Vintage Sunglasses

[Tomasso]

Tortoise Shell?

Just a guess. Best to wait for our erudite members to opine.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Where else???.....

Go to eBay and type in 'vintage sunglasses mens' and see what pops up! I've had pretty good success out there myself!

-dixon cannon

 

[DronesDodz]

Do they look different from todays shades?

 

[CharlieH.]

You could get ones like Claude Rains':

Gad, I love that picture....

 

[Matthew Dalton]

I'd love a pair like those.

 

[carebear]

About as "vintage" as popped up when I did it were aviators and Wayfarers, both black and tortoise shell. Basically 40's and 50's, nothing earlier.

I'm thinking any full wire frame with roundish lenses (green or brown?) would probably not be too inaccurate.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

As Tomasso mentioned above, most of the vintage (30's-40's) sunglasses I've seen are tortoise and usually with green lenses, and the Ray-Ban Aviator style were pretty popular as well.

 

[DronesDodz]

Thanks everybody, I will keep my eyes open on ebay the next couple days.
Christoph

 

[matei]

The ones that Johnny Depp wears often in public look pretty cool, and appear to be vintage as well.

They're similar to the ones Bogart wears in "The Big Sleep" (when he enters the bookshop).

I'd like to find a pair of those.

 

[DronesDodz]

I agree his glasses are pretty cool! I have looked on ebay and found a pair that looked very close, unfortunately got outbid maybe next time...

 

[funneman]

You could get ones like Claude Rains':

Gad, I love that picture....

This is a little off topic...but look at this picture for a minute. Talk about a great actor. Look at how he manages to convey rage and arrogance with his face completly hidden and his eye obscured. I'd like to see Tom Cruise do that!

 

[herringbonekid]

they were typically round in the 30s with frames of tortoiseshell, yellow, clear, blue, brown etc.
then they went off-round and more oblong as the 40s progressed (these are hard to find).
then into the classic James Dean shape of the 50s which looks pretty much like the shape mentioned above that Johnny Depp wears.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

I'd like to see Tom Cruise do that!

Do what, turn invisible? Or better still, disappear altogether? Me too. lol

 

[Willi_Goat]

Not shades, but I did pick these up the other night.

 

[DronesDodz]

Very nice glasses willi

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

I don't know too much about mens styles, but I was at a vintage shoppe the other day speaking with a gentleman who works there and is quite knowledeable. He just picked up a pair of shades and the box they came in was from the mid-30's. They looked exactly like aviators, except the lenses weren't as round. I think Ray Ban does make a pair of their aviators like this. They almost looked square, but they weren't, very hard to explain. They did have the bar across the top, it was gold not pink plastic like some of the aviators made today. Hope this is a little helpful.

 

[funneman]

Do what, turn invisible? Or better still, disappear altogether? Me too. lol

Too late, Paramount already took care of that!

http://www1.wsvn.com/news/articles/entertainment/MI27638/

 

[Mr. Rover]

My favorite look is the 20's-30's circular tortoise shell sunglasses. I love aviators but I can't pull them off for the life of me without looking like a traffic cop.
I believe Daniel Riser had a bunch of plastic deadstock sunglasses.
Lauren, do you still have the pictures from the first "Show us your suits" thread? I think he was wearing the glasses in his "televangelist" white suit.

 

[Twitch]

I wear blue-blockers in the shape of Jack Nicholson's Wayfarers.

 

[Feraud]

I wear blue-blockers in the shape of Jack Nicholson's Wayfarers.

Those are great! I bought the same exact pair of Wayfarer blue blocker sunglasses in the 80's. I loved those shades and wore 'em everywhere for years. One day while stepping off a NYC elevated train they slipped out of my pocket and fell in between the train and the platform! I rushed down the stairs to recover them only to find they had been crushed by a passing car.