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by emodendroket 3162 days ago
My wife is Korean and was shocked that she couldn't get a pair for like $30. Also, I think the glasses she ended up with were probably considerably more than $100 but your options are really narrowed if you have an Asian nose (many glasses that would work fine for me just slide off of her face).
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She can go to (say) zennioptical and pay $30 for a perfectly good pair.
I've never heard of it.
I can vouch too, $20 lenses and frames
I am currently wearing my "looking at the monitor glasses" that I bought from Zenni Optical.I bought it somewhere between 4 and 6 years ago for around $15.

I have three pairs of driving glasses, a pair for running,a rimless pair, and a pair for use at work. They are all from Zenni and were all bought 4 to 6 years ago. They have various levels of tinting from none to fairly dark. Antireflection and antiscratch coating were standard. The most expensive was $30.

I would like to buy some new glasses from Zenni, but my optometric prescription has not changed and the frames and lenses are still in ridiculously good shape.

I rejoiced when my work glasses has a nasal bridge fall off. Unfortunately, I found that I was able to repair it in a few seconds.

So despite the pittance that it costs, I still use these old glasses. Perhaps if I carefully drop some dumbbells on them.... :-)

I paid $30 for a pair of glasses from Zenniopitcal and they are of fine quality, not dissimilar than the $300 I used to pay. My girlfriend has been using them for a decade now and she's asian...
The little bridge nubins are adjustable though.
I think she didn't like those; the glasses she ended up with are the kind where the bridge is part of the plastic frame.