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.)
7 comments:
Wish they fit my 7 3/4s better.
They DO come in different sizes you know.
Very cool pix of Fausto. Do you know the location or stage?
I don't know anything about it really, other than it was flat, Coppi was cool and he looks great on a brown t-shirt.
Very cool! (Although I'm a little younger, more from the 1980's Rayban Wayfarer era) -Tony
Since my Ol' man was USAF (Full Col.)we use to get these for free. A whole Drawer full. Nice use of tax payer money.
Remember 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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