Browline glasses
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Malcolm X with browline glasses.
Browline glasses are a style of eyeglass frames which were very popular during the 1950s, especially in America. The name derives from the fact that the bold upper part of the frames frame the lenses in the same way that a human's eyebrows frame his eyes.
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[edit] History
Browline glasses were invented in 1947 by Jack Rohrbach, then vice-president of Shuron Ltd., an eyeglass company.[1]. As of 2008, Shuron is still producing these frames, and is one of the few companies doing so.[2]
Browline glasses made up almost half of all the eyeglasses sold during the 1950s.[3]
As of 2008, Ray-Ban also makes a very similar frame called Clubmaster, which are sold as sunglasses.
[edit] Famous wearers
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- Tommy Douglas
- Noah Bennet from the NBC drama Heroes, though most characters mistakenly identify them as horn-rimmed glasses
- Malcolm X
- Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of KFC
- D-Fens, the main character of the film Falling Down.
- In JFK, Jim Garrison wears them.
[edit] References
- ^ "Looking Back": an illustrated history of the American Ophthalmic Industry, by the Optical Laboratories Association
- ^ Shuron Ltd. / Shuron.com
- ^ Shuron Ltd. / Shuron.com
[edit] External links
Shuron's "Ronsir" line, one of the last browline glasses lines in production