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It has come to this: Halfway through life, I must don glasses.
Please give me your best, least obvious or highest benefit-cost-ratio tips and advice for the newly bespectacled.
Edit: Context: Apparently I'm nearsighted and have Astigmatism. I already got a first pair of glasses; plastic lenses in a very simple frame. Not the sturdiest (I wanted it to be fairly light), but not exactly wireframe either. Cost me around 250€. My parents regularly shell out 1000€-2500€ for glasses, so this seemed an acceptable price. No extra features though.
Learn how sensitive you are to chromatic aberration. The last time I updated my prescription, they upsold me to high-index lenses, which are thinner and lighter than regular CR-39 and don't gain any yellow tint from UV exposure, but I simply couldn't wear them at all due to their low Abbe number. Everything not dead ahead of me had colored outlines. I went back and demanded CR-39 lenses and a partial refund.
To add to @SubstantialFrivolity's answer, consider photochromic sunglasses. I own a pair of regular prescription sunglasses because I hate the look of photochromic lenses, but it's quite annoying when you have to venture indoors:
Oh, and get an extra pair to keep in your glovebox.
One note on the photochromic lens suggestion: do not try to use these as your only pair of glasses (like I did). If you're in a situation where you need to be in photos outside, they will darken (which may or may not be an issue for the specific photo, I suppose). Blue light filter will also show up in photos (your glasses will have a blue tint to them). I wound up getting a new pair of plain clear lenses for my wedding just so that I would look normal in the wedding photos.
They also don't work in the car, which is one of my big use cases for sunglasses. It's a bummer.
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