Matt Damon in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, 2006
Browline glasses comprised almost half of all glasses sold during the 1950s, but they seem to now be experiencing a resurgence. They were created in 1947 by Jack Rohrbach, then a vice president at eyeglass company Shuron Ltd. I just bought a pair of browline sunglasses on St. Marks--haggled the price down from $20 to $11 with the Indian street vendor. For those of you on a more comfortable budget, Ray-Ban has just issued (or reissued) their Clubmaster lenses, which evoke the cool sentiments of Buddy Holly, Malcolm X, Michel Foucault and other Cold War-era stars.
Kevin Costner in Oliver Stone's JFK, 1991
Denzel Washington in Spike Lee's Malcolm X, 1992
Clubmaster by Ray-Ban, $140
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