what is the reason that women are switching to glasses nowadays?
407737
I blame it on allergies, this year they are bad and I can't wear my contacts like I would like
370631
Yea.... it doesnt matter... personality does.. but depends on the glasses.. but it can make u look intellectual. KUDOS to men with and w/out glasses.
179946
Do you mean bifocals or trifocals which are worn by older people to compensate for needing to see far (nearsightedness) and having a problem reading.\n\nReading glasses only work for reading and close work like embroidery or scrapbooking. You can't read signs, clocks across the room, etc.
255935
Many opticians don't receive a traditional education in fitting glasses.  Most are trained on the job by other opticians (who may or may not know the proper way to do things).
252453
It probably made the ones with weaker eyes survive and reproduce, where they would have easily died without glasses, and that's why so many people have the eye problems that are present today.
497571
I think you're asking why after age 35 people need glasses.  Around the age of 40 (a little earlier for some people and later for others), the lens of the eye basically loses its elasticity.  In younger people, the lens changes shape to help you focus at different distances.  When the lens gets stiffer, it can't focus at closer distances so people need reading glasses to help them see up close.
156029
When I don't have my glasses on. I can't see where they are to wear them.\n\nSo I always complain: where are you so I can wear you? And so it wears me out me to try to find where they are so I can wear them. I get so tired, that I need to drink glasses, and glasses (of water), before I realize that I have been wearing then all along.\nAnd, as a matter of fact, I've been wearing these, for over 15 years..So, one could say, they are pretty worn out.
248628
I wear glasses, is saying that you use glases for your eyesight.\n\nI am wearing glasses means that you are wearing glasses at this moment while talking to me.
450627
Truth is it's normal to have to change glasses regularly because your eye power keeps changing - if you wear your current glasses alot - it will probably help and your power will go down - hence a new pair for your new needs... if you don't wear your glasses much then it's probably reasonable that your power will go up and a new pair is in sight. I've been wearing glasses since I was 4 - and trust me I've had more than 4 pairs of glasses - think of it as a chance to revamp yourself... don't worry, often if you take good cair of your eyes (wear ur glasses often) and don't be too vain... sometimes you get cured... and if that doesn'thappen there's always laser eye surgery when ur older.
65151
I agree with some of your assessment, but I think at it's root is the history of who could afford glasses, going waaaay back. Only the wealthy (and therefore educated) could even afford them.\n\nAs to nerdy or not. I suppose some consider it more vain to wear contacts and therefore conversely those who wear glasses are less socially inclined, etc.
979634
Because companies love to profit off of the blind and the hearing impaired. If you think abou it. All eye glasses are are 2 pieces of glass with a metal frame. Everything is made with a machine so it would'nt be hard making a special type of glass for the blind eye.
598581
Can you get new glasses? The ones in the picture make you look like what you really are.
722935
They're more or less obsolete now, having been replaced by varifocals.  Usually prescribed to old people suffering from myopia or hypermetropia and also presbyopia. The presbyopia means that the eye lens does not squish properly and therefore you can't see anything near to you. \n\nA bifocal lens has two parts. Usually the lower segment has a lesser power than the upper segment. You can read through the lower segment and look into the distance through the upper segment. You can only read for a short time because you have to sit with your head up, so you need reading glasses as well. \n\nMy experience is that varifocals are expensive and heavy unless you buy plastic lenses with a hard coating. If you buy plastic lenses without the coating, they soon get scratched until they look like frosted glass.
405331
I guess most females are about materialistic things because that's the way they were taught to be. If you look back on women's history we've been taught to like materialistic things so we can look pretty for men.
723922
for the same reason women wear make-up
742439
Society has changed. Women are much more attuned to the fact that they make up part of society. They are, generally, much less reliant on a man for their well being than in the past. In the days you seem to be speaking about women did not earn a wage so where dependent on the man. That is no longer the case and, that being so, will strike out on their own rather than put up with men having mistress because it was 'acceptable'. What you call 'rose coloured glasses' is a throw back to the days when it really was a man's world. Laws made by men, for men...........the time you are talking about .....marriages didn't work any more or less than they do now............what is different is that in those days women were expected to look after home and family and be totally reliant on the man, as wage earner. The difference is that women are less likely to 'grin and bear it' because her very existance depends on it..which back, even not that long ago, was the case.
733991
I guess so, but I don't really pay attention to that....people used to say things like that to me when I wore glasses so I wouldn't feel so weird, but who wants to look smart, really? I just want to be me, and wearing glasses wasn't me. I prefer my contacts so I can see everything clearly!\n\nI don't like wearing a watch simply because it gets in my way when I'm writing and typing ~ there are times when I should really rethink that!