Help me find these funny glasses

October 2, 2009 10:58 PM

Help me find glasses like these in New York City.

I need them to complete a Halloween costume, but I'm not seeing them in any of the stores I've visited. The design is unimportant; the important thing is the cardboard eye piece with the hole for seeing.

Already visited: Party City, the costume shop on Broadway between 11th and 12th St, Ricky's, some dollar stores in my neighborhood. Been scanning the drugstores, too, but nothing so far.

I suppose I could buy them online if it comes down to that, but I don't need a dozen pairs and I don't want to pay whatever in shipping for something I would think I could buy in person for a couple of bucks.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (5 answers total)

Try Fantasma Magic Shop across from Penn Station, around 33rd and 7th. If they don't have it, they might know who does.
posted by suedehead at 1:43 AM on October 3, 2009

This also seems reasonably easy to facsimile if you have some blank frames
posted by CharlesV42 at 4:43 AM on October 3, 2009

These usually seem to come in a large party-size pack anyway, so I think you should go ahead and buy them online. The time it will save you is worth a couple bucks for shipping.
posted by hermitosis at 6:44 AM on October 3, 2009

Best answer: I think I saw them at Reminiscences on 23rd St near 6th Ave
posted by Pineapplicious at 1:14 PM on October 3, 2009

Response by poster: Pineapplicious gets best answer; Reminiscences did not have them, but the employees there sent me to Abracadabra two blocks down, which did.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:01 PM on October 5, 2009