"Marsha" wrote in message ...
Pete C. wrote:

Shawn Hirn wrote:
True, but the OP could use the original lenses in new frames. There's no
law that says a frame and lenses must be sold together.


They keep changing frame shapes to prevent that (more profits). The
lenses may be perfectly fine, but it's very likely you won't find new
frames of the same size and shape if it's more than a year or two old.

When my mother's frames broke, the first shop we went to said they didn't
have frames to fit her lenses, but they could do both frames and lenses.
When I said we go someplace else, it was amazing how fast they found a
pair of frames that fit.

Marsha/Ohio



There are too many factors to be able to argue the point. For instance, if
the lens is small, and it's a bifocal prescription, trimming it might remove
too much of one of the focal "zones". It all depends....