They're antique pince-nez frames, fitted with my prescription. I've been wearing Shuron frames for a decade now - ones approaching their hundredth birthday. I'm spending this weekend trying to come up with my own Blue Steel. The Ronsir is not going away.īecause I keep directing people to Shuron when they ask about the glasses, the company is sending me a free pair, which I believe makes me the world's first blogger/spokesmodel. The Ronsir was in many movies and worn by many actors/celebrities - Kevin Costner, Denzel Washington, Vince Lombardi, Nicholas Cage, and many others. Since then, I've heard from an executive at Shuron, the company that invented the style in 1941 and sold more than 17 million of them by 1970: This was crushing news - I step on my pair of Clubman Art-Rim frames at least twice a year and can barely see through a SuperGlue smudge in one lens. I wrote about these glasses last year when I heard the only manufacturer, ArtCraft NewYork, was discontinuing the style. The glasses are especially effective if the buttoned-up wearer is one bad day from a total nervous breakdown, like the downsized defense contractor D-FENS, who rampages across Los Angeles to protest incivility in Falling Down. Tom Hanks donned them in Catch Me If You Can, and you can't make a film about Malcolm X, NASA, or the JFK assassination without ordering them in bulk. That's Quite a Spectacle Whenever a character in a movie is a by-the-book square who never got over the end of the 1950s, he wears plastic-top, metal-rim eyeglasses.
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