Melissa 094

I came across these beautiful Piave glasses (with wobbly

arms) at the Amsterdam flea market in the late 1980's

and bought them straightaway without bargaining - there

was a sweet memory attached to this frame. Early in 1975,

I met an art student at a party and afterwards she came with

me to my student room, leaving only fourteen years later. She

disliked her rather sturdy Bausch & Lomb glasses so after a

few months I persuaded her to try some of the big frames that

were just introduced in the optician's shops. This Piave frame,

in a purple colour combination, caught our fancy (at Rx -7 she

had to rely mostly on my opinion) and from then on she came

to like her glasses. She only used her Piave glasses for about a

year as the heavy lenses made the frame rather unstable. No

such problems here for Melissa. These Piave glasses have a mild

Rx not unlike her own prescription.