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I attended an eye test last week and it looks like I’ll need a slightly stronger prescription for distance glasses. I visited my local optician to look at the frames and I came across a lovely pair of purple framed glasses which were in the female section. The guy was totally fine for me to try on women’s glasses maybe thinking that I am transgender as I was wearing a long goth black dress and DM boots. Anyway, I decided to go for the purple framed glasses and I pick them up next week.

https://www.specsavers.co.uk/glasses/ta ... gI2ffD_BwE

I have saved myself an awful lot of money by being unfazed by what side of the aisle my glasses frames come from.
Just another item where gender assignment is pretty meaningless.
On a different note, in your neck of the woods, "Land o' Spex", formerly "Spexpistols", is a brilliant place for unusual glasses frames.
Steve.

When my local opticians were refitting the shop a while ago, they had "men's" and "women's" rather prominently on opposite sides of the shop. I commented to the manager that I didn't buy glasses by sex, I bought them by shape and style. She replied "I'm glad you said that": she had obviously been having the conversation with someone further up the company. I think they've made the sex-labelling much weaker now.

DrFishnets wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:21 pmI attended an eye test last week and it looks like I’ll need a slightly stronger prescription for distance glasses. I visited my local optician to look at the frames and I came across a lovely pair of purple framed glasses which were in the female section.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could move beyond this completely asinine notion of assigning gender to inanimate objects and then prohibiting the use of same beyond a certain human gender?

Moonshadow ran into this with his eyeglasses not so long ago, and it infuriated him as well. I'm headed for the same thing, and I'm not looking forward to it as I need corrective lenses now to drive with (legally) -- and I'm looking for an old-school set of 1980s large-frame-large-lens styles to accommodate the way I drive (where my head bobs around a lot as I have to peer under the rear-view mirror). My first girlfriend had a very lovely pair that I'm looking to duplicate (if such things are still available in these acetic times). The 1970s and very early '80s were amazingly vibrant times with many very attractive styles (in all manner of attire) that went unobtanium with the rise of the hard right in the mid '80s. That was very sad -- and entirely needless (save to put the sheep in their place). And the situation continues to worsen.

crfriend wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:37 pm Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could move beyond this completely asinine notion of assigning gender to inanimate objects and then prohibiting the use of same beyond a certain human gender?

I completely agree but to be fair the guy who helped me choose the glasses was perfectly fine for me to look at the female section. In a perfect world all glasses should be genderless just like clothes but unfortunately we still have fashion dictators who think and say that men should stick to boring drab male fashions which I totally disagree with. My only concern about buying glasses from the female section was the size but fortunately they fitted me.

STEVIE wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:39 pm I have saved myself an awful lot of money by being unfazed by what side of the aisle my glasses frames come from.
Just another item where gender assignment is pretty meaningless.
On a different note, in your neck of the woods, "Land o' Spex", formerly "Spexpistols", is a brilliant place for unusual glasses frames.
Steve.

I got the glasses for a £27 through then NHS voucher discount. However, I forgot all about Land O’Spex which is a pity because I heard they stock really good designer glasses but not sure if they do NHS discounts.

DrFishnets wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:09 pmI completely agree but to be fair the guy who helped me choose the glasses was perfectly fine for me to look at the female section.

And good for him! I'll likely be doing the same thing in some weeks' time.

My only concern about buying glasses from the female section was the size but fortunately they fitted me.

As far as I know there are no substantial differences in the fit for eyeglasses. It's only the styles that differ.

Gasses sit on your face and therefore become part of your personality and give cues to how people perceive you. You should choose glasses with this in mind and not worry about the labels attached to them or what rack you picked them from.

The glasses technician job is to make sure the lenses you need will fit the frame you like. For me, since I needed high strength optics, the larger the frame, the thicker the glass/plastic would be at the edge of the lens, so I was limited as to how big a frame I could select. The measurement is all about getting the centre of your eye in the centre of the lens when it is in the frame you have selected.

Now I don't need glasses, I worried about the change in my appearance and style. I have covered that with a range of sunglasses and safety glasses, which I now mostly go without, since I am forgetful and lazy.

Nothing wrong with choosing "Purple" frames.
That gives me a bit of the 'Elton John' vibe,
which he adopted into daily life.

Uncle Al