A KING IN GOGGLES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 20

A KING IN GOGGLES

V FASHION FOB HOBN-EIMMED '.''• ; SPECTACLES.'. Horn-rini spectacles of the kind comedianß in Europe use to satirise the complete American, have at last climbed ,to the pinn'aqle of approval among the '■"arbiters of good form (says the "New 'York Timos"). Albert, King of the .. Belgians, has been seen publicly wear-. 2Jing a. pair. ■•/ . ■■■', y V • '.- ' Af Photographs'of him.'with them have, "gone around ; the world, particularly the photographs of his day of making records at St.: Moritz. His first record of the day'received the most attention: Ho was the first reigning monarch to go down tk. Vinous toboggan slide. Incidentally, he »<most made even bigger new.; that d*v, for the toboggan was nearly.upset. The second record was n>ade at the same time, and might '$2rve been a graceful gesture to America if it had been a conscious one: He wore his hornrimmed spectacles on his first ride down, thereby becoming, so far as is' known, the; first person- in the world to wear them down that slide. This rise of horn-rimmed spectacles from the depths of ridicule to this peak where ridicule dares not go has been mado in a. comparatively few years. Horn rims, of course, though not so new nor'fso American as has been supposed, were popularised by some queer J,chance by American opticians, and as ],ite as fifteen years ago required a sturdy bravery on the part of their wearers. At that time, to be seen in them was a flagrant offence, at least to the sensibilities of youth. One President of a far-Western college who dared to be seen on his campus with a pair, found himself confronted in the college chapel one morning with two pews full of young innocents gazing soberly back :it him through his newstylo spcctiicles, except that theirs had the added goggle effect of dark yellow glass.