The Thousands

Moscot Eyewear have been trading out of Manhattan’s Lower East Side since early last century. Painted on the walls of their dilapidated showroom is a frankly incredible list of customers including Woody Allen, Truman Capote and Johnny Depp.

Very soon they’ll be able to add the name of every roll-cuffed, Incu-wardrobed nut from Bondi to Avalon to that wall because Moscot are now selling their classic frames range here in Australia.

While the thought of everyone in Sydney swanning around in Moscot Originals is vaguely horrifying, it’s not as horrifying as the knowledge that a 22-year-old Buddy Holly had a pair of Moscots perched on his nose when his plane plowed into a frozen Iowan cornfield fifty years ago.

Still, if you’re going to be incinerated alive you might as well be wearing a beautiful pair of glasses.