I can’t tell you how many pairs of eyeglasses I’ve lost through the years. Easily in the hundreds as in addition to any prescription ones I may have had – during one insane year when Color Purple opened on Broadway I had 57 pairs with my current prescription – I also have always collected vintage frames and was always leaving them places, sitting on them or finding them years later in the pocket of a jacket I outgrew either in size or taste.
Before LaLoop, which I’ve worn around my neck for the last seven or eight years and which saved so many pairs I can’t tell you, I used to pick up these vintage eyeglass holder pins whenever I saw them. Tons of them were in the shape of vintage glasses, owls or little hands.
Other than a few shattered lenses or broken side arms when someone hugged me too tight this particular pin should receive a Lifeguard award for saving so many spectacles’ lives.
Glasses themselves: LA Eyeworks
StoryTroy
Cool! Any devices that’ll keep me from forgetting my sunglasses until I’m 40 miles from home, squinting into the sun and wondering why I left my shades at home?
Ginger
Oooh…. I love the sparkles on these. Mine don’t have them.
Heidi Ehrenreich
I love these. So practical, so chic, so kitchy
Nessa
Oh, I have never seen one of these! I want one! I’ll be on the lookout from now on.
Ginger
Nessa… look what I just found:
http://smarteyes2.stores.yahoo.net/specpins.html
Allee
Wow, Ginger, you hit the motherlode!