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Summary: Full metal eyeglass frames are the most popular for children's eyeglasses. Learn more about this type of frame in this free video on children and eyeglasses.
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Stefan Czelusta Stefan Czelusta is the office manager at Texas State Optical in Austin, Texas. He has worked in optics for more than nine years. Czelusta helps customers choo... read more
Now we're going to talk about probably the most popular style of children's frames. Most of the children's frames you're going to find are just going to be full metal frames. Okay? We'll take a look at a few here and I'll go over the pros and cons. The full metal frame, again, available in an assortment of different colors here. These are the most adjustable types of frames. You can adjust at the temple. I'll pull this one out for instance. Okay. As we saw before these are the most adjustable frames. You can do, make these fit probably better than any other style of frame because they have a lot of dexterity and malleability to them. So you can mostly customize these for your child. They often come in multiple colors, multiple different sizes. They're also fairly adjustable on the temple which a lot of the other brands or styles we'll go over with aren't that adjustable. So you have a lot of ways to kind of adapt these frames for your child. A lot of different options. I'll show you one more type of metal frame and it's what I call a shadow metal frame. Let me grab this over here. This is what I call a shadow metal frame. And this is just a thicker style rim around the side. It still has the same dexterity. This is more for a fashion purpose. And this particular frame and probably this particular style is more for your older child. Possibly between the ages of like 12 and 16. There really is no limit. But it's generally speaking a little bit more of an older child style. Something that they would like more so than your younger ones but again has the same type of dexterity. Has the same sort of adaptability and it's very customizable for your child.