Foster Grant Men's Sawyer Multifocus Reading Glasses Rectangular

It's great Foster Grant provides multi-focus glasses at a reasonable price. I bought both the Wes and the Sawyer styles (both 1.75x) -- in the attached comparison photo, the Wes is on top, Sawyer on bottom.I have a square jaw and a wide square face, so wide rectangular glasses like the Sawyer look best on me. However there are a few problems with these glasses, and it's particularly bad on the Sawyer. I don't like the Wes style much because it doesn't match my face as well, but in usage it works better, for reasons described below.1) The bottom band of magnification is very narrow, it's maybe 1/6 the height of the lens. Since the Sawyer lenses are narrow to start with, the full-strength magnification is in a tiny sliver at the bottom of the frame. I have to push the glasses high on my nose and tilt my head back to read anything in that band. The Wes is a lot better, because the taller lens has a taller band at the bottom, and the frame also has additional curvature at the bottom so it's easier to read through that area.2) Something seems to be wrong with the lens coating on the Sawyer, so no matter how I try to wipe or clean the lenses I can't get them fully clean. Someone in another review mentioned that the ones at Walgreens are higher quality. Normally I would doubt that's true, but it would explain the difference between my glasses (I bought the Sawyer on Amazon, and the Wes at Walgreens)... so, heh, if I buy more of these glasses, I might avoid Amazon next time.3) On both glasses, there's a circle with letters etched into both lenses. Looking at the glasses from the back, the left lens has the magnification value ("175" in my case), and the right lens has "FGX" which I assume stands for Foster Grant. On the Sawyer, this etching is very strong. It's probably not a problem for most people, but when I'm wearing them I actually see it -- it's a blurry spot on the side of my vision, and I keep thinking I needed to wipe a smudge off the lens. When I first got the glasses I didn't notice the etchings, I just thought it was a smudge, and it took a while to realize that Foster Grant ACTUALLY ETCHED SYMBOLS ON THE LENS YOU LOOK THROUGH. See the attached pics for detail.Overall I appreciate multi-focus glasses at a reasonable price but these frustrate me.

I really liked the "multifocus" feature of these glasses, but after going through two pair of them, I can only call them a complete fail.With the first pair, I found that the nose pads were uncomfortable on me. These are made to be adjustable for different wearers, so I made several attempts to bend the support wires so they'd fit better. Not only was I not able to improve the comfort, but after a couple of weeks one of the pads fell off. I got a replacement pair, and thinking that my attempts to adjust the pads had caused one of them to fall off, this time I didn't touch them. My previous adjustments hadn't done any real good, and since I don't wear reading glasses all day long, the discomfort wasn't too bad.But after owning the second pair for another couple of weeks, again one of the nose pads fell off.So I'm off to find some multifocus reading glasses from another manufacturer. I strongly recommend you do the same, rather than buying these.

Love these new Foster Grant Multifocus Glasses! After seeing these advertised on television, I decided to give them a try and they are wonderful!I am new to having to wear reading glasses - everyone jokes how it's a birthday gift around 50 years old yet it's no gift. While some of the glasses can be stylish, I find them to be annoying and uncomfortable. Annoying to take on and off and then have to carry them for the few minutes that I'll need them again - maybe just to read a menu. Uncomfortable because I don't need them most of the time so I end up putting them on my head and then they are just an uncomfortable headband. Well, these are different!!!Foster Grant Multifocus are a different kind of reading glass.1. They are stylish. To be honest, I ordered 4 different style in order to choose which ones to buy for my husband and myself. I chose the Conan style and he chose the Sawyer style. All were stylish just each a bit different.2. They are honestly multi focus so I don't need to take them on and off. For me the best part of this is to be able to type on my laptop, turn my head to read a piece of fine print on paper and then return to the computer screen to type. Ahhh! No more taking my glasses on and off again and again. I probably won't walk around in them yet that brings me to the next point.3. They are comfortable. While the multifocus says that you can leave them on to be able to look straight ahead for distance, I didn't find this the most comfortable - while not blurry, it was just a bit straining. So...I put them up on my head. Wow! Foster Grant has wonderful spring arms so they are a very comfortable head band! yeah!While not the least expensive, I am very very happy with our new Foster Grant Multifocus glasses and will be buying more!I appreciate other purchasers' reviews and that is why I choose to write them now. Amazon reviews help me choose which products to buy. I sort product choices by Average Customer Review to help decide which item to choose. I didn't find a lot of reviews for Foster Grant Multifocus as they are quite new. I have found customer reviews to be very helpful and hope that I am paying it forward by providing this review. Thank you to Foster Grant for making this nice product and to Amazon for selling it and shipping it so quickly. I love Amazon!

There are so many options out there, and I've tried a number of them.. I've purchased two of these for two reasons: (1) Reliable product, name brand. (2) Scratches easily, so want a replacement as necessary.If you have a small face, I'd advise against this product. Also, like most of mass-produced readers, it scratches easily which is very frustrating. The reason I'd recommend this is that it is a reliable, useful product with good optics. Not a fashion look, though.

FosterGrant needs to come out with a line of flexible, more abuse-resistant frames. These lenses work great, but the second you don't use a case the frames are falling apart. The readers I get from Costco with flexible frames are WAY better, and half the price.

I bought these for computer display and paper work as I use 2 different reader strengths for both and didn’t want to keep switching glasses for each. I find them the be a bit too blurry to use and not as sharp as single strength readers though the multifocus strengths are the right range for me. I hoped for better quality from Foster Grant.

Unfortunately was not clear(pun) in multiple focus point at what level. And usually I tend to trust pricing, the price tag was still on it at 10 cheaper it seemed which urged me to compare. And I found the same pair at a local drug store at the same 10.00 cheaper. Lesson learn!

The lenses are nice with a coating for reducing screen fatigue. However for me the glasses always slide forward and even trying to adjust them doesn't help too much.