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Nancy N. Schiffer

Eyeglass Retrpective: Where Fashion Meets Science

Eyeglass Retrpective: Where Fashion Meets Science

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This book explores vintage eyewear design, featuring over 600 color photos and explaining different styles from the seventeenth century to the present, with price estimates. It highlights how eyeglass design has evolved to reflect fashion and scientific investigation, with examples of high-profile entertainers promoting designs.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2022
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd


Vintage eyewear collecting has gained popularity, and this book offers an overview of identifying and dating these items. Eyeglass design has evolved to reflect both popular fashion and scientific investigation, with frames and lenses changing to provide more comfortable and practical styles. In the mid-twentieth century, eyeglass makers sought high-profile entertainers to wear their designs, and advertising played a crucial role in promoting their products. Over 600 color photos and an engaging text showcase eyewear from the seventeenth century to the present, including bifocals, monocles, pince-nez, fanciful, and safety styles of eyeglasses and sunglasses, along with price estimates.

Weight: 1258g
Dimension: 289 x 226 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780764310416

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