A pair of spectacles might look cheap but it is one of those things you took for granted and now costs a bomb.
I have been wearing glasses since I was in the 7th/8th Std and back then the choices were simple and frames costed just 150 bucks. In 12- 13 years it has grown to more than 10 times that rate. The cheapest I saw made me look like the bee-girl from the Blind Melon's No Rain video.
It's not just the frames that have become expensive - it's also the glass in the spectacles. Each glass costs nothing short of 450 bucks. And the variety.. dear lord, it will make your head spin. You have tinted ones, anti-radiation coating, anti-scratch coating, ant-glare coating... in the end, the coating is as thick as the glass itself.
Yesterday, I went to Titan Eye plus to upgrade my good old Anglo-American half rimmed glasses to a cool trendy one. And I was disappointed. For all the advertising blitz and the choice displayed in the website and I came out empty handed. The choice was limited and none of them fit my tiny face.
Wake up! Different people have different face shapes and sizes and it's not a one size fits all category anymore. Also, the "corporate" line of Titan Eye plus was the most infantile collection I saw. I expected a classy line and I got a frame with orange spots on the side!
I have given up on finding a good not too expensive pair of frames. My emancipation from this search could come from Anglo-American which I will check out this weekend.
P.s: I liked the collection at GKB, but they were very expensive and I found one that was my size.