Posts under ‘Vintage Spectacles’

Now These Specs Are Cool And 50 Years Old*

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 [...]

How Specs Are Gaining All The Time In Style & Image
I read last year (I know I’ve had a lot of time off spectacles for a while and I’m just caching up now) three pieces and two completely different articles that endorse just how specs are on the up & up these days when it comes [...]

Glasses Designer Robert Marc Sees It This Way…
Taken from an article in The Star Tribune, glasses designer of over 20 years Robert Marc tells us what he thinks glasses say about you - or more specifically, what different types of glasses say about different you’s.
Quoting directly from the article… (And not all of his comments are [...]

Good Price Vintage Spctacles If You Bid Clever
I’ve been back to Ebay to check their vintage glasses and spectacles offers and this one looks good. Mind, You never know what will happen when the end is nigh!  that’s up to you to get in there and bid what you want.
The top two pairs are American [...]

Mikli Paris 30th Anniversary Glasses Collectors Items
Looking again at Alain Mikli’s site (see last week’s discovery of Milki spectacles) I see they have some of their signature spectacles in an anniversary collection as these above.  Each pair comes with an edition issue number.  They’re an update of 30 year old sunspecs as seen in this [...]

1998 Film With Sixties Sunglasses
I came across this picture and these specs the other day on a movie site.  It’s Ralph Fiennes and of course Uma Thurman in Warner Bros’ The Avengers movie (which met with critical distaste).  The original Avengers was a 1960’s UK TV series with the Thurman role (Emma Peel) played by [...]

Always Looking For Special Spectacles…
Spectacles Blog went on a little trip through the ether… following a link about some “glorious” round tortoishell spectacles.
I went via Style Salvage (savagely fashionable), an article in a magazine called Fantastic Man (only snippets on-line) and lastly to an even more fiendshly fashionista garance dore site where I eventually picked up this photo of theses [...]

Famous Four Eyes in Famous Browline Spectacles
Malcolm X seen here in 1963 was one of the many spectacles wearers of the “browline” glasses, invented in 1947 by Jack Rohrbach, then vice-president of Shuron Ltd (see earlier post on same).
Browlines were indeed just that - Brow Lines - with plastic frames built over the metal frame, [...]

Glasses Maker Still Going Strong
Since yesterday’s post featuring a pair of Shuron’s Glasses for sale (Ronsir Zyl, I think, with “Relaxo” side temples), I have visited the site of the maker - who are still making!
Shuron Limited has been going since 1865 (probably not in the same format, I’m sure) and boasts that most of the 50’s [...]

Vintage Glasses ~ Spectacles on Ebay

Once in a while I check out ebay and so on for  what’s out there and especially in the vintage market and look what I found here - from the 50’s or 60’s - they (nor I) are sure of the exct date.  But they are sure that they are Shuron [...]