Eyewear Style Trends 2018
Posted: February 9, 2018 Filed under: tc fit | Tags: 2018 fashion, asian, asian fit, eyewear, Fashion, fit, Style, style trends, tc fit Leave a commentEyewear is just like any fashion industry. Even though your glasses are an integral part of your medial well-being, they are still a fashion statement that you wear every day. Just like any other fashion industry, there are fashion trends for each year. Here are our top 5 eyewear trends of 2018!
Thin Acetate
Thin is in! While big statement pieces are on their way out the door for this year, more and more people are looking for thin, sleek frames that are light and stylish. This style is perfect for everyday wear to work, class, or anything you have planned for the day. Men tend to stick to thin frames with muted colors, while women have shown to go towards lighter hues and light crystal clear frames. TC Fit Frames that fit this style: Frankfurt, Boston, Istanbul.
Round Lenses
Dark rimmed glasses were very popular in 2017, and continue to be the look d’jour. However, more and more consumers are going back to the retro round lens that was popular in the 80’s and 90’s. Frames donning this style have been popular for a while now, but coupled with thin acetate, round lenses are making another pass this year as a must-have trend. TC Fit Frames that fit this style: Korea, Brazil.
Retro
Retro styling is maintaining its top-seller position as both men and women are drawn to the timeless look. Other style trends that dominated the 70’s and 80’s are coming back as well, with styles adapting to the retro fashion sensation. Trends that are currently prominent in eyewear fashion are those that are coupled with light metal and acetate as well as aviators and cat eye frames. TC Fit Frames that fit this style: Colombia, Fiji, Korea.
Crystal Clear
While some consumers still like their sunglasses with dark, thick acetate, some are being drawn to crystal clear frames with light, subtle pops of color. While this fits into the retro trend, it is worth noting that these colors are making a big impact in 2018. Fashionable lines are starting to make clear frames in almost any size and shape, with light pink, blue and green hues being the most prevalent. TC Fit Frames that fit this style: Boston, Osaka, Korea.
Blue Light Blockers
While people are spending more and more time on computers, both for business and recreation, the sales of blue light blocking lenses are sky-rocketing. Companies like Pixel and Felix Gray that specialize in only blue light blocking frames are very much in demand. It’s well known that looking at screens all day can start to cause eye strain and headaches from harmful blue light rays, so it’s no question why people are searching for blue light blocking lenses left and right. Here at TC Fit, we want to offer fit and style while also protecting your eye sight. TC Fit Frames that fit this style: All of them! Any TC Fit frame can be custom fitted with blue light blocking lenses!
The key to staying in style is knowing what’s trending. Eyewear fashion is constantly changing, adding more and more styles to choose from each year. With spring just around the corner, now is the perfect time to experiment with your look and try out some new trends and TC Fit has you covered. This season, whether you go for crystal clear with a pop of color or thin tortoise acetate, find your fit and choose your style with one of TC Fit’s Asian Fit frames.
Your Optician Is Your Best Friend
Posted: November 27, 2017 Filed under: General, tc fit | Tags: asian fit, culture, eyewear, industry, optical, optician, practice, tc fit Leave a commentSome of you might say “If I can just buy glasses online, why do I need to go to my optician?”
Well… in some ways you’re right. Buying glasses is easier now more than ever. You get your prescription from your optician, go home, find some cheap frames on the internet, insert your lens power and your credit card information and then in just a couple of days you have a pair of glasses at your door and ready to wear. So why would you leave and go to your practice to get your frames?
The answer is simple, and one that we stress throughout our company. Your glasses have to fit.
When you go to a practice to shop for frames, you are dealing with experienced opticians that are trained to help you find the kind of frame that will fit you well, look great on you, and handle your prescription. I can’t tell you how many times friends of mine have bought $15 frames off of a mass market website and couldn’t wait to wear them, only to have them be too small, too big, or just flat out ugly.
Shopping for your frames at a practice also gives you reliability. If you get home and realize your frames are too tight behind your ears, you can take them back up to the optician and have them adjusted. It’s this kind of service that makes optical practices so valuable to our industry.
Chances are, if you get glasses online, you’re going to have to take them up to an optician to get adjusted anyway, which uses their valuable time and is taking advantage of a free service when your cheap frames break or go crooked. Shopping for frames at your practice gives you the opportunity to find good looking frames made with high quality material, as well as frames that fit well and can be adjusted to fit your face right then and there. When you’re filling prescription lenses, an optician will measure your PD, or pupil distance, a measurement which is vital to being able to see well through your lenses and simply cannot be replicated online. Finally, your optician will be able to recommend which types of lenses are best for your vision, which they can only do because they know so much about you as a patient and are able to try different options.
Now, that’s not to say that all online eyewear retailers are bad or are trying to destroy the industry. Purchasing readers and computer lenses online can be quick and easy and a lot of online retailers provide some sort of virtual or trial fittings to make sure you are getting the right pair for your need. However, if you are looking for frames that you will be wearing all the time and have to be filled with your prescription, it’s no question that shopping with an optician is the only way to go.
Next time you go to the optician, take a look around the practice’s frames and talk to your optician about finding the perfect frame for you. You might just be surprised at what you can find.
Say Goodbye to Blue Light Headaches
Posted: October 2, 2017 Filed under: Asian Fit Readers, General | Tags: asian, asian fit, Asian Fit Eyewear, blue light, blue light blocker, Child, Fashion, future Leave a commentDo you often get headaches from looking at the computer or your phone for long periods of time? Most of us spend at least 2 hours a day looking at screens, whether it’s for work, scrolling through Facebook, or staying in touch with friends. Many of us even use our phones in bed! Looking at this light for too long can cause headaches, blurry vision, and permanent damage to your eyes. Sadly, digital strain is likely to stay around as we become more and more dependent on our devices.
It’s not just engineers and gamers we were worried about either. As a mother of three with ages ranging from teen to a young adult who is an aspiring game designer, and having lived in the Silicon Valley area for over two decades, the designer of TC Charton, Alexandra Peng, feels very strongly about having proper protection to combat 
this increasing concern that resonates deeply with her engineer friends and fellow parents. Unfortunately, technology like iPads and E-Readers haven’t been around that long so we don’t know exactly how harmful this could be to eye health. After combing through lens companies across the country, we partnered with a renowned lab located in California that offers lenses that can prevent damage to developing eyes!
Although there are other brands out there that offer computer glasses, we discovered there were none that were made specifically to fit non-Caucasian facial 
features, and none that were fit for children. What good is protective eyewear that doesn’t fit and keeps sliding down your nose?! This is where we step in. All of our frames are designed with Asian-Americans in mind, so not only was it our duty to provide safe and protective lenses, but also fit into a frame and style that would fit our customers properly and, in turn, help you take on your day in the best way possible.
You can read more about blue light and the possible damage it can have on our eyes here:
http://www.allaboutvision.com/cvs/blue-light.htm
http://2014.thevisioncouncil.org/content/blue-light-exposure-and-digital-eye-strain/teens
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