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Question: John Lennon, Freud, James Joyce and mid-career Gloria Steinem

BostonTerrier — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:24:15 -0800

Who else had/has signature glasses frames?

A week ago I made the final mortgage payment on these stunning frames. I want these to be my signature look until I croak, I love them so much.
Who, besides the above-named people, wore a signature frame that they never veered from? I want to be among their number.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:28:36 -0800

George Romero

By: dfan

dfan — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:32:25 -0800

Harold Lloyd

By: kimdog

kimdog — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:35:11 -0800

Although the frame style changes, Sally Jesse Raphael always wears red.
Iris Apfel

By: deanc

deanc — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:35:41 -0800

NEVER veered from? that's a tough one.

Elvis Costello started off with those larger plastic frames which I was told were the NHS-standard frames that he wore as sort of an anti-fashion-statement,but as you can see he migrated to similar but smaller frames that fit his face better as he got older.

Bono is frequently found in these blue sunglasses, but he's changed colors up a bit, recently.

Johnny Depp alternates between blue aviator frames and a sort of Gregory-Peck-style tortiseshell frames.

Post senate Tom Daschle has been trying to cultivate a pair of bright red circular titanium frames as his signature look.

By: nev

nev — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:35:42 -0800

Ira Glass

By: nev

nev — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:36:51 -0800

George Burns

By: Juliet Banana

Juliet Banana — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:39:35 -0800

Iris Apfel, though I've been beaten on preview

Erik Spiekermann

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:41:16 -0800

Jackie O's signature sunglasses. Swifty Lazar. Le Corbusier.

By: cazoo

cazoo — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:43:29 -0800

Jarvis Cocker
Lina Wertmuller

By: mazienh

mazienh — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:43:46 -0800

I always associate Lisa Loeb with her cat-eye glasses, but I don't know if she ever changed them.

By: artychoke

artychoke — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:44:48 -0800

Woody Allen

By: kmennie

kmennie — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:46:08 -0800

NAME AND MANUFACTURER OF YOUR GLASSES PLEASE

WB Yeats had a different look in his younger and older years, but the young Yeats' glasses and the older Yeats' glasses are pretty consistent, and defining.

By: piedmont

piedmont — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:54:19 -0800

How are there this many comments with no mention of Buddy Holly?!

By: BostonTerrier

BostonTerrier — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:55:27 -0800

^ Nashville by Etnia Barcelona

By: Elly Vortex

Elly Vortex — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:05:55 -0800

Velma from Scooby Doo

Professor Farnsworth from Futurama

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:26:19 -0800

Roy Orbison

By: zephyr_words

zephyr_words — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:44:27 -0800

rivers cuomo from weezer.

By: mdrew

mdrew — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:54:42 -0800

Edith Head

By: mollymayhem

mollymayhem — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:04:19 -0800

Greta Christina, while not as famous as those above, is recognized for her awesome specs.

By: mochapickle

mochapickle — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:13:55 -0800

Harry Potter.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:54:44 -0800

Andy Warhol.

By: macadamiaranch

macadamiaranch — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:15:30 -0800

Harry Caray

By: Houstonian

Houstonian — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:20:41 -0800

Anna Wintour. Also, Karl Lagerfeld switches between a few different kinds of frames but they all keep to the same look.

By: Rich Smorgasbord

Rich Smorgasbord — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:23:16 -0800

Le Corbusier has been mentioned. Also Phillip Johnson, and a whole bunch of other architects. It's actually a bit of a schtick for an architect to wear big, slightly eccentric glasses. Just google "architect glasses" (in quotes) and you'll see what I mean.

By: violetk

violetk — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:29:36 -0800

icon carrie donovan.

By: iviken

iviken — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:37:23 -0800

Peggy Guggenheim .
Mahatma Gandhi.

By: iviken

iviken — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:53:52 -0800

Dutch soccer player/coach Edgar Davids.

By: Houstonian

Houstonian — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:54:10 -0800

Sporting the exact same frame since 1916, Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe.

By: Houstonian

Houstonian — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:02:31 -0800

Malcolm X, too.

By: Room 641-A

Room 641-A — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:07:09 -0800

On preview: I couldn't believe no on mentioned Malcolm X!

DMC
John Waters

It's actually a bit of a schtick for an architect to wear big, slightly eccentric glasses. Just google "architect glasses" (in quotes) and you'll see what I mean.

Just in time for Halloween: 'Instant Architect' cut-out paper glasses

By: JMOZ

JMOZ — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:10:44 -0800

Sarah Palin? (sorry)

By: BostonTerrier

BostonTerrier — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:31:07 -0800

After reading each of these responses, I smacked my forehead and yelled, "Of course!"
How, how, could I have forgotten about Edith Head?
And, if I were a young lady when he was a young man, I would have had an enormous crush on Harold Lloyd.
Thank you, collective brains.