Glasses chains… yes or no?

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I have reached the point where I need glasses for distance but not for reading or screens. At work I am standing all day and moving about doing various tasks involving both distance and screens, no proper desk/workstation, so I don’t want to take them off as I know I would lose them. I don’t have pockets in my work clothes. So I end up peering over them which looks shit, frankly.
A colleague who is always beautifully dressed has started attaching hers to a chain so they just hang down when not needed. It seems such a good idea, but I have no idea if it will look ridiculous. She is early 50s, and has a pearl chain.
For context I am 47 and fairly small bust, so longer necklaces are fine.
Google informs me that chains are back in, but I have a suspicion I may just look ridiculous. I can remember my mum having a gold glasses chain in the 90s, it was definitely not fashionable!
So, chain or not? And what sort of style would be most on trend?
My work clothes are usually a floral blouse with black trousers, minimal jewellery.

You can get very pretty ones, and yes they are fine.

Small beads tge colour if your floral blouse would blend in.

They scream Jenni Murray to me. Which is not a good thing. Although in all other respects I have no opinion about her.

She has a very particular face. It like talking about a haircut. It will look different on different people.

I used them but plain corded, not patterned or decorative.

I always carry a pair of (non-prescriprion) reading glasses and leave a pair in every room, car etc but at times it is handy to have them around my neck.

Im always admiring Andi Oliver’s glasses chains, she seems to have an amazing collection!

They sound practical in your situation. There are some very nice ones out there. I would imagine most people at work will see it the same as wearing an Lanyard for your work swipe.

When I was on holiday lots of places sold sunglasses cords like THIS which I like much better than the chains. I'll probably have to resort to reading glasses after I have laser eye surgery and might use something like this for work when they would be on and off constantly.

When will MN stop the first poster quoting the OP?!

I bought my husband a glasses clip thing:

"Strong Magnetic Eye Glasses Spectacle Sunglasses Holder Clip Brooch Steel"

He absolutely loves it - he never got on with a chain.

I use them because the alternative was I keep my glasses on my head and that breaks the hinges! I have several, some cord ones, some leather, a couple of chains and a couple of pearl strings. I mix and match depending on what I’m wearing!

It might be time for varifocal glasses. I’m short sighted so need glasses for distance, I can still read without my glasses on, but if I have glasses with just the distance prescription then I find I can’t read the dashboard in the car for example. With my varifocal glasses can see in the distance and up close as well, even though I don’t need glasses for reading when not wearing my glasses.

Totally up to you but I have told my sons if they ever buy me a chain for my glasses I will disown them 😂 I’m 60 and will wait until I’m 80 until I succumb. In the meantime I wear contacts!

I don't use a chain but a fabric straps instead. Before that I used leather ones. It's mainly because chains are cold against the skin. You can find all sorts of straps online!

How about this?
Pendant and Spectacle Holder – Newbridge Silverware https://share.google/d7yC4ccHmUTnnzhyl

I tried varifocals but I'm like the OP and don't need them for reading, only distance, so they didn't work for me - I was annoyed the optician told me I was a suitable candidate for them. I also wear contact lenses so I need a pair of reading glasses over them now unfortunately.

I posted on another thread about this recently, but I also wear contacts and now need reading glasses when I'm wearing them (although I do wear varifocals when not wearing contacts for this reason) and my optician encouraged me to try monovision lenses - one eye for distance, one eye undercorrected for reading. It sounds awful and I was very pessimistic about it but agreed to give it a try and it works brilliantly for me and means I don't have to bother with reading glasses when wearing contacts.

Uncorrected, my vision is fine for reading but I need it correcting for distance which means it then doesn't work for reading. So the options are either wear single vision glasses and keep lifting them up to read, wear varifocal glasses so I can read with the glasses on, wear monovision contacts, or wear single vision contacts with reading glasses. What your optician recommended sounds right to me, I'm not sure what the problem is with varifocals for you?

I'm wondering if the prescription was wrong. The prescriber seemed to think I need a prescription for reading and mid distance despite me being able to read the bottom paragraph on the reading text. As far as I'm concerned the reading section needed to be clear. I had them made into distance glasses in the end and if I try them again I'll go elsewhere. I also couldn't get the hang of moving my head rather than just my eyes. They aren't for everyone unfortunately.

I might try monovision but I've got 3 months worth of disposable lenses left before I try that. Have you ever tried varifocal contacts?

No, apparently my astigmatism is too bad, there are very few lenses I can get on with as they just don't sit properly, even the toric ones, so they just make everything look foggy. The optician wasn't convinced that any of the varifocal ones would work well enough. When I first started wearing contacts many years ago it took about ten different trial pairs plus a very expensive and unsuccessful pair of gas permeables before I finally got a pair that fit well enough.

Chains are bad because in the case they can scratch the lenses. A cord or ribbon is fine.

I’ve just reached this point - so annoying to be both long and short sighted. I feel like varifocals are a really old thing though and don’t feel ready to give in 😂🙈. Do they not make you feel really disorientated? I think I am going to have to admit defeat soon 🥲!

I have varifocals and I find it impossible to look at the computer which is mid distance and basically my own eyes with no prescription, so I still have a glasses chain because mine are on and off at work all the time.

I have a chain which is quite pretty but the very practical plain fabric one works best for me. I know this is S and B, but sometimes you just have to be practical.

@Toooldtopretend they take some getting used to. I don't like walking outdoors in mine and definitely don't like doing stairs. They're fantastic for driving though and I have had to just give in and wear them most of the time.

I definitely think the shape of the lens makes a difference too though. I have two pairs and one I feel is better for reading my phone and the other is better all round.

This is similar for me, I do very close intricate work (no screen) and generally dont need glasses and can read small print without....but need distance glasses.
Weirdly in the morning, (on a train now, typing on my phone) the distance glasses seem to be fine for using my phone. But after 95% of the working day with no glasses on, I can't hope to use my glasses and look at my phone, in the evening, I have to take them off. and then spend the whole evening taking them off and putting them on
My previous prescription contact lenses, (-2.25) seem fine for both reading and distance but I can't wear for work

Ive worn them for years, have probably a dozen to match different outfits