12/11/2022 0 Comments Actreess glasses culrs![]() ![]() Her true epithet was radioactive to pronunciation: Maria Salomea Skłodowska. ![]() Even so, styles have been named after her - well, her nom de science. Though so many try to simulate smartness via specs, physicist-chemist Madame Marie Curie didn’t need glasses to win two Nobel Prizes, in 19. (The era and the company she kept - namely surrealist artist Salvador Dali - may have contributed.) Prada and Dolce & Gabbana should pay her homage, as well the 1990 flick Paris is Burning with its OTT ocularly-adorned drag queens. Parisian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli never glassed-up, despite creating OTT Dada-esque feathery frames. Self-cloistered poet Emily Dickinson did not wear spectacles, despite oft-mentioned ocular distress in her work, with lines such as “Eyes be blind, Heart be still” and "Before I got my eye put out." Jane Fonda, 81, saw clearly via clear plastic oversized frames in 1980’s Nine to Five. Sophia Loren, 84, rarely deviates in showcasing her hazel peepers in oversized rose-metal wire rims with adorned arms, despite the vast arsenal of styles in her bestselling eponymous Sophia Loren Eyewear collection. Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda went undercover as a call girl in oversized ombré specs in ‘71’s Klute. When Jodie Foster played 12-year-old hooker Iris in ‘76’s Taxi Driver, she protected her irises with sheer green plastic glasses, naturally. (Given a choice, the late Nabokov would’ve said Nyet to the accessory.) Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita only acquired red plastic heart frames in Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film. The lorgnette of Jane Eyre’s author, Charlotte Brontë, inspires wonder, as in how was she able to write in 1847 and see at the same time?Īt least by 1869, Little Women author Louisa May Alcott had a prairie companion of wire-rims with arms. Perhaps we can blame the somber times for her plain-Jane style - FDR governed in the Great Depression and WWII. Her specs are immortalized on the cover of This is My Story (1937), part one of her three-tome autobiography. (Actually, it is coincidental.) Round frames that make the womanįirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt pulled out bland metal-rimmed granny glasses and Wayfarers strictly for business - as a highly successful magazine advice columnist. ![]() More recent - and less torturous - spec stars are a hard-wired act to follow: Basic black Wayfarer wearersĪctress, director and photographer Diane Keaton, whose wardrobe is black, white, ivory and ebony, wears black or burgundy Wayfarers and sporadically bronze-wire squovals (as she did in 1996’s First Wives Club), with the random round wireless thrown in.Ĭoincidence? Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Diane Keaton’s hero, mostly is robed in black and wears - wait for it - black Wayfarers and wire-rim squovals. Anything but harmless were the armless pince-nez (literally French for “pinched nose”) and single-hard-handled lorgnettes (from the French for “to squint”). You need not have 20/20 eyesight to know what inspired the names of women’s glasses in centuries past. ![]() We’ve come a long way, baby, since Dorothy Parker declared in 1925: “Men seldom make passes at women who wear glasses.” Flirtatious stars Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren and Lady Gaga have proved her wrong - repeatedly.Īlso in our rearview mirror are the days of suffering for one’s vision. ![]()
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