Through Dark Glasses
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, June 14.
Princess Grace of Monaco wears them with a ball dress at night Vivien Leigh, swathed in mink, wears them at London Airport in March. Lord Snowdon wears them round London in the rain; and, says a “Daily Express” writer, “eight of 26 passengers on the lower deck of my rush-hour bus gazed at leafy London through dark green, pale amber, purple and coal black lenses of fashion’s biggest fad—dark glasses.”
The writer said that tinted glasses have been manufactured in Britain since the 1870’s, but it was not until the 1960’s that the craze reached big business proportions.
It is estimated that more than 2,500,000 pairs will change hands this year.
One manufacturer of spectacle frames had only 10 shapes in his range 10 years ago. Today he sells 30 different shapes, ranging from blunt bamboo frames to exotically-coloured fantasies which retail at 49s 6d.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29851, 18 June 1962, Page 2
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