I was at the optician to buy prescription sunglasses. Bi-focal sunglasses. They had a lot of stylish wrap-around glasses with made-up Italian names I'd never heard of. The optician looked at my prescription and mentioned that a wrap-around probably wouldn't be satisfactory because of the nature of my correction(s), but they would be getting in a shipment of Ray-Ban frames in a week or two.
At the time I was wearing my favorite t-shirt - brown XXL from Chuck Schmidt, with a race image of Fausto Coppi in the 1949 TdF, just radiating immaculate coolness in his Ray-Ban Aviators. He won the race, establishing Bausch & Lomb's Ray-Bans as being hyper-cool, and they became a style choice of the 1950s.
I was cool. I said, "No problem, I'll wait for the Ray-Bans to come in". Yes! Ray-Bans!
Addendum:
Late last night Mimbres Man sent me this picture from his past. Ray-Bans still rule. (And the phone numbers are NOT still valid.)
Wish they fit my 7 3/4s better.
ReplyDeleteThey DO come in different sizes you know.
ReplyDeleteVery cool pix of Fausto. Do you know the location or stage?
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about it really, other than it was flat, Coppi was cool and he looks great on a brown t-shirt.
ReplyDeleteVery cool! (Although I'm a little younger, more from the 1980's Rayban Wayfarer era) -Tony
ReplyDeleteSince my Ol' man was USAF (Full Col.)we use to get these for free. A whole Drawer full. Nice use of tax payer money.
ReplyDeleteRemember the square ones with the straight temple.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/aircrew-military-spec-sunglasses.aspx?a=308792
BTW Ray Ban is officially owned by Oakley.
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