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These Were on The Catwalk Too - Prada This Time
Following the last post about the catwalk, these were also seen at Prada.  Or like these…  (Thepromoters of these onesdon’t ike the full eye brow - browline - of the full cat eye look.)  SO I guess that we’re talking cats eyes on the cat’s walk.
These [...]

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 [...]

Jo’s Very Cool Retro Sunglasses Get A Last Golden Outing In The Autumn Sunshine
A very proud but slightly shy owner of these fantastic sunglasses, Jo is.  She bought them because her grandmother (or was it her grandfather) had a pair just like it way back - which is a wonderful reason to get such wonderful glasses.  But at [...]

Spectacles Blog Reckons You Just Have to Try Them On!
See the “Choosing Spectacles” section in the library because I’ve written posts before - (and I’m sure I’ll write more) about how to get the right glasses, spectacles (or sunglasses*) for your face but frankly I’m not impressed with myself - either as a writer or as [...]

Lennon’s Round Specs Look (”grandpa-style glasses) “Happened by Accident”

I’m sorry but I cannot recall where I got this news from but…
It has been reported that “John Lennon’s signature look with grandpa-style spectacles happened by accident, a Spanish Beatles researcher has claimed”.  It all happened, according to Adolfo Iglesias, during a stay in the city of Almeria, Spain in 1966, [...]

I Want A Pair Of Glasses Like This
The answer to my own question is at the Eyeglasses Warehouse!  These aluminum mens browline spectacles pictured (aluminum and what?) are what I’d really like to be wearing as my first pair of proper prescription glasses.  And I guess I could buy them as they are for sale - [...]

Spectacles Blog Failing So Far In The Quest For Movie Sunglasses & Spectacles
If you check the Spectacles Blog library listing on the right you can see that the smallest category in terms of number of entries is the one that I thought would be quite easy.  It should certainly be popular - people love celebrity [...]

And A Bit Of Bugatti Eyewear/Augar History
(When I say different, I mean different to the now famous and much looked-for Heston Blumenthal spectacles we’ve looked at and searched for many times!)
So here’s a little bit of spectacles history…  Since 2005  Augar has owned the Bugatti brand and added it to the French stable of glasses & sunglasses brands [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]