Eyewear of the thirties.

Although the thirties were a difficult time not only for creativity but also for the survival of all, the fashion of the decade, never ceases to inspire designers to this day. Glamour, which entered in the lives of generations from Hollywood films in those years; surrealist, Italian model Elsa Schiaparelli, which, according to many experts on fashion, not only the original designer of the thirties, but also one of the most avant-garde designers of the XX century, fascination with sporty styling - all this makes the fashion of the 1930s is really attractive and versatile.

For our readers, of course, is of interest to the question of what kind of eyewear were fashionable in those years. Here we would like to note the following. Their topicality in the third decade has not lost  the eyewear with a big round light openings that appeared on the front of the stage in 1920. Their development was made possible by the invention of punctual elements, noticeably improved the image quality, including in the area of ​​the periphery of the lens. The author's thesis, "A look at the history of designer eyewear and their application in Germany after 1850" Susanne Buck indicates a wide distribution in the thirties Windsor glasses, which were wear independent of age and sex (let me remind our readers that Windsor glasses - round-rimmed eyewear frame that were made ​​entirely of metal, while the ring of light apertures arrayed in a celluloid) Buck, S. Der geschärfte (Blick zur Geschichte der Brille und ihrer Verwendung in Deutschland seit 1850 / Susanne Buck. Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2002. S. 74.) A good proof on the pages of her thesis, Ms. Buck brings two interesting photos of the 1930s, one of which is embodied young man on the day of his wedding in the Windsor bespectacled, on the other - a teenage girl.

A good proof in the Big American Album where the photographs from family archives displayed in America faces, we also found photos of people in the era of the thirties, nickel-plated round eyewear frame shape; a lot of the pictures where people in a pince-nez. Regarding the latter, a similar pattern was observed in Europe, where pince-nez were wear to the beginning of World War II.

At a certain segment of the population was popular spectacles in a round, completely made ​​of celluloid, a thick-rimmed with a wide nose, which even then were regarded as eyewear of philosophers, members of city councils and diplomats. The mention of this, we find, for example, in Pete Schumacher «Die Zeiss Punktal Story»
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