All About Frames From NZ's Favourite Online Prescription Glasses Shop

As New Zealand’s leading supplier of prescription glasses, EzyGlasses offers a fantastic range of quality eyewear, making buying cheap glasses online easy, cost effective and fun! This month we take a brief look at what the difference is between different types and materials that glasses frames are made of, which is explained in detail on the EzyGlasses website at http://www.ezyglasses.co.nz .

First up, full rim frames are the most robust and easiest frames for glasses. They are the easiest to fit lenses into and generally hold the lenses the best. For metal full rim frames the process is a little different. The frames have a tiny screw that holds the part of the frames that surrounds the lenses together. Usually just under the part where the arm joins the front piece of the glasses. This is unscrewed, the frames are opened up, the lenses fitted in, the screw replaced and hey presto! Anyone could do it.

Semi Rim are glasses that only have half of the frame surrounding the lens. To hold the lenses in properly, the lenses actually have a groove cut into them and a thin piece of nylon holds the lenses tightly against the rest of the frame. Similarly, rimless glasses are typically the most fragile and difficult to fit lenses into and are not recommended for environments where they may get knocked around a bit.

Plastic frames are the cheapest to produce. All plastic frames are injection moulded by a machine that heats the plastic until it's molten then squirts it into a precise mould which when the plastic has cooled again, bingo you've got a frame component produced - very cheaply. That’s the good side of plastic frames. The not-so-good side is that plastic frames have a tendency (compared to the similar material acetate) to lose shape over time.

Acetate is a nylon-based plastic that is strong, lightweight and flexible. It is also hypoallergenic. Because of the extra work involved, and also the extra colour possibilities, acetate is always used for more expensive eyewear brands. It retains its shape and colour for longer than plastic, but is more expensive.

EzyGlasses offer a 365 Days 100% Satisfaction Guarantee which means that customers can purchase their glasses and have 365 days to decide whether they like them or not. If they decide, for any reason whatsoever, that they don’t, they can return them for a full refund! Reasons could include not fitting properly, wrong colour, wrong lenses, faulty/inferior product. EzyGlasses are so confident of their products that all the risk is on them.