Talk to almost anyone with a strong glasses prescription, and they’ll confess a bit of self-consciousness. Not only do these thick lenses often look odd in thin and airy frames, they’re so strong that ...

Rich Dawson wasn’t trying to be trendy when he turned Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses into his first pair of prescription eyeglasses. The thick, black-rimmed frames, he thought, created an old-school look ...