seeking excellent Pittsburgh optician

[cellio]

Dear Brain Trust,

When it comes to eyeglasses I have complicated, finicky needs. I had an excellent optician who consistently met those needs -- but note that "had"; the place is no longer in business and the optician have moved out of state. It's now time to get new glasses, so I'm looking for recommendations.

The optician I'm looking for will be very precise about measuring, bifocal placement, the optical properties of different frame shapes, and so forth. This optician will also work with me for as long as it takes; last time we spent over an hour putting together the order. I am looking for -- and expect to pay for -- a high-end professional.

Ideally this optician either is within several miles of Squirrel Hill or has generous evening or Sunday hours. (Saturday hours do not help.) But for the right optician, if I have to go to Wexford during the work day (shudder) I'll do that. I'd just rather not.

I have a prescription already; I don't need an exam or a refraction. I just need somebody to make my glasses to exacting standards.

Any recommendations?

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Re: suggestion about eyeglasses

[cellio]

How do you make sure they fit my face, that the bifocals are in exactly the right place given my interpulilary distance (which I can't measure myself) and whatever other factors affect that, that the frames I can't try on before buying will be a good match, etc? How do people shop for glasses online when they can't try things out?

Re: suggestion about eyeglasses

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

Yeaaahh, this seems like it would work if you wanted a copy of your existing glasses (and had all the numbers (and the existing glasses are relatively new because apparently the frame companies cycle through designs at a seriously alarming rate--I've never been able to get the same frames twice in a row, even from the same shop)), but not so well for new ones unless the prescription was really simple.

They sell pre-made reading glasses in drugstores though, so impersonal production must work for somebody.

Alas, I can't recommend anyone—my prescription isn't nearly as finicky as yours.