Emma 312

The third pair ordered in mid November as a candidate for my partner Nel. Her choice was inspired by one of her daughters who posed for me in a purple version of the frame during her first photo shoot in the summer of 2015 (Mirjam 069 - 074). Six months later, Mirjam complained about her eyesight at long distance and went to an optician who decided that her myopia was too minimal for getting glasses. This annoyed her as she had a similar experience with another optician six years before after noticing a problem with driving a car at night. On that occasion she gave me a slip of paper from the machine in the shop and I did an eye test with her while Nel drove the car at night. Mirjam tried some Zenni glasses from my collection and I ordered a pair with a correction of -0.50 for night driving (L: -0.75; c-0.25 axis 179 / R: -0.50; c-0.50 axis 156). However, she always kept forgetting about the glasses and nothing was heard about car driving anymore.

After hearing about the new complaints last winter, I jumped in again and we did a test in daylight with a number of glasses from my collection. It turned out that a lovely vintage pair by Pro Design (Mirjam 011 - 013) had the perfect prescription for her.  So she got that pair on loan and I ordered the purple Zenni glasses in the same prescription (L: -0.75 / R: -0.50) and with her PD. She liked these glasses initially but again, she gradually became rather forgetful about them. Probably because the correction was so mild that she barely noticed the difference.

Last month, Mirjam almost had a serious accident, driving a car at night without her glasses on. This was a real wake up call for her. She said that her glasses seemed too weak, so we did yet another eye test in full daylight with glasses from my collection. A pair by Stepper turned out to be perfect and it was great to hear her excited reactions about the difference. She also said she never realized that her eyes had become that bad and the thought of becoming really dependent on glasses worried her. So I gave her the Stepper glasses (L: -1.50 / R: -1.25) on loan. Mirjam then decided to go to yet another optician for an eye test. This time the optician did a full eye test with her and it turned out that she definitely needed glasses. She did not get the receipt yet but she told me that the result was L -1.25 / R: -1.00 with a cylinder of -0.25. If that is correct, the test with the Stepper glasses was a good experiment.

Anyway, Nel often saw Mirjam in the purple Zenni glasses and this inspired her to check the green version of the frame. When the glasses arrived, Nel gave them a try but she did not quite like the green colour so the glasses went back into my collection. Two weeks later, Emma was the first model to pose in them.