What is the difference between acetate and plastic frame glasses?

[Adelina]

What is the difference between acetate and plastic frame glasses?

[Ayana]

In a way, acetate is one type of plastic materials. Compared standard plastic glasses frames, acetate plastic glasses frames are more durable. Acetate frame glasses are usually light weight and has good flexibility to it. And acetate frames can be carved out of rich colored patterns on the frames. While standard plastic may be painted to get flowery patterns.

[Kai]

Acetate is one of the different types of plastic. But it is different from the regular plastic. Compared with regular plastic, acetate plastic glasses are more durable than regular plastic frame glasses. Besides, acetate plastic glasses are lightweight and flexible, which will make people comfortable to wear. Moreover, acetate frames have patterns embedded to them while regular plastic just have the patterns painted on them.

[Nola]

Actually, acetate frame glasses are one kind of plastic frame glasses. However, it is lighter than the latter one, and is not easy to break. Even it is broken, the fragment is not that shape so that the damage to the eyes and the face could reduce maximize. It could be colored easily to catch the current fashion. The light transmittance of normal glass is 90%, the acetate glass is 2% higher than that. And it has anti-fog ability to avoid foggy version on the glasses.