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I’ve posted before about my purchase from Fabulous Fanny’s, but they deserve a whole post. An unassuming shop in the East Village of Manhattan that specializes in eyeglasses, they also sell antique glasses, including pince-nez, and various other eyewear oddities such as antique chains. They also have an excellent collection of vintage sunglasses. Some of their catalog tends toward the costume-y, and some of the frames aren’t vintage but rather new frames modeled after older styles.
If you’re not in New York, they also have an online store with a very wide selection.
They’re not opticians – the vintage frames are mostly sold without lenses (except for some of the antiques), and they sent me to Optical 88 in Chinatown to have my prescription added. However, they do offer services that a regular optician wouldn’t, like replacing missing parts from antique spectacles or the custom addition of rhinestones to your frames.
