Vanity thy name is contact lenses

There's some interesting detail on the potential future market for contact lens use in this report http://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-market-eyeglasses-reach-113-222300690.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CUn3bhQ7SMAdjPQtDMD which predicts the global market to exceed $12.2bn by 2018. However I have to take issue with the comment 'Vanity continues to be the major factor driving contact lens usage'. Obviously this may be true of wearers of coloured contact lenses, but I think it's rather unfair on those of us who prefer the better peripheral vision afforded by a contact lens. I started out wearing contact lenses as a myopic rugby playing teenager and have never been tempted away by fancy spectacles, mainly because I feel much less bumbling when going about my daily activities wearing contact lenses. It's also interesting to note that multi-focus is the fastest growing segment in soft contact lenses and that's presumably as a result of long-term wearers like myself succumbing to presbyopia and wanting to continue with contact lens wear. Nonetheless, compared to the global market for spectacles, projected at $113.2bn by 2018, the contact lens sector remains much smaller at roughly a tenth of the value. Growth drivers of trendy and sporty spectacle frames that create a statement could arguably be called more of a vanity purchase, but good vision whatever your choice of correction is not to be sniffed at.