Great link - Some fantastic style icons there. Thanks for sharing it -

Best -

You have got to get your hands on the Oliver Peoples Riley Horn-rimmed glasses! The best!
http://www.oliverpeoples.com/iconic-styles/riley.html

Last edited by turk100 (2009-02-13 13:48:54)

Thanks for the comments all.

On aljazz's particularly helpful advice, I visited a few frames shops, and it's true, the polishing service is available (and at a quite reasonable price too). The problem however is that they all do it off-site which in light of my eye-sight challenges would mean that I would be out of commission for four days (I wouldn't trust myself to leave the house). I guess I could listen to the Shadow or the Whistler or some other old-time radio stuff. My fault for not having a back-up pair.

Saw a few pairs of Lafonts when I was out and about, and found them to be quite sharp (pricey though). I was really impressed that they had some with patterns that couldn't really be called tortoise shell but had some gradation of colour, if that makes any sense. I can't really find an exact picture to explain what I mean.

Here's some more frame porn for you four-eyes out there.
Lafont Aristo
http://eyeglass.com/lafontaristo.html

Lafont Jupiter (or is it called the Pantheon)
http://eyeglass.com/juropeprsh.html

These are really sharp, me thinks
http://eyeglass.com/aa06.html

(duh, I didn't realize they were Anglo-Americans until I looked at the link, saw the aa and then double-checked the pic)

While waiting for my glasses to get fixed up today, I looked over my local frame-shop's wares and was pleasantly surprised by the Hackett Bespoke line. I haven't seen much talk of it online and the pics I could find were rather lame but they look great in person. Larger frames that look quite classic. They do some interesting versions of the classic frames.

http://www.mondottica.co.uk/hackett/?p=2

Last edited by Decline & Fall (2009-03-09 13:38:44)