Nostalgia 092 Farishta

Glasses: Silhouette 1231, made circa 1986
[L: -4.00; c-1.00 o / R: -4.50; c-1.50 o]

Nostalgia 091 Farishta

Glasses: Christian Dior 2297, late 1980's
[L: -4.00 / R: - 6.50; c-2.50 h]

I remember suggesting to Farishta that the support of a hand might help against the dizzying effect of a lens that is too weak and a lens that is too strong. She followed the suggestion but soon found out that there was no real need.

Nostalgia 090 Farishta

Glasses: Rodenstock E 504, early 1980's
[L: -4.00; c-1.00 v / R: -4.75; c-1.75 v]

Another "Waterlooplein" find never used again after the early photo shoots with Astrid and Farishta.

Nostalgia 089 Farishta

Glasses: Frame France, early 1970's
[L: -4.25 / R: -4.50]

The love summer of 1967 brought the first hippies to Amsterdam but the real invasion came a few years later. Some of them sported octagonal glasses like these. Farishta liked the funny frame straightaway. The glasses were a welcome find at the "Waterlooplein" flea market during the late 1980's when many of the former hippies had transformed into yuppies.

Nostalgia 088 Farishta

Glasses: Chris Verley
[L: -3.25; c-1.50 o / R: -7.50; c-1.50 o / var add 1.50]

An interesting frame fitted with a rather awkward prescription for one with a straightforward minus six in both eyes. Farishta did not quite know what to make of it but this portrait came out fine.

Nostalgia 087 Farishta

Glasses: Gan Aimh, made in 1966
[L: -6.50; c-1.50 o / R: -7.50; c-1.00 h]

Wooden frames were an experiment seen in an optician's shop in my native Amsterdam but never in the streets. The shape of the frame is very much what the mainstream in glasses design looked like during the mid 1960's. The small, compact style put an end to the cat eye era in 1964 and lasted three years. The love summer of 1967 brought the first larger frames.

Nostalgia 086 Farishta

Glasses: Lozza
[L: -5.00; c-1.00 o / R: -4.00; c-1.00 o / bif add 1.75]

From the start of the second photo shoot with Farishta, during the summer of 2010.