Do you wear Vintage Eyeglasses? Any Pics?

Not me, but a recent customer I blogged about on my b&m website just told me about a local optometrist who has a secret stash of NOS frames - check out her frames, and new hat, from my store!
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Sweetrockingal -- Do I know you? Where are you located?


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I live in San Diego but I usually make my way to LA. We met at the Santa Monica Fashion Expo I bought some tops from you I've been wanting to get to your shop you had some of the best stuff at the expo :)
 
Me with my newest glasses! I found them in brown AND black. One for regular lenses the other for sunglasses.

You know...I've worn vintage glasses since the 1970s!! Wire rims were the newest rage at the time and my grandmother gave me her old frames. They were gold filled, such nice quality. Come to think about it I probably still have them! I should have my current perscription put in them.
Melody
 
This is my little girl (10 months at the time) in a pair of my frames.
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Hi,

I want to say GREAT photos ladies! I love to see people wearing vintage glasses and shades!

I love antique eyeglasses but because I actually HAD to wear a pair of blue cats eye glasses when I was 5 years old...I will never wear them again and they look awful on me. My preferences over the past 20 years has been for 1920s, 30s and 40s eyeglasses with tortoiseshell frames, and I have a tortoise pair I call my Carole Lombard glasses. I also love to wear black, little round frames that remind me of Barton Fink! I also wear Victorian and Edwardian glasses when I lecture, especially the "pinche nose" type.

And I will try to get someone to take a photo of me in my all time favorites....my "Annie Sullivan" dark glasses from 1910, darkest ever, big round glass lenses and wire frames. But when I wear those I cannot see a darn thing unless I am in bright full sun!

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If I'd kept the glasses they'd be vintage now -I'm holding them - taken in 1986:

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This was taken a couple of years ago and the glasses are vintage '70's frames. I'm still wearing them:
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I had a wonderful pair of '60's Jackie O style French sunglasses but unfortunately the plastic failed and I had to toss them.
 
so many cute glasses, now I want to shop for more! wish I hadn't tinted this, but these are my pink aluminum glasses w/ clear lenses (maybe someday I'll need real!).....

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Ang
 
hot off the press is this photo taken today, with my new frames - and my adorable cousin Joshua. Not vintage frames, brand new Diors but they kind of have a '50s look (apologies for the blurriness).

Nicole
 
Wow Nicole you look great. And your cousin is adorable.

As we are showing reproductions too, here one of me in my Lunors, that i wear when I'm going for a 19th Century look (not something many people aspire to I know!). Actually they're great subtle specs for every day too.

Lunor are a German company and make fantasic reproduction vintage spectacles, 19th and early 20th Century styles. I think they get used in films a lot. These have no nosepads, and even have the little loops on the end of the arms!

Ruth

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Antique frames are the best! I've been buying coin silver frames and had no problems putting in prescription lenses. I also have octagonal 14k gold frames from about 1850 which I picked up online for $150. The small lens size really appeals to me and the craftsmanship back then was 10x greater than today.
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