Vintage style sunglasses. Original accessories for your party.

Vintage style takes us into the era of no earlier than 30 years and not later than 60 years ago. Like a fine wine (translated from fr. Vintage has exactly this value), which over time becomes a rich flavor and great value. Fashionable clothing and accessories in a vintage style acquired veneer of sophistication and originality in modern times.

Why should I consider buying sunglasses in vintage frame?

Stylish. For example, for a man perfectly will fit Ray-Ban sunglasses, made of titanium, which remembers the shape.

Flirtatiously. Women who wear "cat eye" sunglasses as a supplement look mannered, elegant and feminine. Combining with bright makeup and a stylish haircut, she looks playful and seductive.

Extravagantly. The shades in the shape of "drops" or "cat's eye" can easily pull down  the adopted standards.

Qualitatively. Points in the vintage style is usually made of plastic, titanium, wood or metal.

Extraordinarily. Frames "from the past" require a stylish change from its owner, so you will not like before.

And, of course, glasses vintage style - this is a profitable focus on charisma, mischievous humor and impeccable taste.

Eyeglasses innovations thirtieth

However, the 1930s are interesting to us not only a eyeglasses and round frames, is going through of today, by the way, the real boom in popularity. At this time appeared on the market and a new stylish eyeglasses, which, like their predecessors, were completely rounded at the bottom and a flat, nearly oval at the top, so that their upper limit is below the eyebrows. Upholders of eyeglasses with big round light openings that decision seemed far more successful with both aesthetic and practical point of view: the contact of prescription lenses with an eyebrows caused contamination of the latter, which could even lead to a deterioration of sight.

In 1932 a new form of eyeglasses, one of the names which can be translated from German as "Eyeglasses, providing a complete overview", was released by the Carl Zeiss company and first patented by them. In addition to the form of light openings these eyeglasses differ by a number of advantages: temples were attached to the frame is not in the middle, as it were, a little below the upper rim, which does not impede the lateral review; temples, designed taking into account the anatomy of the ears have become more comfortable; to replace the nose bridge, made in the form of a saddle, tightly fit to the nose and often causes pain, came mobile nose pad, fixed with metal threads. Nose pads, that still are used to fix most metal frames, represented of a pincushion type, rounded plate covered with a flesh-colored celluloid. Without exaggeration we can say that the emergence of "frames, providing a complete overview," was not only a significant milestone in the history of Carl Zeiss, was selecting the development and manufacture of eyeglass frames in a separate area of its activities, but also heralded a new era of fashion eyewear. (Today the manufacturer of glasses and prescription lens Zeiss is a German company Ferdinand Menrad Group)

As an aside, I would like to note that to the accessories in the thirties, has received considerable attention. In an era of economic crisis, it was the least expensive item of expenditure for those who wish to get a newness in its appearance. With the improvement of the appearance of the eyeglasses frames have also begun to acquire the character of the decoration. In the early decades of the Americas to Europe came the fashion for gold-colored eyeglasses, perfectly harmonizing with the color of the skin. For the first time this color has appeared in an assortment of frames by Bausch & Lomb - one of the major newsmakers in the industry of those days where it is marked as Arista Natural Gold. Soon, delicate golden eyeglasses can be purchased from European manufacturers. So, for example, already in 1931 they were present in the fashion line eyeglasses with prescription lens by the German company Menrad.
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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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The great icon of sunglasses fashion.

In 1927, together with the first sound films (talkies) began a new era of cinema, which was then dubbed the Golden Age of Hollywood (The Golden Age of Hollywood lasted until the end of 1950). And although it is in the thirties years accounts the heyday of Hollywood industry for the production of film stars, the most vivid symbols of the era, in our opinion, was two of them: Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. Theirs remembered not only as an outstanding actress, but as the great fashion icons of the time. Their hair, makeup, models, sunglasses, costumes instantly became a role model.

Greta Garbo - one of the most stylish and mysterious women a centure. It was she who coined the "trench", still presented in the fashionable wardrobe, wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses, which did not disregard for much of his long life (Greta Garbo died in 1990 at the age of 85 years).  Since the beginning of his film career in his native Sweden and up to 36 years of age she was wearing sunglasses, to conquer the world. But since then, as at the peak of popularity suddenly and without any apparent reason, she left the cinema, she tried to hide behind from own popularity behind the dark lenses of sunglasses. Yet in vain: sunglasses became only part of the legend of her ... "Garbo hid her face. But her divine face can not be hidden behind a dark lens of shades and a high collar" - wrote the French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin (Albarello, A. For your eyes, only? Eyewear from A to Z / Alessandra Albarello, Francesca Joppolo. Modena : Logos, 2007. P. 77.). In contrast to the Scandinavian Mata Hari, who sincerely wished with the help of sunglasses go unnoticed, many public people followed suit, with opposite intentions: to attract attention. And welcome, I must say, it was effective.

Sunglasses played important role in the life of another star era - Marlene Dietrich too. "You are man with whom I have the most long-term relationships, and with whom I bound up forever" (Albarello, A. For your eyes, only? Eyewear from A to Z. P. 56.) - to whom, do you think, these words were addressed by Marlene? No, not to her boyfriend. They repeated it often to Robert Pinton - her optician, whose shop was located in the 16th, the most respectable, district of Paris. Apparently, you had to be something special to "bind" to a even Dietrich. Indeed, Robert Pinton was not just an optometrist, but also a designer of exclusive sunglasses. "He was working with precious materials such as gold and tortoise shell, and kept a very close relationship with its customers" - says his son, Dominic, who walked in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, and now also creates designer sunglasses. We found the photograph, where Marlene was captured in the thrown over top of a man's suit coat, a hat and sunglasses with round light openings from Robert Pinton, which benefits to supplement the created by Marlin image.
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Eyeglasses in the context of the past era. Elegant 1930.

1930 began with the global crisis. The symbol of fashion in the era crisis was long skirts, which "came down" immediately after the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange. Perhaps the same can be said about the wearing eyewear. Eyeglasses were, if not the symbol, then at least witnessed the era, and you will learn about it from this part of the article.

"Jazz Age ended October 29"

(This phrase is attributed to American writer Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, 1896-1940).)

"Golden twentieth", also called the century of jazz, ended October 29, 1929, in the same ill-fated "Black Tuesday", when on the New York Stock Exchange  Dow Jones and stock prices plummeted catastrophically. Their fall marked the end of a brief financial well-being and the beginning of the Great Depression. (Although the date of the end of the Great Depression in America is 1933, which launched the new economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt, the echoes of the crisis is clearly felt by the end of the thirties.) After a few months after the incident in the stock market an unemployment began to take rampant. If workers are living "paycheck to paycheck," just lost their livelihoods, the middle class in addition to lost work and even their life savings. People are rapidly got impoverished. And was the only one entertainment is available to many, a kind of pill against of depression, which allowed at least for a time to forget the harsh reality and add bright colors in a faded commonness. It was a cinema. In a crisis, it was intended to support the spirit and restore hope and I must say, has successfully coped with this task.

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