Firstly my apologies for not posting as much of late. I’ve been busy working on something. I’ve also been thinking about the WWI Centennial. 100 years ago, when the war broke out the populace...
In our PREVIOUS POST we covered WWI gas masks. They posed a dilemma for soldiers wearing eyeglasses. The first gas masks were essentially flannel bags with mica lenses. The fit over glasses was often...
100 years is not as long as it might seem. It was only a couple years ago the last veteran of the The Great War passed away. He was Claude Choules (3 March 1901...
The familiar WWII era AN6531 Comfort Cable aviator sunglasses were still issued in relatively unchanged form long after V-J day. With darker lenses than the 1941 originals they would become known as Type G-2...
Contractors made an enormous amount of materials for the U.S. Army and Navy during WWII. According to American Optical’s website: “Between 1943 and 1944, a total of 10 million goggles frames, 5 million pairs...
I can’t add anything to this Wikipedia entry: “GI glasses are eyeglasses issued by the American military to its service members. Dysphemisms for them include the most common birth control glasses and variants. At...
Moss Lipow has been variously referred to in media as "The Genius of Eyewear Design" and "The Most Talked About Eyewear Designer in Decades". His custom work has been worn by celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Elton John, the Olsens, M.I.A. and more. These include some of the costliest and most elaborate pieces of eyewear ever.
He curated and collected 3000 vintage and antique pieces spanning five centuries for his acclaimed definitive history of the medium "Eyewear", recently published by Taschen.
His eponymous line of eyewear is sold worldwide.
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