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Category Archives: Panto
Can you believe the movie Hook is now twenty years old? Happening upon it recently we noticed that the eyewear appears to have been supplied by Anglo American Optical. Take a look at the various round frames on a grown … Continue reading
This week’s Frame of the Week is the Black Eyewear Bix. Dedicated to cornetist, pianist and composer Bix Beiderbecke this panto frame with a key hole bridge was one of our first designs for Black Eyewear. Here is the man … Continue reading
That’s right, the comedian Miranda Hart plays Chummy on BBC One’s new drama Call The Midwife. The first episode drew viewing figures of over 8 million. The series is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth and is set in … Continue reading
Going to the cinema this evening? Everyone is talking about The Iron Lady, a biopic of Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep. Jim Broadbent plays her husband Denis Thatcher (Harry Lloyd as a young Denis) and is featured in some fantastic … Continue reading
Both Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, creators of the new film version of the classic Tintin comic book adventures, wear classic specs as seen below. Favouring the traditional metal round and panto shapes they even put one of their characters … Continue reading
The Telegraph’s I Spied Fashion Editor Aurelia Donaldson asks: ‘What would Anne Hathaway wear? Stuck for inspiration? Here’s what we think girl next door Anne Hathaway would add to her wardrobe.’ She recommends that the girl next door now starring … Continue reading
The novel One Day was an acclaimed success. A must read, the 2009 book written by David Nicholls has been turned into a film of the same name starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgiss. Much anticipated the movie will be … Continue reading
Photorealist painter, photographer and specs wearer Chuck Close has made some iconic large-scale images during his career. Most of his early works are portraits of family and friends. Close has trouble recognising faces and therefore created large portraits to … Continue reading
Panto refers to the shape of glasses which we often associate with the NHS of the 1950s and 60s. The term panto comes from the word pantoscopic which literally means seeing everything or wide view. These frames, a combination of … Continue reading
Are Panto Sunglasses like these the newest craze in eyewear? Celebs such as Ellie Goulding and Eliza Doolittle think so. They have been spotted out and about in these classic 1950s style sunnies.
