Eyewear for Football Fans

Football fans can now keep their eye on the ball through a pair of designer glasses from their own team.

SelectSpecs.com and SelectSpecs Opticians in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent are now looking out for our football mad customers (or soccer supporters if you're from across the pond) by stocking officially licensed glasses and sunglasses for the top UK Premier League teams.

When it comes to football merchandise almost everything has been branded but this is the first time supporters have been able to buy designer prescription glasses and...

Top 3 Best Selling Prescription Glasses for Winter 2012-2013

In our last post – Battle of the Brands, we reported a new challenger to our list of Best Selling Brands.  The battle has really heated up between the top two – Ray-Ban and Oakley.

In this post we break it down even further to show you our Top 3 Best Selling Prescription Glasses for Winter 2012-2013.

1. Ray-Ban RX5184

The New Wayfarer by Ray-Ban is still "The Daddy".  It's been our best selling frame since the day the first man walked...

Battle of the Brands – Ray-Ban Vs. Oakley (Winter 12/13)

We've been looking over our sales figures and have noticed an interesting trend over the course of the Winter, which actually hit a peak in February.  Traditionally, Ray-Ban has always been our best selling designer brand, but over the Winter the gap between Ray-Ban in first place and our second place brand was beginning to close right up.

Towards the end of the month of February for first time ever, Ray-Ban was actually pushed down into second place as our best selling brand.  But who could overpower the...

New Brand – Salvatore Ferragamo

SelectSpecs are proud to announce that we are now licensed to sell Salvatore Ferragamo Eyewear.  The luxury Italian brand established in the 1920's fits perfectly in line with some of our existing mid to top-end designer brands such as Roberto Cavalli, Dior, Valentino or Chopard.

As you can see in the image above – Salvatore Ferragamo prescription eyewear is a stunning new addition to our high-street optical store in Westgate-on-Sea.

Salvatore Ferragamo offers a smashing variety of plastic or...

The Super Sci-Fi Future of Eyewear

According to CBS News there are currently more than 149 million adults who wear eyeglasses. Most non-eyeglass wearers assume that this means people usually have one pair of prescription glasses, but this isn't necessarily so. Actually, as many as 50 million people needing prescriptive eyewear carry multiple pairs of glasses: one for reading, another for driving, for sun protection and still another for performing everyday tasks.

Usually this need for multiple eyewear prescriptions is the result of a condition known as presbyopia, which occurs to people...

SelectSpecs.com Glasses of the Year Award – Oakley Crosslink

SelectSpecs.com are proud to announce the Oakley Crosslink as our choice for the inaugural SelectSpecs.com Glasses of the Year Award.

2012 was a fantastic year for innovation in the eyewear sector, but we selected this frame as our winning glasses of the last 12 months for a number of reasons.

The Oakley Crosslink is the first optical frame produced by Oakley to fit into their Active category – ideal for those with a demanding and active lifestyle, these prescription glasses are great for people who...

Diesel’s New Denimize Collection with Denim Temples

Diesel are bringing 35 years of Denim experience to their new Diesel Denimize Collection.

Inspired by the cult casualwear brand's denim expertise, the new range of Diesel Denimze Eyewear incorporates unique Denim inserts into the frame construction.

But this is no ordinary Denim… The fabric is sourced in Europe and each insert is selected from the richest, most tactile section of the fabric before being manually inserted into the temples.  The result is that each pair of glasses is subtly different, just as each pair of jeans...