Types of Women's Eyeglasses

Video Transcript

"I’m going to introduce you to a few of the different types of styles of women’s glasses here today. We’re going to start off by looking at a full metal frame. This frame has a, the frame goes all the way around the lenses; there’s a screw that brings the two parts together to hold the lens in. The other type that we have to talk about is going to be a plastic style frame, completely a casing around the lenses, a little bit bolder a little thicker than let’s say your metal frame. Here we have what we call a semi-rimless style frame so it’s going to have a monofilament string that goes around the lenses. The lens will be grooved and that string will be inserted into that groove and hold it in place. This is going to be a little bit less conspicuous than let’s say either the plastic or the full metal frame. And probably the less conspicuous of them all is probably going to be our drill mount rimless frame, the frame is actually drilled into the lens, so there is nothing that goes around the lens, the, it’s drilled in two places in each lens, once on the nasal and then once where we call the temple and again these are going to be the less conspicuous type of glasses. So these are the four types of glasses that we are going to continue to talk about. "