The design of this stylish reproduction sun glasses is based on original 18th century styles. They're suitable as modern UV protection, but you can also have your prescription lenses set in by your optician. The specatcles come with nose pads which can be easily snipped off for a period correct look.
18th century spectacles were charcterized by their round lenses, a style deriving directly from the 17th century. The early decades of the 1700s saw an inovation in eyewear: spectacles with temples that made wearing them much more comfortable. Spiral ends secured them behind the ears.
The first spectacles with coloured glasses came up in the 17th century, but weren't used as sun protection at that time. It was believed that coloured glasses affected the sight in a positiv way. The well-known english diarist Samuel Peppy believed that the green lenses of the spectacles he bought in London in 1666 were soothing his eyes that were aching from work by candlelight.
The Venetians were the first to use tinted lenses as sun protection. They wore green-tinted glasses to guard their eyes from the sun reflected by the ripples of the lagoon.
Our sun glasses are suitable for men and women from about the 1720s upwards. Lenses are 4 cm = 1 5/8" in diameter. Available in two styles: pewter finish with blue lenses or bronze finish with green lenses. CE certified UV protiection (UV 400).
Sun Glasses EURO 25.00
Bronze finish with green lenses
Pewter finish with blue lenses
