HANDS ON - Eye on Accessories
Clip Tips
by Amy Spiezio

Polarized, tinted, mirror coated, or in any color of the rainbow, clips offer a value add-on for eyewear users. Answering the call for convenience, clips offer patients an easy-to-use alternative to sunwear.

While many major eyewear manufacturers offer clips to go with select frames, a number of clip companies are offering customized or stock clips to give your patients exactly what they're looking for.

Thanks to modern technology, clips are held in place in a variety of manners--they lock on by prongs, magnets, and state-of-the-art gripping devices. Any way you attach them, clips are here to stay.

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Clips come in a variety of sizes, shapes, colors, and styles. A sampling from the market: 1. Fantom's no-top-bar FantomClip, www.fantomclip.com; 2. Elite Smart Flip clip with styles 417, 418, and 419, www.eliteeyewear.com; 3. Aspex model N9060 magnetic clips, www.aspexeyewear.com; 4. IC Concepts' Just Match-It clip system, www.justmatchit.com; 5. Scojo's Duane Street clips, www.scojo.com; 6. Airclip Plastic sunclips, www.airclip.com; 7. Hilco gold oval clips, www.hilco.com

quick tips

According to the Vision Council of America, sunclip users can be targeted by age and other demographic factors. About half of sunclip users are age 50 and over. In addition, women and married people are more likely to use sunclips than the rest of the population.