FashionSpecsDirect – your best choice for fashion glasses direct to your home.

1. How do glasses correct sight?

People need glasses to correct blurred vision. Blurring occurs when the image of the object that you are looking at is not focussed in the correct place on the retina at the back of the eye. There are four reasons why the image can focus in the wrong place! ...read more!

2. Home adjustment of your glasses, spectacles and sunglasses

Glasses have become rather precise and somewhat delicate engineering instruments in recent times. There are carefully calculated points of leverage and balance in the primary axes that can either work for you or against you! ...read more!

3. How to choose your glasses, spectacles and sunglasses

As with most things, it is true also with glasses that in the end you get what you pay for. It is also true that it is quite possible to pay a premium for glasses that appear of good quality and are attractive - but yet are not well constructed and in the end you will not be happy...read more!

4. Proven tips to clean your glasses, spectacles and sunglasses

It's just natural that over time - and sometimes not too much time - you can accumulate all kinds of gunge on your facewear. There are 3 areas that need distinctive care - the lens itself, the nosepads and the frame...read more!

5. The difference between Ready Readers and prescription reading glasses

Ready readers are the name usually given to the "off the shelf" reading glasses that can be purchased easily and economically on the high street...read more!

6. Transitions ,Reactions, Photochromic or Reactolight lenses

Reactolite lenses are glass, Transitions and Reactions are plastic and as a consequence, the Reactolites tend to be considerably heavier...read more!

7. What is anti-reflection coating for glasses and how does it work

When light hits the lens most travels through the lens into the eye - that is how you see !. A small proportion of the inbound light however is reflected off the front surface and can make the glasses unsightly as well as more susceptible to glare...read more!

8. How do you know when you need glasses

It may sound obvious that you will know when you need glasses - but declining eyesight in most cases sneaks up on you, and it can be difficult to realise that you need some support or that the "symptoms" have become more than just casual or intermittent....read more!

9. Driving Glasses - fact and fiction

There are numerous sites and frequent offers for what are described as "Driving Glasses" - as we know eyesight and Driving Good eyesight is vital for safe driving ....read more!

10. Comparing Polycarbonate Lenses with Standard CR39 Lenses

Polycarbonate lenses are typically used in rimless and are deemed to be thinner and lighter....read more!

11. Glasses Material and Construction

Have you ever wondered what your spectacle frame is made of? ...read more!

12. Bifocal Glasses - history

How did Bifocals get their start ?? ...read more!