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Wednesday Wish: See Concept reading glasses

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gold See Concept reading glasses

This is the 100th Wednesday Wish so we’ve decided to pension off the series – after all, there are only so many things one can wish for! These See Concept reading glasses are a fairly long-standing wish list entry.

Adelle looking through a pair of See Concept reading glasses

Last October, we went to Gimbals Restaurant in Sowerby Bridge to celebrate a friend’s birthday. I couldn’t read the menu because I forgot to put my reading glasses in my handbag before I left home. But I needn’t have feared, the restaurant had a few of these fantastic reading glasses on stands for just that very dilemma!

Before we left the restaurant that night, I made a mental note to remember the name of the company that made them so I could get myself a pair for my bedside table. Needless to say I’d forgotten it before we got home! I’ve done countless Google searches for “glasses on a chain”, “reading glasses on stand”, “glasses with handle” but to no avail, I couldn’t track them down.

Last week Fab had a “Just for Fun” sale and eureka, there they were! They’re available in lots of colours but I think I’ll plump for a luxe gold pair!

Wednesday Wish: Roope Vintage glasses

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selection of Roope Vintage tortoise rimmed glasses
from top: Retro 60s Honey Comb – £97 | Vintage 60s Lola Tortoiseshell – £77 | Retro 90s Carven – £57 | Retro 80s Charmant 4659 – £117

Well folks – I’ve known my days were numbered for a while now. I’ve been squinting at the screen of my iPhone and MacBook for longer than I care to admit. The eye test I had last week just sealed the fate I knew was immanent – I need glasses!

The people in Boots the Chemist were lovely – they didn’t give me the hard sell or anything. It’s just that, being an eyeglasses virgin, I had no idea where to go to find stylish frames. I’m a regular wearer of sunglasses (despite living in the perpetually grey north of England) and know what suits my face and what doesn’t. Again, no offence to Boots, but they had rack upon rack of what seemed to me to be near identical, rectangular, tiny framed examples. I’d been there over an hour, it was getting late, my mind was boggled, I just needed to choose something – I left the shop having chosen the drabbest, most nondescript, largest-framed specs they had.

Later that evening I rang my optically challenged best friend Duncan and told him about my experience. He made a few jokes about me looking like Deirdre Barlow and the large afro-wearing one from Althea & Donna… then he told me about Roope Vintage – WHY COULDN’T HE HAVE MENTIONED THEM BEFORE?!

I’ve chosen my top four – which are your favourites?

Drink up!

We were sorting boxes of future stock today. It’s amazing how many part sets and oddments we came across… cutlery, tea & coffee sets and lots of drinking glasses.

They’re mainly transfer printed tumblers for water, fruit juice, milk etc.

They date from the 1950s to the 1970s…

….and there are some fantastic designs amongst them – atomic influence, stylised figures, geometric patterns and flower power.

We’ll have to be patient to complete sets of the same design – although we also like the idea of putting some ‘mix & match’ sets together. The various shapes, colours & patterns look great together on a shelf.

Here are a few of the sets that have passed through the shop…

…and some that are currently for sale.

We’ve been concentrating on tumblers in this post – but as we’re talking glasses, we’ll just show you this beauty!

Having had a spate of broken wine glasses of late, we were very pleased to come across a few of these fantastic, futuristic 60s glasses recently – with a lovely bubble detail in the stem. They’re very fragile, but we’ll try to be more careful in future!!