nuranar: Hortense Bonaparte. La reine Hortense sous une tonnelle à Aix-les-Bains (1813) by Antoine Jean Duclaux. (Default)
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Glamorous, these are not. I really should have tried for more of a 40s hair silhouette... Anyway, here they are.

Vintage on the left, Ye Target on the right.


I am now struck by the fact that they ARE still bigger than the vintage lenses. However, this is as they should be. Note how in the picture on the left, the arm on the vintage glasses splay outward to fit over my ears, whereas the arms on the Target glasses can go straight back.  This, dear reader, is called Fit. Vintage glasses do not fit my face well. They're useable, but they do not truly fit. It's like wearing a hat that's a half-size too small: it "perches" a wee bit higher or a wee bit further back than ideal.  In the interests of saving a good $30, hours of search time, weeks without sunglasses, and having a fun color, I don't mind a small compromise in the size of the lenses.

Perfect? No. But still really darned good.

Date: 2012-07-12 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nuranar.livejournal.com
It's funny - all the vintage ones I've had were shaped like that. But when I shared pics of the first pair on the FL years ago there were comments even then about the unusual triangular shape. The *really* weird thing about this pair is that they don't match each other. I can understand the frames warping over time, but the lenses don't even match each other!

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