If you have a wider face or a larger head, you probably know the pain: you finally find a pair of oversized eyeglasses that are wide enough, but the moment you look down or smile, they immediately start sliding down your nose. Many people think they just have an oily face or a flat nose bridge. But as someone who has worked on the optical retail floor for over 30 years, I can tell you the real reason is a critical design flaw in most big-size frames.
Most mass-produced oversized eyeglass frames on the market scale everything up evenly. They give you a wider lens, but they also widen the bridge width to 20mm or more. This is where the problem lies. Based on human anatomy and decades of fitting real customers, people with a wider face or a wide head naturally tend to have a lower nose bridge. When a large frame has a wide 20mm bridge, it cannot grip your nose. The nose pads end up sitting too far apart, causing the eyeglasses to slide down constantly.
To get a perfect low bridge fit on a big head, you cannot just use traditional adjustments like stretching the temple arms out. Widening the temple angle helps very little, and it completely ruins the original beauty and silhouette of the glasses. You need a completely different optical engineering approach.
That is why at TAKEMOTO, since 2009, we became the only brand in the world to offer 4 to 5 regular size variations for our handmade eyeglasses. Especially when designing our signature XXL oversized eyewear, we do something very different: we actually shorten the bridge width to a narrower 16mm to 18mm, and at the exact same time, we manually raise the height of the nose pads.
This unique formula works perfectly for wide-faced customers looking for a secure, comfortable fit. The narrower bridge brings the raised nose pads closer together, allowing them to firmly and gently grip a lower nose bridge. You get a spacious, oversized frame that fits your wide face, but it feels like a tailored, custom-fit pair that stays exactly where it should. If you are tired of pushed-up glasses, you can even use our unique "ruler method"—simply take a front-facing photo of your face with a standard ruler placed right on your nose, or use the "EyeMeasure" app to get your PD, and our master craftsmen will ensure a flawless fit.
