When a wearer has a particularly long face, how should the vertical depth of the frame be adjusted?

• A. It should be decreased
• B. It should stay the same
• C. It should be increased
• D. It should be eliminated

Answer: (C)

When a wearer has a long face, the goal is to balance facial proportions by adding some frame presence vertically. Increasing the vertical depth of the frame front adds more visual weight above and below the eye line, which helps to break up and shorten the appearance of the face’s length. A deeper frame essentially expands the frame’s footprint on the face, creating a counterbalance to the elongated vertical dimension.

Choosing a shallower frame or keeping the depth the same wouldn’t provide that added vertical balance and could leave the face looking more elongated. Eliminating the frame isn’t practical for vision correction.