My Vintage Glasses: Part 2

My Vintage Glasses

Please try to ignore the bags under my eyes!

My most incredible, Lady Gaga-esque ProDesign Denmark frames. An absolute find!

Sunglasses collection

My go-to pair of sunnies

A little obsessed with these Cazal frames

These are RIDICULOUS, I love them desperately! Amazing Harry Potter shape, complete with train track temples!

Neat as a pin vintage Gucci's 

I Found Gallery: Part 2

Another round up of the stunning glasses at the I Found Gallery Etsy store. You can see Part 1 here, and I have to warn you, there are many more parts to come!

Antique Gold Filled Vintage Eyeglasses Round Copper Colour with Gold Lens Frames 1920s - 1930s Rare

RARE Round lens Antique eyeglass Copper and Gold detail,1920s 30s ,these are very special and rare! FRAMES In excellent original condition,some minor ageing on gold wire stunning wearable pair!

12k Gold Filled Cateye 1950s Eyeglasses. Bausch and Lomb brand

Coppery Engraved 1950S Bausch and Lomb cateye frames. Sooo beautiful and in great condition! 12k gold filled.

Super Geek Safety Eyeglasses 1960s. Side screens to stop flying bullets

Very cool vintage eyeglasses frames. Safety glasses wide side screens

Stunning Vintage Oliver Peoples Tortoiseshell Eyeglasses, Cielo BCH 362

 Wow! Rare style designer Oliver Peoples Tortoiseshell Eyeglass Frames. Excellent Condition! Model number is Cielo BCH-362

1980s - 1990s Turquoise and Purple Vintage Women's Eyeglasses

Beautiful Marbled Turquoise and Purple 1980S - 1990s eyeglass frames, excellent condition.

Amor France, Rare 1950s Rhinestone Gold Filled Eyeglasses, Stunning

Unusual and Rare pair of early 1950s eyeglasses. Made in France Amor Brand! The colour is black and the condition is near perfect.

Womens 1950s Gold Filled Eyeglasses Tortoiseshell

1950s Fantastic pair of unisex horn rimmed eyeglasses. The tortoiseshell frames are sweet, the metal is stamped 12k gold filled.

Hipster Blue Eyeglasses Vintage 1980s Large Lens Marbled Blue and Black

Great pair of high quality Silhouette brand 1980S eyeglasses, Made in Taiwan. 

Rare Style Cat Eye 1950s Eyeglasses

Gorgeous and rare 1950s cat eye eyeglasses frames. Condition is excellent! 

Rare Vintage Bamboo Style Eyeglasses by Victory. New Old Stock, unused.

Wow rare style! Bamboo style eyeglass frames. Excellent condition! Made in USA by Victory, stunning rare pair of super cool and very unusual to see the bamboo with green frames!

I Found Gallery: Part 1

I Found Gallery on Etsy has one of the largest and most covetable vintage eyewear collection I've come accross. I'm...completely dumfounded at the pages and pages of stunning stuff they're selling. I have this ritual where I hide my credit card whenever I browse their pages, and make a distinct effort to not be in the same room as my housemates who inevitably coo "oooo, that would look amazing on you!". Because they would look amazing on me, dammit, but how on this earth could I just pick one pair??

Rare model 623 Cazal Tortoiseshell Eyeglass Frames. 1980s. Western Germany. Mint condition.

Hip Hop - scene glasses by Cazal from the 80s, worn by Darren "Buffy" Robinson of the Fat Boys.

Massive synthetic Tortoiseshell frame with golden appliqué.

Christian Dior Monsieur Aviator Eyeglasses 1980s, Style 2300, New Old Stock

New Vintage pair of Christian Dior Monsieur aviator eyeglasses with original shop lenses intact. Style number 2300 by Optyl, Made in Germany, 1980s

Rare smaller size 1950s Cateye Inlayed Eyeglasses, Stunning Detail

Unusual and rare pair of early 1950s eyeglasses. Tony Ray brand. The colour is black with layered clear and the condition is great with only minor vintage wear.

Anne Klein Tortoiseshell Designer Eyeglasses Made in Hong Kong, Vintage 1980s - 1990s

Really Amazing pair of multi-colored tortoiseshell Anne Klein eyeglass frames, women's 1980s - 1990s MINT!!

Excellent condition. beautiful pair!

Jean La Font Designer Optical Op Art Vintage Eyeglasses Round Lens, Paris France

Wow, rare style designer Jean La Font of Paris, France eyeglass frames. Excellent condition!

Rare 1950s Black Cat Eyeglasses, Universal Optical Co. USA

Rare universal optical co. ,1950S Catseye Eyeglasses.

1950s Catseye Eyeglasses Pearlized Grey Tones

1950S Eyeglasses. The Color is pearl grey tone and the condition is great, only wear on the inside of the arms, not at all noticeable when wearing.

Hollywood Vintage Dior 2289 Iconic Design 1980s Large Lens Designer Eyeglasses

Vintage Christian Dior, style 2289. Worn by Famous actresses. Eyeglasses Made in Austria. Mint Condition CIRCA 1980s 

1950s Beautiful Cateye Browline Eyeglasses Marine brand USA

Classic and very Cool, Marine Brand Cat eye Optical glasses! Lenses were prescription ,overall excellent condition.  Minimal signs of vintage wear, 9 out of 10!

Men's 1950's Clubmaster style Eyeglasses 12K Gold Filled Bausch and Lomb iconic optical glasses

Bausch and Lomb original 1950S 12 k gold filled eyeglass frames! Black and Silver (White Gold Filled) color.

Meghan Collinson for Vogue Russia

I adore everything about these images. Meghan Collinson is stunning, the glasses are spec-tacular, and the house looks like a 50's dreamland. Gosh, I wish I had those curls too!

My Vintage Sunglass Collection

I'm obsessed with glasses. BIG SURPRISE I'm also obsessed with sunglasses. Crazy, huh? But my favourite combo of all is anything glasses + anything vintage. DOUBLY OBSESSED (that's a thing, yeah?)

So, every time I wander into a vintage or op shop, I make a bee-line for the awkward jumble of crappy glasses stashed undoubtedly in a cheap, rattan container on the bench. After rifling through the broken service station sunnies, over-the-counter reading glasses and cheap Ray-Ban knock offs, sometimes I strike pure gold in the form of some beautifully preserved vintage frames!

I've had a delve through my collection and bought out my finest retro pieces to showcase here. This is part 1 in what will probably be a 3 part series (yup, I've got that many!). I've kept it to sunglasses only for now, but I have a ton of prescription specs to bring out too. Look forward to that, but in the meantime, enjoy!

Check out the original Ray-Bans on the left - they aren't in the best shape, but considering their age, they're holding on great! 

These are an incredible pair of Gail Spence Design for Pro Design specs, made in Denmark. I don't think they're that old - the quality of them is impeccable - but they're at least old enough that someone would give them away. I've never seen another pair quite like them, complete show-stoppers!

These are Steppers, Made in Germany. Pretty retro - the fit of the temple is crazy weird. and they completely munch my face. Love!

Oh look! It's me! Looking super-duper attractive in a distinctly 80's number!
These guys are branded "Sign by Sarroff", which I've never heard off. I'm not convinced on the quality of the plastic - it's overly glossy and light - so I think these may have just been a cheap, fun pair.

Speaking of cheap and fun, this is the cheapest and funnest pair I've ever seen! They're a little too small for my face, so they look wicked spesh when I wear them (which, unfortunately for you guys, I'm not doing today!). Love the green face and the purple temples, and who can resist those paint-speckle freckles?

OOOOOOO, me again! Don't judge my awkward face, I spent the morning in hospital having boring tests, so I was tired and missing blood! Fun times. At least the fulli sick specs can hide my tired little eyes! This lovely pair says "TREND" on one temple and "MADE IN ITALY" on the other. Hmmm. Can't decide if cheap or just badly named...either way, what's not to love about a big, leopard-print cat's eye?