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As explained before, the year 1964 brought a new wave in eyewear fashion which ended the cat eye era. The new frames were small and compact. The new style did not last very long. The love summer of 1967 brought larger frames and this eventually culminated in 1975 with giant glasses fitted not with lenses but with shop windows. I brought along several glasses from the short lived style of the mid 1960's for the photo shoot with Sandra and it turned out that all but one of these glasses did not suit her. Here she poses in the only pair that suited her PD.
The remarkable thing about these glasses is that they were made of wood. I have vivid memories of these glasses - not in the streets but in the shop windows of two opticians in Amsterdam. This happened in 1966 when I had already decided to become an optician. The idea of wooden glasses fascinated me but the frames did not sell and they disappeared from the shops within a few months. I never saw anyone wearing them but apparently one lady did buy them. Thirty years later, a visit to a bric à brac shop brought a pleasant surprise. Here was exactly the frame that I admired in the shop windows. Needless to say, there was no bargaining....