Hippy Sunglasses

Feeling Groovy | Hippie Sunglasses

They say that shades make the hippie and it really is true. On this page you will find everything from round tinted John Lennon glasses to giant mofo Charlies Angels brown face hiders.

Pupil Distance & How It?s Measured

Pupil distance is the distance (measured in mm) between the pupils of your eyes when looking far away in the distance.

When prescription lenses are cut for the frame you have selected, our edging computers are programmed with your pupil distance so that the exact centers of the lenses are direc...

CooperVision Expands Offerings for ProclearŪ 1-Day Contact Lenses

Plus sphere powers and a new 30-day lens carton offer more options for patients and practitioners

Fairport, N.Y. - CooperVision has expanded the sphere powers of its Proclear 1-Day contact lenses. A new plus sphere power range up to +6.00D allows even more patients to experience the health, c...

Eyewear Updates through Twitter

We've added Twitter to our list of information options. For those not familiar, Twitter is a unique form of messaging, sort of a cross between text messaging and instant messaging. It's all text and you get a total of 140 characters for your message which is distributed to all of your followers ...

Look Up: Ray Ban Wayfarers Colors

To help launch the new Wayfarer Color Collection, Ray-Ban collaborated with five prominent underground artists in New York for the Project Colorize Campaign, which culminated with a daylong event last month.

"Project Colorize," part of the month-long Public Art Gallery project, features the wor...

Hurricane Ike Can?t Keep Us Down!

Due to problems at the Marathon Tower data center cause by Hurricane Ike, the FramesDirect.com web site was down for nearly a day. We appear to be back up and apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused to our loyal visitors. Considering the amount of damage and lack of power that man...

Optical Discussion Board Unveiled

We're happy to announce the addition of an Optical Discussion Board feature to The Eye Zone blog. The new forum-like interface on our discussion board page provides an easy to read and follow list of all recent comments posted on the blog. Visitors no longer have to go to the actual blog posts t...

The USAF Thunderbirds Soar in Scheyden Flip Up Sunglasses

(Vacaville, CA) Over Labor Day weekend, Travis Air Force Base hosted the Air Expo, featuring the Thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds, U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, put on quite a spectacular show, despite the high wind gusts that came through. Adults and kids of all ages came out to se...

Polarization Advantages in Fishing Sunglasses

It starts 93 million miles away with the sun belting out unimaginable amounts of light ... visible, ultraviolet and infared. Here at home, the light bounces off the water and suddenly, we have glare. Eye strain and washed-out colors are constant, nagging problems, even when fishing on overcast d...

Angel Eyewear?s Pink Promise to Fight Breast Cancer

Angel Eyewear sends a Pink Promise to you this season to aid in Breast Cancer awareness and prevention.

Because everyone needs an Angel watching over them, this season Angel Eyewear has adapted one of its most popular styles, Imagination sunglasses, to reflect the company's dedication to the f...

A Conversation with Laurence Lafont

Parisian-born Laurence Lafont began designing eyewear in the '70s out of necessity, she says. After marrying into the optical business - her husband, Philippe Lafont, is the grandson of the founder of the Lafont boutiques in Paris - she began noting the lack of interesting eyewear. "I said to ...