Summer is upon us!
You know what that means.
Beaches, BBQ’s and picnics, all whilst decked out in your favorite shades.
For the guys, we’re loving the 70’s look pulled off here by Vincent Cassel in his film Public enemy Nr. 1 (Watch it, it’s amazing.)
As for the gals, any pair of cat eyes can be the perfect summer accessory, Kelly Osbourne seen here rocking some great vintage sunglasses.
This old glasses ad is so beautiful.
There’s something about the simplicity, so clean. No extra unneeded gimmicks.
It may be 50 years old, but, it feels fresh. The use of color just pops out, without being obnoxious.
It shows what a pair of cat eyes can do for your face.
I love vintage accessories because I love the past.
I love that my glasses have a history.
I love that forty or fifty years ago someone crafted it. It wasn’t rolled out on someone assembly line.
I imagine the previous owner sitting in their living room reading a book, something about young love. Maybe even a fireplace, sipping a tea.
My glasses snuggly resting on their content face.
And that makes me happy.
Horn-rimmed glasses were one of the first style of eyeglasses to become a popular fashion item, after comedian Harold Lloyd began wearing a round pair in his films.The glasses have enjoyed various periods of popularity throughout the 20th century, being considered especially fashionable in the early 1900s and in the 1950s-1960s in particular. The style enjoyed a renaissance in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, from the television series Mad Men. They’re also Johnny Depp’s favorite!
Teddy Roosevelt. Need I say more? With his classic Pince nez he is an American legend.
Here’s a quick story about him.
While Roosevelt was campaigning in Wisconsin on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank shot him, the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for 90 minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
His glasses saved his life, pretty cool we thinks!
I’m not sure why Amelia Earhart has decided to make an appearance in my brain, but she has. Perhaps, it’s this spring weather giving me the travel itch.
I’ve digressed. Turns out, Amelia is even cooler than I remember, she is said to have been a tomboy, and liked to get down and dirty. Her family relocated a few times during her early years which may account for her free spiritedness. She served as a nurse caring for wounded pilots during World War One. Two years later she took her first airplane ride, ”by the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground,” she said, “I knew I had to fly.” Thereafter she saved up $1,000 ($30,000 in today’s currency) to pay for flying lessons.
Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She also set a world record for female pilots. On May 15, 1923, Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot’s license.
We can’t forget how importent safety goggles were for pilots protecting their eyes from wind and dust.
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I headed over to my favorite theater to watch The Artist a few weeks ago. Growing up with classics like Singing In The Rain, and Charlie Chaplin. I wondered, could someone in 2012 pull off a silent film? Could I fall in love with the characters like I did as a child?
I guess they can make them like they used to! Contrary to our current films that are so piled with special effects and loudness it can leave you deaf and half blind. The artist is simple, moving, and beautiful. Virtually silent, occasional lines of dialogue printed on intertitle cards. It tells a story, a very human story that moves you on the platform of raw, authentic emotion, no HD 3D to get in the way.
The artist may not have color, but to me, it shone bright.
I was just hoping to spot some cool vintage specs!
Men, what the hell happened?
When did shark hunting bare handed go out of style? When did dressing like Justin Bieber become okay?
Here’s a nod of acknowledgment to all the men fighting the good fashion fight. Those gentlemen who refused to be bullied by bad taste, and big media telling them what they should wear, and how they should wear it.
We salute the James Dean’s of the world. Men who can roll out of their apartments in a pair of horn rimmed specs, a wrinkled suit, and an unstoppable attitude .
Waking up with a chocolate hangover got me a’thinkin. Why do we need to set aside a day in our calendar to show our love for that special person in our lives?
Don’t get me wrong, in nooo way am I objecting to wine and chocolate. But, maybe we need to have a Valentine’s Day weekly, or monthly..
It’s easy to stop appreciating just how much our better halves mean to us.
So whadya say? When we wake up every morning over the next few weeks let’s put on our glasses, and smile at that shape still blissfully slumbering and hogging the blanket.
