Isn't It a Shame?

It's been many years that I've had these glasses. They've served me well over the years - but now the frame is chipped, and prescription is out of date.

So now its a matter of buying new glasses - aside from the usual questions of where to buy them, what style of frame do I want(those big thick frames look goofy on me), I've discovered another hitch.

Given that people who are buying glasses have problems seeing without their glasses....how do people SHOP for glasses? The frames you're trying on have no magnification/prescription, and in fact have smudged/blurry lenses that make seeing things worse(at least for me) than no lenses at all.

In order to see what I look like, I need to get right up close to the mirror and squint. The problem then is that I'm squinting....so I look goofy regardless of what frame I'm wearing!!