Vintage Glasses

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This website documents the travels and many, many wearers of a pair of eyeglasses that once belonged to documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles. Along with his late brother David, Albert Maysles is responsible for the documentaries Gimme Shelter, Salesman, and Grey Gardens.

Jess Search, the new owner of the glasses, says of them:

I can tell you that there is something realyl really unusual about these frames. Everyone who puts them on is totally transformed. It’s blinding, NO ONE LOOKS LIKE THEMSELVES WHEN THEY WEAR THEM (hmm unless they only look truly themselves when they wear them?). But the point is that anyone could rob a bank in Al’s glasses and their own mother couldn’t finger them from the cctv evidence. Maybe that’s why people like wearing them so much.

The glasses themselves appear to be a Buddy Holly-esque style, and if you ever needed more proof that they look cool on many different people who are not Buddy Holly, check the gallery.

(via Jezebel)