Specs Optical Sunglasses 2014

Get ready for the summer of 2014, Minneapolis! The sun is finally here and we are ready to prepare you with a whole new smorgasbord of beautiful sunglasses by the eyewear collections you’ve come to know and love. DITA, Mykita, Anne et Valentin, Morgenthal...

“Lovin’ my new Specs!”

This makes us so happy here at Specs Optical. We recently received an email with a snapshot of Ben Glaros and the accompanying line: “Lovin’ my new specs!”  Ben Glaros is John’s guitar teacher (read: the hardest working man in his industry) and...

Andrew’s 2011 New York Vision Expo Trip

Night view from my room at the Cooper Square Hotel on 5th and Bowery. The top on the Empire State building was lit up in green on St. Patty’s Day. Cool drizzled-tar street art outside the Nespresso shop. Ran across this while out shopping shortly after arriving...

IVEY AWARDS

I went to the ‘Ivey Awards’, Minnesota’s version of the Tony Awards, this September.  On and off of the red carpet, I saw many faces I recognized from SPECS OPTICAL. I stayed off the red carpet (my luck is I would slip, trip and fall.) Many of our...

Specs Optical – Color You Happy

COLOR Ok, y’all…the weather has been drab as the summer winds down and we head into the fall/winter seasons. It’s time to brighten things up a bit. Daring colors are more popular than ever in fashion and your eyewear is not to be excluded. Check out...