In October the sun comes in sideways. It slips under the clouds, lands low across the table and turns the page into a small bright square. Ten minutes later it is gone, the sky is the colour of wet slate, and you are reaching for your coat. Autumn light asks for a little flexibility from the things we wear.
Reading glasses for low autumn sun
In autumn the sun hangs lower in the sky. It no longer falls from above. It arrives at eye level, across the table, across the page, through the window of the train. Lovely for a photograph. Less lovely for a paperback. The answer is not a second pair in your bag for every kind of light, but one frame that can handle two. Most of us do not want to carry a drawer of glasses, and we should not have to.
Reading glasses with sun clip, in one frame
This is what the Eclips was made for. The Eyedo Eclips is a reader with a detachable magnetic sun clip, so you move between reading glasses and reading sunglasses in seconds, without changing frames. The frame is the butterfly-shaped Eyedo, and the clip has its own compartment in the hard case that comes with it. Clip on when the sun appears. Clip off when it leaves. Blue light filtering is standard on all Frank and Lucie readers and sunglasses, so it travels with you either way.
Eyedo Eclips in Pretty Coat and Layer me
Two colours to choose from, Pretty Coat and Layer me. Pretty Coat is a light tortoise acetate, finished with pink-brown sun lenses, a softer take on the season. Layer me is the quieter one, made for coats, scarves and a bit of layering of its own. Strengths run from +1 to +3, with a 0.0 option for those who want the frame and the clip before they need the strength.
Sunreaders for the brighter days
Some autumn days are simply bright, crisp and clear from morning to evening. For those there are sunreaders, reading strength and UV protection in one frame. The lenses are lighter than standard sunglasses, designed for the indirect light you read in, and 100% UV-resistant. The Eyedentity Sun Readers come in Greyvanna, among others. Or browse the full readers collection and see which frame fits the way you like to sit with a book, a coffee and a window.
Meet the Eyedo Eclips, and keep an eye on the sky.
