I’m not talking about fit but rather how to get the eyeglass frames to have the right image with your face. Do you just match them with the structure of the base of your chin?
I once saw Geller being filmed “bending a spoon”. Or rather I didn’t see him do any such thing. The camera stayed on him. He didn’t manage to bend the spoon. Then the cameramen stopped to change film reel. When the footage restarts, lo and behold the spoon is bent, and Geller is protesting that it just “happened” to start bending while the reel was being changed and the cameramen were distracted. Pathetic. If I wasn’t cynical about Geller before (and I was) I sure was afterwards.
Get a friend with good taste to go shopping with you and try on heaps of frames and see what looks good. That’s what I did and everyone agrees I look better with glasses on that without. Which is very clever of them, given the raw materials they have to work with.
I don’t think there are any magic rules, you just have to try on a wide variety
Dammit, sorry about that, my first post in this thread was an accident.
I think you match them with the type of face that you have eg. round, oval, angular, etc… here’s a good explaination of what face shape goes with what eyeglass style.
It’s also good to go with someone so you can have a second opinion. And don’t forget that your lenses go in the frames so if you have thick lenses, (like me) it’s better to get thick frames (I think) so they don’t stick out and look like coke bottles.
I doubt there’s any magic formula. First you pick out drastically different shapes. Then you try on tiny variations of the frames that look best.
Just try on lots of different frames. When you find one you like, set it to the side and keep trying. When you go through all the ones that are appealing, then go back and narrow down the selection between the ones you liked.
You’ll get a feel for what goes well on your face after doing this. At least I do. I do believe the last time I went frame shopping I tried on close to 50 different frames in varying colours and styles 
Good luck
I should preface this by saying I’m quite nearsighted.
Whenever I get new glasses, I just bring my better half and try on frame after frame after frame in the store. The only problem I have is that when looking at the frames on my face, they obviously don’t have the prescription lenses. Therefore, I can’t see how the frames look. Thus, its critical that you bring a friend you trust to help you search.
The “perfect” glasses will change every couple of years.
In various years I had “wirerim”, “aviator” glasses (with a second cross bar at the nose), oversize, smallish, and now I’ve got contacts.
Each seemed right at the time and terribly dated by the time I got the next pair.
I think the mistake I see most commonly is people picking frames that are too large.
I have worn glasses for (or contacts) for over 20 years, and I never, ever, ever got decent advice from an optician on what frames to get. They’d stand there and let me try on pair after pair with very little input about what would work with my face, my coloring, the current fashion, and my particular prescription. Until finally I found one who did give all that advice. I had no idea what I was missing before. The selection in that particular boutique is limited and expensive, but I will go nowhere else.
Who knows, maybe most opticians have this advice to give but they wait to be asked? Perhaps they think it’s better to let people pick what they want so they won’t open up unless solicited. Give it a shot.
KCB615 wrote:
KCB: A good optometrist should have one of those “enlarging” mirrors. You know, the kind women use to put on makeup. You can look at yourself with different lensless frames and see how they look without any problem.
I just rest my glasses on the bridge of my nose, hook them over my ears, and they “go with my face” wherever I take it.
Glad that works for you. Doesn’t do dick for me–I just see a bigger blurry image. I just have to get my face real close to the mirror.
My husband is an optician, and I get to go shopping where he works. Note–opticians are not necessarily trained to help you pick frames that look good. Their job is measure your face, cut the lenses properly and put them into the frame, then bend the frame to fit you. There is no fashion certification. Part of my husbands job has always been to work out on the floor helping people pick frames, but for this he only has his own fashion sense to help. (Hint: if the optician is wearing a narrow tie and white socks with his black shoes, maybe you shouldn’t put too much weight on his opinion. )
It’s better to go to a place with a staff of sales people who do this all the time, and where you can get several opinions. Some of the sales people are really good, and some not so . . . just like when you go clothes shopping–except of course that you aren’t stuck wearing the same sweater every day for the next year. 
Signed,
Podkayne,
Who currently has frames that make her look FAB U LOUS.
I’m with Dinsdale. I can find the “right” frame quite easily by the simple question “What’s the cheapest frame you got?” Cheap frames go well with my cheap face.
BTW, I get my eyeglasses in China where they are about $12 -$15 including prescription lenses. That way I can afford to break them, lose them, etc