New Designs For Spectacles
Dorothy Parker’s couplet, “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses,” has probably been responsible for innumerable myopic squints and headaches, says the “Sunday Times.” But as more and more people become astigmatically aware, the designers of spectacles are exerting them-, selves to make spectacles becom-
The London optical industry in collaboration with two members of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers. Ronald Paterson and Michael, recently displayed their ingenuity in coping with the wearable lens.
• Some of the designs may have gone a bit too far, but the principle of lifting the nose bridge, varying the side pieces and, in particular, enlarging the lenses, are all to the good.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28183, 23 January 1957, Page 2
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