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How to Spend It - Seeing in Focus
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
newspaper cutting
Financial Times; McEwan, Feona
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London
1982-03-06
newsprint
overall: 578 mm x 400 mm

Full page news article and picture story from a national newspaper, reporting on trends in eyewear. Includes celebrity photographs of Yoko Ono, Kenneth Kendall, Janet Street-Porter, Alan Howard, Sophia Loren, also fashion model photographs featuring Christian Dior frame 2179, Anglo American 132, an Optyl 'space-age' frame, Dunhill frame 6001-70 and a drawing showing the shape of the Anglo-American 'Butterfly' frame. Includes information on the NHS sight test, the launch in 1981 of an opticians department in Debenhams (the first department store to do so), the price of frames (with comment from the ADO), fashion frames (including comment from Oliver Goldsmith), sunglass frames. Also features on swimming goggles/masks, Barbara Daly eye make-up artist and combining make-up with contact lenses (with comment from Anne Silk), children's eyes (including photographs of the NHS C223 and Viennaline model 1188, finally a comparison of the three types of contact lens (soft, soft for extended wear and hard).


2016.842

Gift of Mr Gordon Jones, 2016



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