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 nowI’m trying the clip ons that flip uptoo. 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…
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”
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.
More Spectacles Info From The Frames Direct Stable
This one is about the twistable and it looks like unbreakable spectacles framesfrom Easy Twist. The twist in the video is at the end they add clip ons (and you know I like sunglass clip-ons) but they don’t do any twisting and bending after that… which kind of makes it all a bit pointless unless you can guarantee to only bust your glasses on cloudy days. The film is from the Frames Direct section on You Tube - a mine of information…
I saw a blog post by someone who complained that they “were not pretty enough” for the Specsavers scout - who asked the woman sitting next to her on a bench if she’d like to enter. This particular blog had a photo of said plaintiff. I think the scout was right. But wouldn’t you know that?
It’s a shame… it’s from another email I sent myself as a reminder to look into some spectacles or sunglasses subject later. In this case it was over a year ago and the email is languishing and I think it’s because I had wind of these sunglasses but couldn’t get the info quickly enough from the site.
Revo Sunglasses Site
So what have I now found out about these good looking sunglasses? Firstly that they have some (but I think not all) of their plastic frames made from 100% recycled plastics…
“Revo Re-Use frame components are made from 100% recycled pre-consumer polymer resins” they say.
What have I not found out? Where you can buy them… the store locator doesn’t work (for me). (But you can buy them through many outlets on-line.) Can you have prescription? Yes I think so but I’m not sure how you get them. What’s the full extent of the range? No idea; looking at one example took me minutes so I gave up. Cost? See above… general impression is that they are a “quality” (materials & technology etc) item and not a discount pair of shades…
I sent myself an email at Spectacles Blog 15 months ago with this picture attached and no notes saying anythig more than Hippopotomuse. Now I cannot find any reference or link back to either the specs/goggles or the picture or what hippopotomuse means in this context.
Who’s picture/specs is this. Any body know? Apologies in the meantime for printing without due reference…
I’d like to know because not only is it polite to credit the people who made the glasses but I think I want a pair! Any one know anything? Please let me know…
Oh we get so much spam… most of which is filtered out by a very efficient spam filter. But some gets through by less mechanical means - ie some person. This time it was “Lizzie Doodson” basically sticking a comment on any old article with a link to whichever sunglasses on-line store she works for.
“I own about 3 pairs of these sunglasses which is kinda sad, lol” she said. Shame that we were talking about special spectacles for Mexican children, provided free by the government and NFP agencies/collaborators. So s*d *ff Lizzie!
