Spectacles Blog

Who’s Heard Of Theo Lunnettes?

During my “quiet spell” recently, Spectacles Blog has been bombarded with emails about Theo and a sunglasses brand/designer called Tim Van Steenbergen - or is it vice-versa?

The glasses look good but I have to digest all the emails and see what’s what.  I didn’t know that Antwerp was the centre of such fashion when it comes to sunglasses…

More soon once I’ve fallen victim to all the promotional emails (and they in themselves are quite smart. A lesson in email marketing).

Select Specs Spectacles Do The Job Very Well Thank You…

Invisible Rimless Glasses - Depending On The Angle

Bearing in mind that someone chased me to see these rimless spectacles (how did they know the code?) I thought I’d better show them.  But first apologies for the delay in putting them uphereon Spectacles Blog. There was no delay in the specs arriving but as you may see from the dates of the recent posts Spectacles Blog went into serious neglect for a while.  I just got all specked out…

I took these pictures of someone else in the specs - my face just live up to being a glasses model!  When you photograph them at a fairly straight on angle they almost disappear, which is the idea I guess.  To see the rimof the rimless glass (if you see what I mean) you have to get an angle.

Whichever and whatever… pretty blooming good for £18.  I use them for TV as that’s when other people look at me and “judge” my glasses. They like them.

Most Designer Spectacles & Sunglasses Leave Spectacles Blog Unimpressed But…

With Extra Spectacles For Your Temples

 … I saw these and I thought “now at least they were worth designing”.  Other wise I have to say (though it won’t do me any good) that most designer glasses are unremarkable - they are either something else slightly different or something else slightly different with a brand name or logo and sometimes a design hook or catch.

But these caught my eye: Ha another pun - unintended.  They are here shown in “Mirror Purple” but also come in black, grey/green and brown “havana” and they are D&G (with a four digit code number - no name bar “oversize).  (4102 I think.)

I like them and if you do, you can buy them on many “designer glasses” sites - or even in a shop goodness forbid - for around $150- 195.

Nothing to say about Spectacles…

Can I be the first to indulge in specs & drugs & rock 'n' roll?

…I just wanted to write that down before any one else did.

Or …  You tell me.

Meanwhile it’s added the spectacles puns on the specspert page

Bad Spectacles Jokes:

It started recently when all the papers had Kelly Brook in her knickers for Specsavers:  Every one had the “specs appeal” headline. Was that a phenomena of creativity or lazy journalism with the headline coming from the PR with the pictures and the sub imagining that headline would stand out - against the fifteen hundred identical ones!

So I wondered what the rest of the standards were in the spectacles archive of hilarity and bad word play.

I’m starting this now with two openers, one from the above and one new one

• Specs appeal
• Frame & fortune
• Then I will be coming back to this subject with more examples - feel free to write in…
• And then one day we’ll make the definitive spectacles pun book - meanwhile I’m going to put them allon the Specspert Page

NB I have the specspert .com and .co.uk domains registered - so I’ve got that one covered!

• PS New one… Am I a “Specs Maniac” for being obsessed by spectacles?

Are These Spectacles’ Flip Up Sunglasses Cool?

As you may know by now, I love my Polaroid clip ons.  These are the spring loaded ones which just clip on over your prescription spectacles.  They’ve been on Spectacles Blog before…

Flip Up...Just Like That

But now I’m trying the clip ons that flip up too.  I just love the idea and I think that they are really cool.  It’s just that when I photograph myself in them they don’t look so good as they would do on a film star.  And maybe that’s what they need to make them cool because many (unkind) people that I know in real life don’t think these flip ups are cool.  Some do but some don’t.

Lightweight & Ready To Fly

You can buy them at Polaroid Sunglasses site directly for just £26 - which is good especially compared with the more expensive Fit Over “Suncovers”.  I guess that these’s less of them even though they are more intricate. 

They are light weight, easy to fit, easy to flip up or down and they work like Polaroids.  Personally I don’t know what more a man could ask for…

Sunny Smile Sunglasses

He Likes his Sunglasses

This is Philip in his Raybans.  Don’t ask me what model or for any details… What do you think I am - an expert or one of the cognoscenti?

I just thought that as he looked so happy and comfortable in them, that he should have his photo taken in them for Spectacles Blog…

He knew less about them than I did - except that he liked them and didn’t want to take them off.

Now These Specs Are Cool And 50 Years Old*

1960's Spectacles: Antiques Already...

I saw these today - a  pair of 1960s clear plastic spectacles with reflective metallic green stripes - amongst other glasses and novelty spectacles-collectables on the Millers Antique Guide site. I’m not sure if this site is new because I’ve seen it in two different contexts in the last week.

If you’re interested in the real thing, then check them out and maybe you can track down your own antique spectacles.  They were  showing 1950’sand 1960’s glasses mostly

Or if you’re interested in something like these, made to your own design with your prescription, check the different spectacle frame patterns at Premiere Optical where they can make you some brand new “spectacles-collectables”

*I know people like that…

Photo Brett Rubin

It’s a long story and not much to do  wiith spectacles but if you wish to see the original please do so here.

The installation, in a fashionable SA studio features heads made of both books and spectacles.  The caption reads “One out of five people can’t read. Four out of five people can’t listen,” in the window of local fashion house Black Coffee’s studio and store.  It’s meant to reflect literacy statistics in South Africa.

It’s A Sunglasses Performance… You Can Buy Them Too…

It started when I saw the image (or a close relative) of the girl in the sunglasses in a magazine…  It was Prada Eyewear, so I went in search of the picture and the glasses. Somewhere along the way I got mixed up in the whole event which includes the “postcard”  concept and a video (”audio tale”) with some prose that was reminiscent of Lolita.

But if you persist and click enough times you can get to buy them (more details to follow).  Meanwhile you can see them at Prada.