I will be purchasing a pair in September. They cost a fortune. I was wondering about durability. I am also getting a Crizal coating on the lens. If you know these products please share your wisdom with me before I spend our hard earned money.I had a horrible and expensive experience with my last pair of glasses. (Not Sillouhettes or Crizal.) Thank you!
2007-08-09 02:25:41 · 4 answers · asked by Just 27 1 in Health ➔ Optical
I personally have never work the Sillouette brand but I have heard nothing but POSITIVE feedback. I used to work for a large optical chain and people would come in and look for the Sillouette brand. When I advised them we didn't carry them - I was told - well you should - they're fantastic!
My understanding is they are super durable and they hold there shape very well.
As for the crizal coating - your eye carrier may refer to it as an anti reflective coating. You will not be sorry! It is the best thing ever for glasses. Have the optical provider you choose show you the difference with a lens that has the coating and one that does not...it's amazing the difference. The lenses are so clear - you see into the person's eye and not the relection of light bouncing off of them.
Photographs? How wonderful is it to have a photograph taken where you don't have the reflection from the camera flash showing in your glasses?
If you work at all around a computer or under flourescent lights - you will love it! Reduces eye strain - it truly does.
You do need to be careful with the crizal coating and always wet your lenses before you clean them. They don't scratch super easy but obviously nothing is scratch proof so you want to ensure you protect your investment.
I have the anti-reflective/crizal coating on all my lenses, including the back of my sunglass lenses - and it's fantastic.
Well worth the investment - for both the Sillouette brand and the crizal coating.
Good Luck!
2007-08-09 04:54:40 · answer #1 · answered by klmmlk27 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are wonderful lightweight good-looking glasses.
A good anti-reflection anti-scratch coating like Crizal is always to be recommended.
But rimless do have an appreciable casualty rate, and in my last two years of practice we moved to always recommending polycarbonate lenses (there are a variety of brand names) for Silhouette and similar, to reduce this.
The rimless are best for people who wear their glasses all the time. Constant taking them on and off, and leaving them around to be sat on, have books put on them... That's where most of the damage occured.
The other point is that rimless lenses can look, and be, thicker than than can be achieved with very thin full rim metal frames. For moderate prescriptions and up (+/- 4.00 and above), the best result for appearance *may* not be a rimless pair at all.
Optometrist, retired.
2007-08-09 07:34:11 · answer #2 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eyeglasses are such a rip....
My Dad had rimless glasses years ago, actual glass lenses. They looked flimsy, but like the birch tree, they bent and flexed and seldom snapped. With the new plastics for lenses I don't see that as a problem.
Recently I was in Mexico and my glasses broke. I was able to get a new pair, for $55, which included frames, lenses AND THE EXAM. The whole deal took about 45 minutes.
Fit was perfect and frames are great, not rimless but very thin and very light weight.
I would suggest a lot of googling about what your specific needs are. Maybe you can answer some of the concerns you have...
2007-08-09 02:43:23 · answer #3 · answered by andyg77 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom has some, and she has a hard time keeping them adjusted correctly.
2007-08-09 04:52:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋