Katie 009

The Silhouette company from Austria started designing and manufacturing glasses in 1964. During the heyday of the large frames in the 1970's and 1980's, Silhouette made a major contribution to the development of eyewear fashion. During the retro era of the 1990's and 2000's, the company specialized itself in discrete rimless glasses. Now the big frames are back in the streets and it's to be hoped that Silhouette will switch back to a contemporary version of the marvelous glasses they made before the retro era. A few years ago, the company obligingly met my request to put a year of manufacture to some twenty Silhouette glasses in my collection. Silhouette used serial numbers and this enabled me to establish the age of most of their glasses - about a hundred - in my collection.