Recommended fashion glasses shop?

[youandiaredominoes]

Hi there

I'm looking to buy some new glasses frames and would like to buy non branded or original looking specs. There are some good shops such as opera opera in covent garden but charge around ?300-400 for just the frames. They look fab but wondered if anyone could recommend a cheaper alternative either near east dulwich or elsewhere in London?

Many thanks in advance!

[bheroniphr]

Hi,

For a few years now I've bought mine online. For designer frames it is usually under ?100 including prescription& thinner lenses.

Just go to D&A or Vision Express, get your test done and and ask for a copy of your prescription. Choose your frames and note down the number. Then go to an online retailer and put in the code, voila! Save ?300!!

I've used these guys before http://www.selectspecs.com/ - I'll warn you, customer service is non-existent and you can wait two to three weeks but they do turn up. (I've also had lenses from them tested and they were apparently of excellent quality)

Hope this helps!

[Sue]

bheroniphr Wrote:

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> Hi,

>

> For a few years now I've bought mine online. For

> designer frames it is usually under ?100 including

> prescription& thinner lenses.

>

> Just go to D&A or Vision Express, get your test

> done and and ask for a copy of your prescription.

> Choose your frames and note down the number. Then

> go to an online retailer and put in the code,

> voila! Save ?300!!

>

> I've used these guys before

> http://www.selectspecs.com/ - I'll warn you,

> customer service is non-existent and you can wait

> two to three weeks but they do turn up. (I've also

> had lenses from them tested and they were

> apparently of excellent quality)

>

> Hope this helps!

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Be very careful if you have varifocals though.

I used to get my specs online, but it's obviously very hard to get the lenses right if they are going by photos etc.

And they didn't .... twice.

[bheroniphr]

Yeah, I'd have to say all mine are just single vision...

[Lowlander]

I just buy online now...get the prescription and glasses serial number.

Some online ones are ok and will send out a bunch of glasses for you to try on at home, my last pair took just 3 or 4 days to arrive

[mlteenie]

Iris Optical are good plus have stores you can try on in, but the new one in Lordship down from the Co Op sells nice frames like Anglo American. The one in Dulwich Village is v expensive IMO.

[olegvv]

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