Holiday frames

This is one of those ideas that a few years ago we would simply think to be ridiculous. When getting prescription glasses used to cost $200 or $300 a pair then no one would go and buy a special pair Holiday frames just for this time of the year. Wear something just for a day or two at that price?

However, now that glasses have come down so much in price it's simple enough to do something like that. Seriously, now that you can get proper prescription glasses (a pair of which from this company I am wearing as I type this) for onlyu $9.95 why wouldn't you get a new pair of special Holiday frames? Something special to go with your outfit for the party?

You might spend that much on other accessories for an outfit, so why not cheer up your glasses at the same time?

These little delights have that holiday touch after all. Green and red, holly and Santa.

To me it's a measure of how the world has changed, how great globalisation is really. It's made things which formerly were expensive, things that we had to think about, plan for, their purchase, have now become simple pleasures that we can buy cheaply just or the holidays. That's an advance, isn't it?