There’s a forgotten art to making frames for specific professions. In Lewis Sasieni’s 1961 book The Principles and Practice of Optical Dispensing (a gripping read), the author considers the spectacle wearing needs of professions including musicians, dentists, carpenters, shopkeepers, and of course gardeners.

As Sasieni relates, ‘This task requires a considerable amount of close detail seeing: as when inspecting plants for disease, pricking out, and labelling’. Indeed it might be argued that the myopic gardener’s most useful tool is their spectacle frame, which lets them look closely at the objects of their pruning. Then again, our friends at Niwaki would probably make a good argument for a good pair of secateurs or shears.

Sasieni doesn’t go so far as to suggest a design for a frame fine-tuned to gardening, but it might look something like Mirei. Cable ‘curl’ temples that grip the ear with a reassuring embrace. Originally developed for secure wearing on horseback, they perform the equally important task of keeping the proper distance between face and flowerbed.