National Health Specs! - Page 2

grannyclaret · 06-04-2006, 13:03

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Originally Posted by fireman

i HAD AN uNCLE WHO IS DEAD NOW BLESS HIM. He always wore NHS specs and they were nice ones.He used to tell me the trick is to insist on seeing the FULL range of NHS frames . Not just the awful ones that will make you pay for the overpriced private ones that they want to sell you.

thats awfal...i diddent wear glassesas a kid ,but i thought they only had the brown,pink and blue...what a cheek ,if they had nice ones too.

accymel · 06-04-2006, 13:51

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Originally Posted by lettie

Ooooh, the diarrhoea brown ones were the pits.... My mate had those when we were kids.

I know

we could of been the diarrhoea coloured glasses twins, what made mine worse was they clashed with my light brown hair too

pendy · 06-04-2006, 15:51

I was lucky, I was told I needed glasses at the age of about 11, and my mother stumped up for a pair of pink pearly frames, a bit winged, not quite Edna Everage. I seem to remember being rather proud of them, but eventually got fed up with specs all the time and switched to lenses (gas permeable, used to sleep in them, the lot). Having had bilateral cataracts, when they removed the cataracts they inserted corrective lenses into my eye, so I have in essence contact lenses INSIDE my eye. Absolutely brilliant - except that I have to wear glasses for reading. TIP: get reading glasses prescription from optician, if it's 2.5 or less, nip down to the pound shop and buy them there!

lindsay ormerod · 06-04-2006, 18:12

My daughter (10) has just had her first eye test yesterday and needed the smallest prescription possible! She chose her frames and 10 mins later we went back for the completed glasses;extremely light weight,very chic and best of all totally free! I am full of praise for Specsavers in Accy;they were quick,efficient and polite.The service was truly exceptional,I have been a customer there for years and am happy to recommend them.

West Ender · 06-04-2006, 20:46

I was very lucky because my dad was an optician and he also made perspex spectacle frames. I started wearing glasses, for distance, at the age of 13 and this was a great opportunity for dad to make frames for the younger teenager and I used to "model" them. I'd have a new pair about once a month and they were every style and colour (Edna Everidge style was very IN). I remember a teacher at Paddock House saying to me, one day, "Must you wear bright green glasses, dear?" By the time I was 16 I settled for square black ones like Nana Mouskouri.

The funny thing was that by the late 1960s the round metal frames that the NHS had supplied were all the rage, thanks to John Lennon, only by then they cost a fortune 'cause the NHS didn't do that style any more.

ANNE · 06-04-2006, 23:48

I had to wear N.H.S. glasses when I was a kid. They were awful how I hated them.
Was always loosing them, accidentally on purpose. I thought they only did pink,blue or brown.

junetta · 07-04-2006, 03:13

It has been really interesting reading all your comments. There was I thinking that I was the only kid on the block suffering with patches and National Health specs. It's strange how your memory plays tricks with you.

Anyway, hopefully, I've attached a photo of young Charlotte, complete with her designer 'Barbie' glasses..........which cost her mum a fortune. She's a lovely kid.

Sara · 07-04-2006, 19:45

My daughter wore NHS glasses when she was five, 10 years ago, and time they were really trendy. We had quite a lot of styles to choose from. She wore them religiously, which now as meant she doesn't need glasses anymore.

Sara · 07-04-2006, 19:51

My daughter wore NHS glasses when she was five, 10 years ago, and time they were really trendy. We had quite a lot of styles to choose from. She wore them religiously, which now as meant she doesn't need glasses anymore.

West Ender · 07-04-2006, 20:44

That's a lovely picture, Junetta. It just goes to show kids can look very attractive in glasses. They suit her.

grannyclaret · 07-04-2006, 21:53

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Originally Posted by junetta

It has been really interesting reading all your comments. There was I thinking that I was the only kid on the block suffering with patches and National Health specs. It's strange how your memory plays tricks with you.

Anyway, hopefully, I've attached a photo of young Charlotte, complete with her designer 'Barbie' glasses..........which cost her mum a fortune. She's a lovely kid.

Oh Charlotte ,you look real cute.... they are smashing glasses

katex · 07-04-2006, 22:02

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Originally Posted by grannyclaret

Oh Charlotte ,you look real cute.... they are smashing glasses

Here, here, >> brings out the colour of her eyes, which seem to be green .. she's gorgeous. Not the same stigma these days with glasses, almost a fashion accessory, aren't they ? 'Speccy 4-eyes'' now long gone.