{"id":31670,"date":"2011-05-23T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=31670"},"modified":"2011-05-23T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:23:00","slug":"allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-here-they-are-looking-at-you-eyeglass-holder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-here-they-are-looking-at-you-eyeglass-holder-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis\u2019 Kitsch O\u2019 The Day \u2013 “Here They Are Looking At You” Eyeglass Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

Because I spend about 80% of my day squinting at screens of various sizes and working by the glare of them at night, eyeglasses have been a permanent part of my face for years. This never bothered me as I view these artifacts as part of the self-expression arsenal, equal status if not more to any piece of clothing, shoe or hairstyle used to distinguish oneself in the world. As a consequence, only having one pair of glasses never worked for me.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I like to pick a precision match with whatever I have on, the same way that socks always matter but are given so little attention by most people.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

And those are only my red\/orange shades.\u00a0I also like glass holders because I don’t want to take up half my life searching for a pair I’ve laid down without any thought to remembering where that is. So I have a variety of vintage eyeglass holders scattered around for easy pickings.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

The phrase “Here They Are Looking At You” was apparently very popular among eyeglass holder manufacturers.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Another type of eyeglass holder lets the glasses swing from wherever you choose to pierce some fabric.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

But I love the one I’ve featured today because the colors are so vibrant,…<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

… and it’s a travel souvenir,…<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

…and it looks very much like a shop project. Judging from the bottom, maybe the city of Niantic planned a little event where all the citizens took part in a night of sawing and gluing.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Over the weekend I had to go to LA Eyeworks, where I’ve gotten all my glasses since the early 1980s, to pick up a new prescription.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I went with Prudence Fenton, who also took some specs on a test run.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

LA Eyeworks makes great frames for very distinctive faces.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

And I collect eyeglass holders for very distinctive glasses, all of which are better to see my morning coffee with.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because I spend about 80% of my day squinting at screens of various sizes and working by the glare of them at night, eyeglasses have been a permanent part of my face for years. This never bothered me as I view these artifacts as part of the self-expression arsenal, equal status if not more to … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,1051,181,87,193,911],"tags":[61,2698,2693,2696,2699,3232,3245,2697,2007],"class_list":["post-31670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-fashion","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-place","tag-allee-willis","tag-eyeglass-holder","tag-here-they-are-looking-at-you","tag-here-they-are-looking-at-you-eyeglass","tag-here-they-are-looking-at-you-glass","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-la-eyeworks","tag-prudence-fenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}