Eye Spy | A Warby Parker Review

Let’s just put this out there: Getting older sucks in some ways. Just as you’ve dug into new levels of self-confidence and self-awareness, along comes crud like biology and the inevitability of age.

For me, it’s eyesight. I struggled with horrible blind-as-a-bat eyesight for years. Then I had lasik eye surgery in 1998 and everything changed. Easy to read road signs! The ability to see my alarm clock! No eyeglasses! Wonderful.

Then hello to 45 and a vague awareness that the tv screen and slideshows on distant screens weren’t quite as crisp as they used to be.

Rats.

If I have to wear eyeglasses for improved distance viewing, I’m at least going to be a wise spender while being fashionable at the same time.

Enter Warby Parker.

Simply go online and select up to 5 styles you’d like to try on. A few days later, tester frames arrive in the mail.

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Check out what I checked out (all photos taken at the end of a veeeery long workday):

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Seriously, I didn’t even try to smile.

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Then you simply return all of the testers, go back online to select the pair you prefer, upload your prescription and wait.

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Voila! Easy fashionable glasses. At just $95, that’s a deal I can handle.

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