Slow and Steady: The History of Tortoiseshell Glasses and Sunglasses

If there was ever a bona fide outright classic-looking frame it would certainly be a pair of tortoiseshell glasses. Whether it’s...
Read more
If there was ever a bona fide outright classic-looking frame it would certainly be a pair of tortoiseshell glasses. Whether it's the frame of thick oversized acetates or a simple temple tip detail on a wire frame, the organic mottled pattern has been stirring up a sense of antiquity and class in eyewear for as long as anyone’s grandad can remember.