period eyepatch?

[freebird]

Hi guys,
I'm curious as to what a vintage eyepatch would look like. I'm blind in one eye, have to wear glasses (need a monacle lol), and have to use a cane due to disability's. Does anyone have any photo's or information on this?
Tony

 

[LizzieMaine]

Here's a great shot of reporter/broadcaster Floyd Gibbons, probably the most famous eyepatch-wearer of the '20s/'30s.

He always wore a white patch, but no doubt they were also available in black.

 

[jake_fink]

Raoul Wlash:

James Joyce:

 

[Lucky Strike]

There's the man in the Hathaway shirt:

C. F. Hathaway Company was most famous for its "man with an eye patch" advertising campaign, which was created by Ogilvy & Mather in 1951. The man who appeared in the ad was Baron George Wrangell, who was a Russian aristocrat with 20/20 vision.

From Time Magazine, 1952:

As soon as the ad appeared in The New Yorker last fall, all eyes were green in Manhattan's ad alley. "The Man in the Hathaway Shirt" depicted a white-shirted, debonair-looking fellow who was given a peculiar air of distinction by a black patch over his right eye. The ad was the inspiration of British-born David Ogilvy, 41, vice president of Manhattan's Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, Inc. He got the idea from pictures of ex-Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who has worn a patch ever since he lost the sight of one eye in a fishing accident. (The man in the ad is Baron George Wrangell, émigré nephew of a White Russian general, whose eyes are perfectly good).

Last week the Advertising Federation of America named Ogilvy its "Young Advertising Man of the Year." This week Ogilvy received a more sincere form of flattery. Manhattan's James McCreery & Co. department store, advertising its "Silf-Skin girdle," depicted a buoyant, smiling young model clad in nothing but a girdle, a halter and an eyepatch.

 

[freebird]

Thank! I appreciate all the help! Although, I do believe I'll leave the halters and girdles to the fairer sex. The one I'm currently wearing was modeled after the one Angelina Jolie wore in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow".

 

[Teacher]

There's the man in the Hathaway shirt:

C. F. Hathaway Company was most famous for its "man with an eye patch" advertising campaign, which was created by Ogilvy & Mather in 1951. The man who appeared in the ad was Baron George Wrangell, who was a Russian aristocrat with 20/20 vision.

From Time Magazine, 1952:

Cool pic. I'd forgotten about those ads. Slight correction, though: he was Belarussian ("White" Russian), not Russian.

 

[David Conwill]

Cool pic. I'd forgotten about those ads. Slight correction, though: he was Belarussian ("White" Russian), not Russian.

Hmm, I think in this context "White" Russian means not one of the Reds. The term was commonly used in the forty or fifty years after the 1917 revolution to identify people who had sided with the Czar or Kerensky.

-Dave

 

[jake_fink]

If the period you want is the dystopian near future (now past), then Snake Plissken might be your man.

 

[Lucky Strike]

Hmm, I think in this context "White" Russian means not one of the Reds. The term was commonly used in the forty or fifty years after the 1917 revolution to identify people who had sided with the Czar or Kerensky.

-Dave

Yes, the von Wrangels were German/Baltic/Swedish/Russian, but kept mostly to the Northern parts of Russia.

 

[DeaconKC]

Don't forget Sammy Davis, Jr. or Moshe Dayan.

 

[Edward]

Always loved the look of an eyepatch. I'd love to have a very slick one like Jolie's, though I'd have to have some subtle grille holes in it for depth perception (it being purely theatrical in my case). Could be a fun look for a photoshoot. The cinematic eyepatch that sticks in my mind most is the one one of the men wears during the party in Holly's apartment in Breakfast at Tiffany's. I love how at first pass in that scene all looks very glamourous, then the second pass exposes all the artifice and ungainly superficiality in it. Eyepatch guy lifts his patch up in the heat of debate and exposes that he has two perfectly good eyes.... lol

Do kids nowadays still wear eyepatches to "cure" a lazy eye? I remember there being several kids with the elastoplast type when I was very young (would have been the late 70s), but I've not seen one for a very long time.