Specs makes prescription frames in colors the optical shop was too scared to stock — hand-polished Italian acetate in tangerine, grape soda, and electric coral. Pick five, try them at home for a week, keep the ones your face won't shut up about.
The group chat heard about us first. Then everyone else did.
Glasses are a face decision, and faces don't translate through a phone screen. So we mail you the actual frames. Live with them, photograph them, ask the group chat — then send back what didn't make the cut.
Choose any five frames from the collection. We ship them in a padded reusable box with a prepaid return label already inside. No deposit, no card hold, no catch.
Wear them to work, to dinner, to the harsh lighting of a fitting room. Seven days is enough to know which pair you keep reaching for.
Drop the box at any carrier point with the label we tucked inside. Returns are free, in both directions, every single time.
Found the one? Add your prescription and pupillary distance at checkout and we'll cut the lenses fresh. The try-on pair goes back; your real pair ships in two days.
Every shape comes in a palette we mixed ourselves — no muddy browns, no apologetic greys unless you ask for them. Here's what's shipping this season.
A bold cat-eye in deep translucent violet that throws purple light when the sun hits the temple.
Chunky rounds in glossy orange acetate. Loud on the rack, weirdly flattering on the face.
An angular browline that means business, dipped in a coral so bright it counts as a personality.
Soft squares in a milky mint green — the gentlest frame we make, and the one that sells out first.
Slim rectangles in semi-clear yellow. Reads sharp on Zoom, reads sunshine in person.
Oversized rounds in hot pink with a keyhole bridge. Subtlety was never the assignment.
The numbers behind the color
The color gets people in the door. The build is why they stay. Every pair is made from the same materials the heritage houses use — we just skipped the heritage markup.
We carve frames from sheets of Mazzucchelli cotton-based acetate, the same stock the luxury houses buy. It holds color deep through the material, so a scratch never shows bare plastic underneath.
Each frame tumbles in beechwood chips for the better part of a day, then gets finished by hand. That's where the glass-smooth shine and the soft edge against your temple come from.
Every order ships with anti-glare, anti-scratch, and blue-light filtering as standard — not as a $90 upsell at the register.
Five-barrel OBE hinges, spring-loaded so the temples flex without snapping. The pair you love in a year should still close like the day it arrived.
Tell us your measurements and we adjust nose pads and temple length before shipping. Frames arrive ready to wear, not ready to fight with.
“I've been complimented on the grape soda Margots more times in a month than on anything else I own. A barista asked where I got them mid-pour.”
“The home try-on is the only reason I finally switched. I'm picky and indecisive, and living with five pairs for a week killed every excuse I had.”
“I expected the price to mean a flimsy frame. They feel heavier and smoother than the designer pair I paid four times as much for two years ago.”
No tiered upsells at the counter, no surprise coating fees. The number on the frame is the number you pay, with the good lenses already included.
One frame, one prescription, done right.
One for the office, one for the weekend.
Five frames mailed to your mirror.
Pick any five frames and we mail them in a padded box with a prepaid return label already inside. You get seven days to wear them in real light. Send back what you don't want, then order your keeper with your prescription. There's no card hold and no charge unless you buy.
Yes — that's the whole point. Enter the prescription from your most recent eye exam plus your pupillary distance at checkout. If you don't have your PD, we'll walk you through measuring it at home with a card and a mirror in about a minute.
We design and sell direct, cut our own acetate, and skip the licensing fees baked into designer eyewear. Same Italian materials and lab-grade lenses, none of the middlemen. The savings are the model, not a sale.
Screens lie about color, which is exactly why we mail you the real frames first. See the actual tangerine on your actual face before a single lens gets cut. If it's not the one, send it back free.
We're out-of-network with most vision plans, so we provide an itemized receipt you can submit for reimbursement. FSA and HSA cards work directly at checkout, since prescription eyewear is an eligible expense.
Every pair carries a one-year warranty against manufacturing faults — cracked acetate, a failed hinge, lens coating that lifts. Sit on them at a party instead? Reach out anyway; we replace accident damage once at half price, no interrogation.
Pick five frames, try them for a week, and pay nothing until one of them refuses to leave. Free shipping, free returns, no pressure either way.