Potter glasses were a symbol in the uk before potter, they were a symbol of being poor. That style of glasses were the basic FREE NHS glasses. So there was symbolism for potter having those glasses was that the Dursleys wouldn’t pay for Harry’s glasses. Things have changed in the last 30 years so there is a range of free frames available.
Spectacles are a healthcare thing? Glasses are pretty affordable and accessible to everyone. It cost like a week's worth of groceries for something yearly/2year
@@rynieryarom4277 yes glasses are healthcare. You get glasses if your eyes don’t work properly and insulin if your pancreas isn’t working properly. Healthcare isn’t just about not dying.
I remember talking to a Japanese person who lived in the US about how she would make a 3 hour trip to Seattle just so she could go to the Japanese glasses store there. Apparently she hard a hard time finding Western glasses that fit her nose. I recommend that Sabrina look into an Asian glasses retailer if she ever get the chance. It's possible they could be designed for her nose better.
Just getting those legs adjusted so they round behind the ears will already help immensely with keeping the glasses from falling of. I do agree though that for certain nose types it's very hard to find the right glasses. I have a western nose but my nose bridge is very narrow. Ever since I got my first pair of glasses every single person who sold glasses to me commented on that and how much that narrows down what kind of frames I can even buy. I also have a very narrow face so most frames also are just way too big in general.
@@DieAlteistwiederda Fortunately nowadays designers are "discovering" sizes. I have a small face (I am 150 cm, so...) and usually frames are way too big. A nearsighted fly. Now brands have the petite collection, an adult kind of frames in a smaller fit. As an optician I saw some XL frames as well. Fitting is not an optional.
There's a fantastic optitian in Toronto on Dundas near Spadina who has mostly glasses that fit small noses and who really take the time for excellent fit.
A summary of every Answer In Progress video: Sabrina finds a usually uninteresting subject and goes on a month-long journey to find answers to questions nobody ever asked, all while going utterly insane and making a widely entertaining video in the process.
Sometimes it goes a bit differentely: Sabrina pickes an iteresting subject - food - and then realises she doesn't understand it and lets Melissa take it over.
while watching this video i realized that how much satisfied I am with my glasses. they don't fall off that easily, they fit really well, they are not close to my eyes, not big, not small. the only problem is that they look ugly. but after watching this video, i feel really happy about my glasses.
I’m at the point where I’m considering paying for new custom lenses rather than buying a new (cheaper) pair when the time comes… I really love my current frames despite some of the paint chipping
I WATCHED CRASH COURSE KIDS IN SCHOOL!!!! I loved that channel, and I was wondering why you felt familiar AND THATS WHY! This is the best moment of my life
love the history lesson, and very glad i have been "blessed" with a big nose, my glasses stay where i put them and dont slip, unless im exercising and doing pushups, but lets be real who excercises, the couch is so comfortable to sleep on after work. only issue i used to have for several years was glasses always pinched my head, made my skin on the bones behind my ears hurt - so i would sometimes put the ear hook ontop of my ear instead of behind to give my skin behind the ear a break.
Phenomenal video. Your scenes, your timing, and definitely the education quality is so on point! PS love to see Toronto representation - I’ve been meaning to go to a sculpture supply store near Etobicoke and I think that’s where you went, so keeping in mind the tricky location.
I’ve worn glasses since first grade, and they are a life saver, but I really hate them falling down my nose! I hate the nose pads too, and have to go out of my way to find the ones that don’t have them. Thank you for the great video! (also love the part when you mistake the nose pads and say eye pads, and put the text on your *iPad* LOL)
Try and get them TIGHT around your skull. Mine do not fall down at all because they’re strongly held at the aides of my head. It’s comfortable like that, too!
Protip: Whenever you try on new glasses/frames, give em the ol "shake test" right there in the office, the optometrist can adjust them before you leave, or if that's insufficient you can select a new pair and shake em too. Make sure to pay attention both to if they fall off, and how far down your nose they slide, as glasses hanging by a thread are still basically worthless even if you aren't at risk of dropping them.
But how awesome that someone at some point realised that the reason some people see blurry is because of their eye shape and that it can be corrected with properly calibrated lenses. Yes glasses can be annoying sometimes, but THANK YOU to that person who worked that out and made their findings available for the common good, so now I can see clearly and thus still be a fully functional member of society!
I've been wearing glasses for 37 years, since I was 3. I've had some great frames and some horrible ones. For the last few years I wear plastic frames with metal temples. Plastic frames because my skin is a bit oily and so nose pads always slip down my nose. Always. Plus, I hate having to readjust them if something hits my glasses and pushes them back. That happened most when my son was about 2-3 years old and smacked me in the face all the time. But the metal temples is most important. Plastic temples can be adjusted to squeeze your head tighter to try to stay in place. But that can cause headaches, and also not work. Thin metal temples can be adjusted to hook onto your ears, and that's what I do. I have bent the ends of my temples to almost completely vertical, and around my ears. I mean, there are even frames made with hooks on the ends, and Sabrina even showed silicone hooks that can be added to glasses for the same purpose. Both of those solutions are not really attractive, IMO. But by bending my metal temples, I get the same effect and a much better look (as it is almost not noticeable). The last few pairs of glasses I have had have stuck to my face perfectly and not moved no matter what I've done. It may have taken more than 30 years to figure it out, but I finally did.
You are just so excited to share something passionately about a relatively minor or obscure amount of knowledge and the world NEEDS more people like you to keep the love of life and search for more alive.
I can't get over the fact that Sabrina decided to science the shit out of this before ever having been to an actual optician, who would've been able fix every problem she had basically for free :D Like, who would've thought that 40$ online sunglasses that aren't properly modified to accommodate your face suck. (Wore those for years before getting surgery, trust me, I know them when I see them). Informative and entertaining video though as always, keep it up =)
Yes lol, when they asked "why can't you get custom glasses" I was thrown because, well, you can, and most opticians will take face measurements when you buy them. Obvs this has cost/insurance barriers that aren't affordable for everyone which is its own can of worms but it def seems to explain why I don't think I've ever had glasses with the problems Sabrina described at the beginning
@@Flameclaw123 that's interesting because where (and when) I grew up, these adjustments were always included in the free range of services an optician provides. Sure, basically all glasses were more expensive than online, but there were always free frame options and if you didn't get too fancy with the glasses, they would cost you like 100€ and were even subsidized, if not completely covered by insurance up until you're 18 years old.
@@Flameclaw123 idk where you're at but that's never been my experience. Most they'll do is put it on me and tighten the nose bridge based on my preference (only if the glasses has nose pads) or the legs. That's all they do in my experience.
Im impressed with how you manage to make a video like its a netflix explained episode, and i love the content, exactly the type of thing i would do and that i actually wish i would do,mytype of RU-vid content
The distance from my face/nose to the backs of my ears has always been really small in comparison to people. When I did musical theatre, tech ops would have to tape my over-the-ear microphone a certain way so it didn’t fall off. For glasses I’ve always gotten ones with more malleable temples / glasses arms. The techs (idk what kind of eye specialist ls they are) at Costco would bend them a heck ton to fit my face and not let them fall down. They’d have to give me a different glasses case bc they wouldn’t fit in the original 😂 Do they still slide down sometimes? Yes but they fit better Additional note: there are different sizes to glasses. Including temple / glasses arm length, nose piece width, etc. that impact how they sit on your face and how well they stay on your face
As a tech op, yours us a problem with a solution, the annoying ones have a really long distnace between mouth and ear and the mic doesnt reach close enough to pick up their voice. Head mics have adjustable parts but clearly they're are people with features outside the parameters including you :)
@@KieraLiane unfortunately my old school isn’t a big theatre school so it didn’t have enough money for head mics but it’s def way better tech to accommodate for different face shapes and sizes
Brilliant video on so many levels, though I think there's something you didn't fully address which is the industrial revolution mass producing rather than customising to each individual. I mean, the history you found suggests maybe there never really was a fully customised option akin to with clothing since so many people hid their glasses and embraced them falling off etc. lol but I think a key part of how glasses are so ill-fitting is because they don't cater to the full diversity of people by having such limited, mass-produced options. I'm tall and have a larger face plus I generally prefer the look of larger, more rounded lenses, so I have very limited options, like I do in clothing stores being a plus-sized person. Anyway, love the video; so fascinating and fun and charming. I hadn't watched your videos in years so it's fun to see you again and I'm really enjoying the stuff I've seen so far, thank you for sharing!
Where did you get your glasses? Since i was a kid, i bought mine at a store with opticians, measuring stuff, recommending shapes, checking for stuff that could annoy me, bending the frames etc. Every time i tried at least 10-20 pairs until i selected a perfect fit. I can't image how i could even have a pair that is not a perfect fit. (That's also the reason why i would never buy glasses online)
This is such a well made video and such a good title, literally have chosen not to watch this video for months and regret that decision, this is genuinely a really good video
I got an elastic loop that I put through my braided hair to keep my glasses on my face while doing gymnastics. I used to look it over and give the coach my glasses and do it without being able to see. Who'd've thought that if you can see what you're doimg, you can do it better.
The main thing I got out of this video: I forgot to put on my glasses the last few days and that's why my eye muscles are twitching, so I should be wearing these.
When they were rambling off the hypothesises at the beginning? I just KNEW uninformed buyer would be a winner. I just didn't realize how uninformed 😂 really fun video! Your makeshift frames had potential!
Optician here! A good optician will help you find a frame that functions well with a good fit along with making sure it is a frame you love! It is a delicate balance, but very possible! If your optician is only pulling out $300 designer frames that don't fit well, maybe it is time to find a new optician. When considering fit and function, there are a few things that us opticians take into consideration. One thing is the shape, size, and features of your face. This helps us determine what shape (fashion) would look good along with being compatible with your prescription (function: high rx, smaller lens size). This can also help us determine what material and style frame would work best (i.e. plastic, wire w/nose pads, ect.). Another thing we take into consideration is the different measurements of both the frame and your eyes. First, we have what we call an A measurement. An A measurement is the horizontal length of one lens. Then we have the B measurement, which is the vertical height of the lens. We also have the DBL measurement, which is the horizontal length of the bridge or Distance Between Lenses. Then one other measurement we take into consideration is the temple length. / Now regarding your eyes, there are a few different measurements to take into consideration as well. Your PD (Pupillary Distance) is the distance between your pupils and is a determining factor in what options (frame and lenses) will work best. It is ideal for one's PD to be close to the frame PD, which is the frame's A measurement and DBL measurement added together (i.e. 54-16 / A=54, DBL=16 / Frame PD (70) = 54 +16). The difference between the Frame PD and a person's PD is called decentration and can limit a high rx person to a smaller frame. Another measurement we take is the OC Height (Ocular Center) or Segment Height for multifocal's (bifocals, trifocals, progressive lenses, ect.). This measurement corresponds with the B measurement centering the rx vertically in line with your pupils (or beneath for lined bifocal seg heights). Now with all of that being said, each one of these things can affect the other, which is why one needs a good optician to weigh the balance between everything. If someone with a high - rx is adamant about getting a frame that has a larger lens size (A and B) and sits just a tad bit too close to the eyes and rests on the person's cheek, the optician should pre-adjust with pantoscopic tilt (which will add a tilt to the lens to bring it away from the top part of the eye) while also adjusting the nose-pads for the frame to sit off the cheek or any other part of the face that is not the nose pads or bridge touching the nose. From there the optician should measure the OC and recommend a higher index material that would be thinner to compensate for the thicker edges that will result in the bigger lens size. That is just a brief example, minus some details, of the things a good optician would consider so a customer doesn't end up with a poor fitting frame with super thick lenses and a crazy amount of money down the drain.
I wish that there was more variation in glasses styles… I prefer the look of rectangular wire-frame glasses. Unfortunately, I like to wear saddle bridge glasses, because nose pads are a bad fit for my oily nose. And saddle bridge glasses are almost entirely thick plastic frames, or occasionally circular wire frames. I have only found ONE model of rectangular wire-frame glasses - the first pair I got when I made the switch to saddle bridge - which they no longer have around here. I did recently find the same pair online, so next time I go in for new glasses, I’m thinking of asking if they can order that frame for me… but even if that does work, I still wish that my options for the frame type, style, and fit that I like wasn’t limited to a single choice. Especially considering how many variations of thick plastic rectangular frames I sort through each time finding the least worst one.
Optician here: If you haven't already, take the frames back in and ask for them to be adjusted. Increasing pantoscopic tilt usually fixes this problem but it can't be done on every frame. Option 2: change to a better fitting frame.
A short term option might be to curl your upper eyelashes so they point up more than out-cheaper than a new pair if the current pair is fine in every other way.
I didn't need glasses until my late 40s (just a few years ago), and wow do they suck. Can't keep them on my nose, can't keep them clean, and haven't yet got a pair that comes close to restoring the vision I used to have.
I find it funny that it took Sabrina so long to take out the lenses off her glasses because my sister's just fall off whenever she sneezes too hard. Yes, you read that right.
This was fascinating. My previous pair of glasses looked so cool, I loved them except that the lenses touched my eyes! My eye lashes, mostly, which are often kinda gunky, so the result was having to wash my lenses many many many times a day. The new frames work better for that, but don't look quite as cool. And tbh, I love the look of your homemade glasses! In that "so horrifying I can't look away" sense.
over 45 years of wearing these crap things and my two biggest bugs are, second as you say the nose pads and the slipping, (i brought a big set from amazon and honestly they the best thing i have ever brought that i forget about), however my biggest pain in the back side with glasses "How the heck do i need to clean them 5 gazillion times a day?" its like you clean them and leave a massive static field on them so all the dust heads straight at you. i remember one job working in a steam room where we would all sweat like mad that my glasses went rusty? i had only had them a few weeks so returned them to find the same thing happened again, (salty sweat washed off the coating and the metal rusted leaving me with rusty ears lol) so i went for some plastic arm glasses and they melted enough to deform in one night shift, so for a good few years i had heat shrink tubing on the arms of my glasses, cool to be honest as work picked up the glasses bill.
I like so much when you make something amusing in your videos so I can laugh for 3 minutes, real laugh I mean 😂 My glasses don't feet really well because my nose is not centered. Probably the metalic frame would be better but i don't like it. Also, as i don't have long hair the behind-ear things would just not work for me. So for now i just appreciate the invension of lenses and the economics mechanisms that make them pretty cheap 😅
I remember in the eigthies lenses were made of, well, glass. Dense material with a low refraction rate. My father and I both had around -6 to -7 and our noses were always red, chafed, and irritated. The thick lenses put a lot of weigth on the skin. Then around the nineties better materials became available and lens thickness and weight went down drastically. And fashionale frames became available, I mean a frame can be trendy but if it can't support the heavy lenses your options are still limited. I still have pretty bad eyesight but my glasses weigh only a fraction of what they used to. Nowadays it doesn't really matter anymore how bad your eyes are.
I'm on my second consistent binge of your videos, and I notice some small line in each video that is oddly profound to me. In this video, the line was "I think I have a story to tell you."
I'm a special fx artist in Toronto, and watching you go to Sculpture Supply (my favourite place in the whole world) and do a life cast with no professional supervision was both enthralling and terrifying.
I've been wondering why the nose pads on glasses just aren't textured rather than smooth, surely that would result in less sliding off. The little temple attachments look great though, perhaps something to invest in.
for us, in germany it is common practice to get your glasses adjusted to your face shape for free, and if they are bent for some reason you can go into any store and get them rebend to the desired shape. I have never had glasses that don't fit me. never the less realy interesting video
When I get new glasses I try them on at the shop and they adjust the nose pads and the end of the temples so my glasses fit. And for the thing when my eyelashes start to touch the glasses, I just cut my eyelashes.
As an engineer I approve going crazy and overcomplicating a solution, only to THEN find out that there was a simple solution that could have been done in 5 minutes. Its the curse of being able to make stuff. When you see a problem the first instinct is to make something better, not just buying it
My experience is that if you go to a high street chain, the staff just want you to BOGOF and have no desire to make sure you buy glasses that fit. They do come in different sizes - indicated on the temples. Problem is, I guess, they aren't paid enough to give a damn.
Hey! just my opinion but each of you all had the same type of glasses. maybe you should have tried asking more people. Personally I have style that works for me and I absolutely despite glasses with the nose things you three have. I like the plastic frames. some come with different shapes for the continuous bridge and I feel are easier to find the right fit.
Watching this video I'm lucky I'd never had issues with my glasses, my nose may be the perfect shape for glasses. As long as they're not too round, then they touch my cheeks.
Cool cool. But did you consider the point in the lenses where you are supposed to look through?If not your vision might be slightly blurrier than it could be.
"So i decided to make my own frame" Me: oh cool she's gonna 3d print them? "I'm gonna use this metal wire" Me, who has many hours of experience trying to use metal wire for diy: ......oh god
God Bless that Unearned Confidence. Admittedly, she ended up with some sturdy-looking frames! With as many hours as I've put into jewelry, DIY, and crafting with wires... I gotta salute those results, even if the curves weren't as smooth as she dreamed.
Dunning-Kruger I thought. And heard some inexplicit acknowledgement of. But I hate people who bring up Dunning-Kruger! It's frequently obnoxious anyway. And maybe a jeweller collaboration is a future video, because I thought about that as well. And I also thought about Inuit snow goggles, how designer's loved to appropriate them but it's being reclaimed. But I love this video and as mentioned this is the algorithm-friendly money-making view-raking video concept. And DIY vibe could become cool. It's got post-apocalyptic steampunk/cottage-core/goblin-core vibes.
Man I always think “they’re gonna run out of questions at some point right?” And then they come up with questions I didn’t know I had and now am too invested in
Even if you take all questions that have ever been asked throughout history, add them up, and multiply them by the numbers of possible answers to those questions, you are still don’t know anything near a significant percentage of All The Information There Is To know. Like UUIDs, it’s technically possible to reach the limit but it’s functionally impossible.
I know that feeling and in 2013 & 2014 I got into surgery where I got artificial lenses in my eyes. As I'm always been myopic and I'm an electrician it was decided that I get -1 to both eyes. I've never seen this well and I still wonder when I walk outside how far I can see clearly and read signs. This day & age is blessing to us who live coutries that take care of their citizens.
OKAY SO. After I got LASIK, my right eye ended up weakening a fair bit, enough that it was kind of annoying while driving. I ended up getting a prescription monocle and I wore the heck out of it. I was surprised how well it stayed in place after I got the fit right. The other nice part is that I have ptosis (droopy eyelid) in my right eye. With the monocle in place, it felt weird for the first month, like I was forcing my eye open further, but just a little. That might have been due to the orbicularis oculi muscle in that eye just being smaller or tighter than my other eye (I could rotate the monocle 180° and fit it in my left eye, which wasn't quite the right fit for lens placement but the monocle frame was essentially the same for this style, which had protruding wire supports extending from the lens frame along the top and bottom of the monocle, to kind of latch onto the flesh over the bones above and below the eye socket). But when I was wearing it, both of my eyes finally looked like they were open the same amount! Plus, all of my patients (I'm a nurse) could just refer to me as "that guy with the monocle."
Ngl, I feel incredibly blessed by the fact that I've never had any vision problems and I hope I don't have any issues later in life (at least not in the sense of my eyesight being gone); but man. Being "The guy with the monocle" sounds so fun. Always wanted an excuse to be that guy
@@akiraishin7141you know my right eye is like -7 so my eye doctor woman(?) Said that i'll get eyedrops or something might tear when i get older. Not looking forward to that but i already have a plan for like, getting an eyepatch or something cool like that. (Could i get an eyepatch AND a monocle? :o)
In such a case, wouldn't the normal procedure be to wear normal glasses, with one lens with the appropriate strength and the other completely without strength?
when i was a kid my ophthalmologist would study my face for a minute and then show me pairs of glasses that would work with my face shape and then (for certain kinds of frames only, probably) heat the frame to make small adjustments if necessary and i guess i didn't realize she was doing the lord's work
@@peachymunmagenta my local eye doctor growing up had an MD and was certified as an ophthalmologist. he's retired now but i refer to him as an ophthalmologist because he had attained that certification just as i refer to my college instructors as professor x or dr y and not just mrs z as i would for any other teacher. which maybe is incorrect to do 🤷🏽♀️
We think we invented brutal sarcasm in the modern day and age, but that quote proves that we have rediscovered but a fraction of what our ancestors knew.
@@purplecat4977 Listen. You can tell whoever wrote that was a smart ass, the queen of come backs. She said they served to help her collect her thoughts LMAO
Having grown up as an optometrist"s kid, my first reaction was “just schedule yourself a glasses fitting, girl!!” ...But there's a reason videos of RU-vidrs doing stuff the hard way are popular: it's a great way to learn things. So thank you for showing your little journey here. You actually taught this optometrist's kid a thing or two. ❤️ I'm going to take some of your advice, because it beats having to schedule a fit adjustment every time I accidentally lean on my frames in bed.
accidentally leaning on ur frames is SO REAL 😭😭 also tb to that time in primary school when my teacher threw a ball at me in pe and it hit me in the face and deformed my glasses
....they do fittings? I'm usually left to wander stores for hours guessing about what looks decent and fits my fat head before picking almost at random and being stuck with my choice for a couple years.
