Warby Paker

After 3 years it is time for some new glasses. I’m pretty sure the prescription has not changed that much, but tradition is tradition, so new glasses I’ll get. And I’ll add the current ones to the drawer where the other last two pairs of glasses reside, so if I want a different look, they are there for the taking.

From left to right, the top row, Dawson’s in Azure Crystal with Oak Barrel (Current pair), the Vaughn in Eastern Bluebird Fade and the Sadie in Riverbed Tortoise. Bottom row, Santiago in Hudson Blue Fade, the Gillian in Teal Tortoise and the Newman in Shoreline.

The current front runner is the Santiago in Hudson Blue Fade because it is similar in shape and style to the current pair. But, I find myself leaning towards Gillian in Teal Tortoise because it is a slightly different shape and because of my love of all things Gillian Anderson.

In the last chapter of “Brian Gets New Glasses”, we left our hero with the leading contender for his next set of glasses as the Dawson, but he was not totally sold on them. In this chapter he gets a second set of Warby Parker Home Try On frames with four new choices and another of the previous set’s front runner again.

Below is a galley of second set of glasses. Top row from left to right: The returning #1 Dawson, #2 Weathers and #3 Keene. Bottom row from left to right: #4 Wright, #5 James and the current #6 Wilder.

Well, now the waters have been muddied a bit.

I still kind of like the #1 Dawson, but after trying them all on one after another, the leader by a nose is the #2 Weathers. And now after looking at the pictures I took today, the #3 Keene aren’t a bad choice either, they are in the same color of my previous glasses that broke on Halloween, Beach Glass, and they have the same look as the #6 Wilder I’m currently wearing.

So, the only ones that have been really eliminated are the #4 Wright which seem too big, the #5 James because they are metal frames that are $50 more than the others (and I don’t like them that much) and the #6 Widler because they don’t sell them anymore.

Don’t worry, I’ll keep you posted…

Last Thursday’s post I showed pictures of the 5 frames from Warby Parker that I chose to try on at home. They showed up on Tuesday and now here are what they looked like on my face. Below are the Warby Parker images of the frames and when you hover over them you can see what they looked like on my face. I don’t know if it the lighting with me sitting in the desk chair with natural window light from the upper left or what, but almost all of the frames looked nothing like what they looked like on the web.

Dawson Azure Crystal/Oak Barrel	Durand Striped Pacific	Percey Tidal Blue
Whalen Lapis Crystal	Yardley Blue Marbled Tortoise	Wilder Squall Blue Fade

The last photo, Wilder in Squall Blue Fade, is a picture of what I’m wearing right now and they are nearly 6 years old. I’m using them because the ones I’ve been wearing for the last four years, a set of Lyle in Beach Glass, broke on Halloween evening.

Right now the leading contender for my next set of glasses is the first one, the Dawson, which has a different color on the front of the frame compared to the earpieces, but I’m now totally sold on them. As soon as this set of frames make it back to Warby I’ll get a second set sent out to me to try four more different frames and the Dawson again.

After a 2-1/2 year hiatus, we made appointments to get our eyes examined. Today was the day.

We got a recommendation from the nice lady at the bookstore and it was 2 doors down from our dentist, so we ended up at Basin Eyecare Center. Our appointments were an hour and a half apart because that is how long they allot for a comprehensive eye exam. Mine was scheduled first, but when we got there we asked to swap times because Donna takes longer to come down from the dilation procedure. Turns out, both doctors were in the house, so we both got in not too long after each other.

We were in and out in under 2 hours total and that included Donna picking out some frames from a catalog to have them get in for her. Me, I skipped that part of the process because I’m going the Warby Parker route again when it comes to the frames. My initial 5 pairs of Home Try-ons are in the image above. I’ve tried the Percey before, but it was in Crystal and no matter how much I like the idea of clear frames, they just don’t look good on my extremely pale complexion. I have high hopes for the Dawson because I like the idea of different color temple pieces, so we’ll see¹.