My husband may actually be getting Lasik at some point in the next couple of years. His prescription has stabilized, and even if he still sometimes needed glasses after the procedure he'd be much better off than he is now. He hasn't worn contacts since I've known him, but apparently he did give them a try briefly in early college and found the same thing you did - that they didn't cut the mustard for vision correction. Especially since he did a lot of photography at the time.

Anyhoo, back to DT: the glasses are just so hot! Even though he doesn't seem to think so... but then he probably grew up wearing NHS black plastic hornrims, so I can see where he got a bit tired of them. Do English girls not have the thing about peeling the glasses off of a speccy boy? It's sort of like undressing them! Hee!