El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-04
Yes,Styles
LA Specs
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Fashions IN shoes and hats and
window curtains and eolffurss and
everything!
It's an accommodating sort Of term
used TO Indicate that elusive some
thing so faithfully and perslstently
pursued by woman-so ridiculed and
admired by mani
And the very latest thing in fash
ions Is fashions in eye glasses.
Time was when eye glasses were
merely specs" When one reached
the place where one simply had 70
have them in order TO read by lamp
light OF even see plainly by day. ons
HE'D himself TO the nearest OpEcian
and was fitted with a pair OF specta-
cIes- Usually they were steel trimmed
with rather a small, hat lens, the
idea being that the smaller the lens
the less conspicuous the specs
With the passing OF the years.
however. and the more and more
general education Of the public as re-
CARDS the use and abuse OF h eyes.
glasses began to change. For one
thing. people did not wait until they
were nearly blind before they donred
them They realized that the old
saying, prevention Is better than
cure" was as true when applied TO
the care OF the eyes as TO anything
else So = glasses began to be
worn more and more and soon e.
forts 10 make them as attractive as
they were useful began 70 be made.
with the result that today there are
many. many women and men who
keep IS carefully up 10 date in rhs
matter OF eye glasses as they do IN
their clothes. shoes. hats. or h fur
nishinEs OF their homes
Fad in Glasses.
Fads In eye glasses come and go A
few years g a mOnocle On a black
ribbon was hung about the neck OF
every smart" young woman True,
thing vas plain window glass-didn't
the 10 cent store" sell them7-but
many OF them were quite genuinely
useful Their popularity Waled, how
were next IN rogue These enjoyed
much prestige for q long time In
deed, they are still worn by many
persons who are wiling TO endure
their rather unbscoming qualities for
the sake OF h relief afforded the
eyes by the elimination OF the all
trying ultra violet rays
Eye glass lenses have run ths
Eamut OF every color IN b spectrum
Few have endured. Amber lost its
IllAUaLAAL AELAAHa u M@ AZA4AL ~
becoming. There have been pale
grays and greens and violets but.
once tried, they we're seldom called
for again Crystal lens remain the
most used but within the past three
or four years Sir william Crookes
has invented a new lens which is
rapidly becoming widely used When
worn, they are not noticeably colored,
but II placed over a piece OF white
paper they are seen to be family col
- " A-@m~Ha- iii Annm 49, EEaH
the color IS q cross between red and
gray. but to the initiated the glass
looks very, very family gray.
The Tortoise shell Era
Apart from the lenses. eye glasses
change radically IN many other ways
Fl Paso-and probably the rest OF
the worlds stin in the throes OF
the tortoise shell rim" epidemic,
whose victims may be seen on the
streets every day by the thousands
For the most part. the shell rims are
becoming 70 their Wearers, provided
they are fitted by a skilled opticizn
who knows enough to use round
frsmes for one type OF face and oval
ones for another. The unaruracrlve
"owlish" aspect so often viewed BY
Innocent and suffering ~bysran6ers Is
usually merely the result OF careless
ness in diffsreutiating between the
It vas IN the height OF the shall
rims popularity that = local society
d~sbutants insisted pom purchasing a
pair OF spectacles with heavy dark
rims, regardless ee b fact that her
eyes were nearly perfect and that
glasses were quite in the non-essan-
tial class IS far as b was con-
cerned. That wasn't the point Tor
toise shell rims were new and smart,
therefore h must have them-
More sIodfzh Rims
In the matter Of rims, which, per
haps, owe their prestige 10 the fact
that they prevent an untold amount
OF breakage. something new has been
recently placed upon h market.
which is gaining instant popularity
especially among elderly persons,
whose hair is gray or white. These
a family EraTish cast also.
and are OF the same material & their
so-called tortoise shell' brothers.
but make quite a remarkable differ
ence in the appearance OF the sweet
faced. white-haired woman who
TO be Up to date. but looks
strangely foreign and ont Of pace
with the dark and heavy colored rims
about her eyes
In brief, opticians must pay Just
much attention to b Whims a1o
vagaries OF Dame Fashion as do the
boot makers or modiStcs.
The only-but rather particular-d1-
ference between the Two IS that
STYLES IN eye glasses are becoming
more and more sensible and practical
Each change mean something real
IN additional comfort. wearing quail
ties or general utility Can the same
said OF skirts and heels,
courtesy 10 the Eirls leaving FOR