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Oliver Goldsmith and the evolution of sunglasses.(Brief article)

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From: Esquire
Date: 20060901
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BEFORE OLIVER GOLDSMITH CAME ALONG, sunglasses were merely tinted spectacles. Though the British optical brand began making shades as early as the 1920s, it wasn't until the '60s that a new generation of Goldsmiths began to create outsize, molded nylon frames in often unusual shapes. Once they were adopted by a young crowd of London music and movie stars like John Lennon, Peter Sellers, and Michael Caine, fashion sunglasses were born. It is to those '60s golden years that a reborn Oliver Goldsmith (now in the hands of a fourth Goldsmith generation) looks for its stylistic ...

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