![]() On a more common man level, my own father, who wasn’t necessarily working the uber-thick Wasserman frames, always wore some variant of a large, thick, tortoise, square-lensed frame. Joe has fully committed to them, and the effect is hilarious, decadent and wonderful. The glasses are huge, putting two, thick-rimmed, TV screen-sized lenses on his face. ![]() ![]() From left to right, starting at the top: Cary Grant, Lew Wasserman, Buddy Holly, Michael Caine, Swifty Lazar, Jared Harris as Lane Pryce, Jack Nicholson, Tim Burton, Joe Hubrich.Ībout two years ago, friend and makeup artist Joe Hubrich found a great pair of big, thick glasses and made a clear decision to make them part of his increasingly public look. Thick, angular, handsome frames with smoked lenses with a slightly blue tint. Back in 1995, long before Matthew Weiner created Lane Pryce and Harry Crane – a time when thick frames weren’t necessarily on the hipster radar, I met director Tim Burton, who was rocking a pair of the most genius horn rims I have seen to this day. Then, in the ’70s, when the wheels came off a lot of better style judgment, they became associated with old men, chemistry teachers and nerds.īut through the uncool nerd era of thick-rimmed wayfarer glasses, there were men who stuck to their guns, long ago adopting them as a fully integrated part of their public image. The frames were dark, angular and decidedly masculine. Since the powerful influence of Mad Men‘s style started creeping into the mainstream, inspiring men even in the furthest reaches of the urban sprawl to go skinny on the ties and lapels, the unlikeliest of men have joined the Thick Rim Glasses Club membered by icons like Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Cary Grant, Buddy Holly, Swifty Lazar, Lew Wasserman, Robert Evans, the cast of Mad Men and any average Joe from the mid ’60s through the mid ’70s. A friend recently asked me whether or not thick, horn-rimmed glasses would be good for him or if they had become passé.
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