Got a new pair of glasses...

[shamus]

Yes, you certainly don't see scenes anymore like the one in The Big Sleep, where Marlowe meets the book shop girl (of course she must work with books if she's wearing glasses!) and he asks if she must wear her glasses before he shows any interest in her. Then she does that classic "sexy librarian" thing, taking off her glasses and shaking out her hair, and lo and behold! Marlowe can finally see that she's pretty!

Oddly in that scene of The Big Sleep, Marlowe is actually playing a gay man. As Geiger's book store is a porno exchange. So I guess a girl in glasses can change a man...

 

[The Wolf]

shamus, I think the bookstore where Marlowe flirts with the girl(Dorothy Malone?) is across the street from Geiger's so he can watch the owner.

Miss Henline, "How to Marry a Millionaire" has fun with Marilyn Monroe's character not wearing her glasses and running into things. Unlike most movies the moral was she should wear her glasses and she'll find Mr. Right.

 

[airfrogusmc]

Lauren I think those specs look great on you. You know how to class up a pair of glasses! Outstanding look...

 

[Sefton]

Oddly in that scene of The Big Sleep, Marlowe is actually playing a gay man. As Geiger's book store is a porno exchange. So I guess a girl in glasses can change a man...

I assume you're refering to the novel? (I haven't read it yet). What exactly is a porno exchange?

 

[shamus]

shamus, I think the bookstore where Marlowe flirts with the girl(Dorothy Malone?) is across the street from Geiger's so he can watch the owner.

I think you're right, It's been a few years since I watched the film. But Geiger ran a rare bookstore, so I guess it was two book stores across the street from one another.

What I refered to a "porno exchange" was back then the porn industry (in this case, gay porn) was different than today. You'd "rent" your porn and then return it when your done with it.

Geiger ran one these with the front of a rare book store.

And trivia for you... Geiger translate in yidish as a man who keeps a younger man. There are some gay references in 40's films if you know what they're talking about, because the books they were using to make the films were quite harsh and the directors couldn't put that on the silver screen in those days.

Now enough about this and back to eyeglasses.

 

[Lauren]

Thanks, everyone for the lovely compliments. I'm glad you like my glasses

 

[Hondo]

Lauren Henline (or can I call you Ms honey?) You look smashing, and from another thread you do resemble Audrey Hepburn, I wear myself wire rim glasses, they are cool for us oldies :cheers1:

 

[Bill O'Rights]

I must say (and this is my first post, by the way) those glasses...on that face...are a delightful combination. Simply lovely.

 

[Barbigirl]

I paid a thousand dollars an eye, and financed it. I paid $50 a month for a couple years till it was paid off. Now it's down to about $700 an eye. Most eye doctors have some kind of financing plan.

You might need to wait a couple years till your prescription stops changing.

I had lasik done in January '05 and my Mr. had it done in August. We both love it after over 20 years each of wearing glasses. Also found it to be affordable in our area considering how many office visits it included.

 

[Ken]

Lauren those glasses look great. Makes you look very executive and elegant.

Ken

 

[Gray Ghost]

Wonder Woman

And I love them! I have another vintage pair on the way... contacts are such a pain I figured I should invest in vintage eyewear.

Miss Lauren,

Those glasses look very nice on you. When I saw them, my first impression was Linda Carter as Diana on Wonder Woman. Very Classy.

Daniel, you are a lucky man.:cheers1:

GG

 

[John in Covina]

Fantastic!

Your new glasses picture is one of those great movie and TV ploys, cute but studious, intelectual (brainy) women with glasses on become classic beauty & femme fatale with glasses off!

Congrats on the new specs. Last time I had to go to the place in Sears and all they had to pick from in frames looked like glasses at the "lost and found" in an orphanage that were never picked up.


"You know how to whistle, don't you? Just pucker your lips and blow."

warmest regards

 

[Dis]

Very classy! That style with the coating on the rims is called Zylo.

I recently discovered that I wasn't going to get any younger and I'm old enough to be appalled at the face that looks back at me in the mirror. I decided to wear what I like regardless of popular fashion and vintage has always appealed to me. As part of my plan to age gracefully I got me a pair of perfectly round glasses off of ebay. They are refurbished from the 20s-30s. They are plain silver with the cable temples and nose saddle. The lenses are kinda small too. I had my optician put my prescription in them and they turned out fabulous. I liked them so well that I got a couple of backup pairs in case they break. My face isn't as pretty as yours but still they're the best looking on me of any glasses I have ever owned. I making my own fashion statement with them.

Incidentally, I wear my hair pulled back like that too. It seems to go with the glasses.

 

[Powerhouse]

Neat Specs!

There is nothing that finishes off the vintage look like a pair of vintage specs. I don't wear anything but originals, I do have new lenses in them though. Besides looking great, they usually only cost about $10. What's not to love?