What kind of glasses is Ronnie Kray wearing?

pasta_paul

In the trailer [Youtube.com] for the upcoming ganster movie Legend , we see Ronnie Kray (cast by Tom Hardy) wearing the following glasses: Are these glasses accurate for the timespan (1950 - 1960)? Are such glasses still made today, leaving aside the Rayban Clubmasters, that are similar, but quite different in detail?

Originally asked by Etheryte on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The glasses are generally referred to as " Half-rim glasses ", " Brow-line glasses " (or more colloquially " Eyebrow glasses "). They were indeed appropriate to the period. You can see Ronnie Kray wearing them in the photo below from the early 1960s.

Full answer by user7812: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/36217 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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