There is quite a good photo of Christie with a tartan tie ( double-breasted suit though)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reginald_Halliday_Christie

This is the AAAC thread that alerted me to the frame seller :-

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=f87dae19c5e119422e63f944d0f05ac9&t=85004&highlight=spectacle+frames

I use to go for Oliver Peoples, but I think they were bought out by Prada(?), they use to have great retro-styles. Then there was Air Titanium who popularised the rimless specs for the first time outside of the Third Reich, haven't seen them for years.

My specs are some discrete Porsche Design and a pair of hand made horn rimmed from Germany, don't know the make off hand.  I'm extremely myopic, so I have to go for the smallest size lenses, otherwise I look like a geeky nerd.

I have worn Shuron Ronsir Zyl's for the last ten years. I will admit to being influenced by the retro aspect at first. I later found out they were the only style of glasses my late grandfather wore. I only need them for distance but, I am so use to them now, I don't ever think about these being seen as anything but ordinary spectacles.

http://www.shuron.com/ronsir_zyl.htm

I like the AA frames.  I hear you can get them cheaply over the ol' interweb.

Also like the old NHS glasses of Manchester 70's look.

Some lovely ENglish stuff from Cutter and Griffen or Cutter and Grafton or something similar like that.  Expesnive $500, and the shop was a couple of mincy too attendent to customers to gain my custom that day.  But as I said great glasses.

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I prefer the Clubmaster/Ronsir look to the first frames, which (perhaps unfairly) remind me of 80s yuppies.