Once upon a time in America, young men came across and restored several pairs of gold-filled 1940‘s spectacles while studying in college. He discovered that gold-filled cable temples were holding the lightweight frame in position while he was pitching for his college baseball team. Soon, friends and family were asking him to find and restore […]

Classic tortoise shell frames are back! Well, maybe they never actually left… Tortoise shell is the one look in eyeglass frames that has been around since the beginning. Tortoise shell is one of the original materials from which eyeglass frames were made. Why was it called tortoise shell? Until the early seventies, tortoise shell was really […]