Find a piece · Thick acetate reading glasses
The same frame twice, $125 apart.
Miklos is the frame Caddis built its reputation on, and the house is unusually honest about who it suits: people with larger faces buy it for the thickness and the solid feel, people with smaller faces buy it precisely because it refuses to disappear. Look closely and there is Port engraved over the left eye and Starboard over the right. A boat joke, not a yacht joke, which is roughly the whole personality of the company.
Then there is the double-plus version, which is where this page earns its keep. Miklos++ is the same silhouette with the fit and finish turned up: offset hinges designed for it specifically, bio-based acetate, added metal detailing. Nothing about the shape on your face changes. What changes is how the arms feel when they open and how the frame reads at close range.
So the real question is not which frame. It is whether hinge engineering and material upgrades are worth more than doubling the price, and that is a question you are allowed to answer no to.
The piece
Caddis — Miklos++ Custom Reading Glasses, Gloss Black / Matte Bronze
Where it goes
The house's square frame, and the page where this maker first turned up here, is a squared shape that keeps its weight low.
For an optician's pedigree instead of a boat joke, California heritage in a rounded square makes the other case.
And the trend end of the same drawer is a small oval you can afford to be careless with.
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