at the bridge of a wearers nose.[14] Such eyewear have the visual look of the pince-nez.
Glazing
Spectacle lenses are edged into the frame’s rim using glazing machines operated by ophthalmic technicians. The edging process begins with a trace being taken of the frame’s eye shape. In earlier days the trace was replicated onto a plastic pattern called a Former. Nowadays the process is patternless and the shape is sent to the edger electronically.
The lens, in the form of a round uncut, is positioned in the correct manner to match the prescription and a block is stuck to the lens and that block fits into a chuck in the edging machine. A diamond coated wheel spins as the edger replicates the frame’s eye-shape to the uncut lens. A ‘v’ bevel is applied to allow the edge of the lens to fit into the frame rim.
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