Glasses can be an aid to beauty

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32789, 14 December 1971, Page 7

Glasses can be an aid to beauty

(By

NORMAN HARTNELL)

LONDON. If your optician says you need glasses, you might as well make the best of it. The fact is that, with the wide range of styles, colours, and shapes of spectacle frames these days, glasses can be a most attractive fashion accessory —as long as they suit your face. If you are one of those lucky types with an oval face, you can wear any type of frame. As a general rule, however, shallow frames (suit short faces, and deep frames long faces. | You should always choose

spectacles that follow the shape of your eyebrows, and ensure that the bridge of the frame sits snugly. If you have close-set eyes, a colourless bridge helps to add width. Two other points you should bear in mind are your hairstyle and your eye makeup. A heavy fringe is not a good idea for spectacle wearers, but a light feathery fringe is ideal. Eyebrows should always be tidily shaped, and you may need to adapt your eye make-up. If you are shortsighted, the lenses tend to diminish the apparent size of your eyes; if you are longsighted, they tend to enlarge it. So make up accordingly.