Why Buy Vintage Eye Glasses?
We shop vintage because we have edge. We are farsighted dressers (pun?) and creative types who can see beyond what mainstream culture lays out on a silver platter. We shop vintage to be unique and individual and to represent ourselves to the world. Any vintage shopper understands that there are few things as maddening as stepping out your door and passing three people on the street who are wearing the same thing as you.
Glasses Make The Person
Eye Glasses are another quirk on a face. Like a freckle or dimple, eyeglasses become defining characteristics on one’s face. Cat eye glasses can create a mysterious and creative optical (again?) illusion. eyeglasses become an expression of self. Think of John Lennon and Gandhi in their Windsor specs. No one can ever genuinely recreate those cultural icons, no matter how many factory made Windsor spectacles are produced, because the bridge probably isn’t covered with tortoise celluloid. It’s time to be you with a pair of vintage eyeglasses.
Only The Beautiful Survives
We love vintage for its classic beauty and we like to think of ourselves as equally timeless and beautiful. That’s how it stays vintage, the beautiful stuff survives, while the lesser cloth fads into the dust. We invest in tailors and alterations for things that are meaningful and beautiful, and eventually we pass them on to our children, who pass it onto to theirs, who end up selling to some second hand shop in order to get money for their iPAD, where it is picked up by a fashion conscious twenty-something, who rocks it at a Soho loft party of the year. Fashion is circular, old things become new again to someone else, only because it’s beautiful enough to stand the test of time.
Tell A Story
Vintage shoppers are also attracted to items that have lived life, that tell a story. We are more likely to wear a less awesomely tailored combat jacket for its hand-stitched patches of honor than one that is machine produced. We would take the smell of attic and must over sterile factory mediocrity. Why? Because there is a story. When someone asks where you got those vintage glasses from, you get to say that these Pince Nez frames are the last pair ever made. When your friend quickly responds that they’re pretty sure they saw them at Urban Outfitters, you can confidently say that’s impossible, because “real” Prince Nez haven’t been made since the 20s. Shop vintage and tell your story.
Crafted Quality
Enough with fast food fashion. Apparel of the yesteryear was made with superior expertise, binding, and flourishes you won't find on today's garments and accessories. Vintage fashion was designed to last, each item carefully crafted with a greater attention paid to detail in the materials, patterns, textures, stitching, etc. It was made to be passed on, to be enjoyed over and over again. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to.