Sun Reader

Remember last summer when I bemoaned the dorkiness of wearing sunglasses on top of my reading glasses at the pool? I thought I'd solved the problem—and cheaply, to boot!—when I was rummaging around for regular reading glasses in the $1 section at Target and fished out some +1.50 sunglasses. Alas, I didn't discover until I got home that they were regular sunglasses with a tiny bifocal section of magnifier. They were positively dizzying to look through. Same thing happened at CVS (although this time I had the sense to check before purchasing), so I began to think that I was out of luck. After a couple of days at the pool wearing both pairs of glasses again, though, I decided to look around online. My persistence paid off: The unfortunately named Boomers in the Know has a wide selection of decent-looking reading sunglasses in both the bifocal and regular versions. I got two pairs, and they just arrived. Yippee. Now I can go back to being dorky for all those other reasons, just not for wearing sunglasses on top of reading glasses.

Comments

[B.O.B.(bob)]

Please make sure they block UV (A and B). If not you can actually do more damage to your eyes by wearing them than not (by keeping your pupils dialated and opening up your eyes to more UV). Often cheaper sunglasses only block one type of UV (A I think). Better yet splurge on some nice prescription sunglasses!

[Karen]

You sound like me -- I'm always giving that speech to people! Yes, these do filter both types of UV rays. They're just magnifiers, which I wear on top of my contact lenses, so it's not really a prescription.