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Mad Men's Harry Crane wearing browline glasses
With the success of Mad Men, many people associate the classic men’sbrowline style with the character of Harry Crane on the TV show. I, however, will always associate them with the character of J. J. Hunsecker in the movie Sweet Smell of Success.
These eyeglasses, most popular in the 1950′s, have a heavy plastic frame along the brow (hence the name “browline”) with metal rims around the bottom. They typically also have horn rims, and have a distinguished, almost professorial look. There are women’s versions of the browline style, and they often take on a cat’s eye shape. Some variations of the browline style omit the bottom metal rim in favour of a nylon wire holding the lens in place.
Today we tend to refer to frames that only partially encircle the lens as “semi-rimless”. Most of the semi-rimless frames made today are designed to be unobtrusive, without the prominent top frame. Shuron, however, still makes browline frames in the classic style.
JJ Hunsecker Wearing Browline Glasses
Rayban makes sunglasses in this style (Clubmaster), and Zenni Optical came out with some recently (7320) that are cheeeep. I own a pair of both
They draw cute nerdy girls like flies. They also scare girly girls. Maybe a problem for some, but not for me.
I associate this frame with Malcolm X. i think he wore them better than everybody, i wear them to but there is no beating Malcolm.
Always liked the Retro style, as others have mentioned Malcolm X stands out, but there are others such as Michael Douglas (Falling Down), Kevin Costner (JFK) and Jack Coleman (Heroes).