Daisy Jones & The Six Boho Sunglasses Edit

If you’ve had your peepers glued to Daisy Jones & The Six like we have, you can’t have missed the array of 70s glasses and sunglasses stealing the show, along with seventies florals, fringing and flares to the clogs and crochet.. oh and the music’s pretty ace too.

Take your cue from Daisy and The Six and rock culture and take a peep at our boho vintage eyewear edit..

rock n roll aviators

Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne’s classic aviators - coz let’s face it everybody looks a little bit more rock‘n’roll in an aviator.

70s oversized

Oversized glasses and sunglasses are never out of style. Seventies sunnies are perfect for leaving gigs in the early hours, blocking both the sun and those pesky paps. These babies aren’t going anywhere - turn any of our vintage glasses into sunglasses.

butterfly revival

The butterfly is a really beautifull and easy to wear shape. Metal or acetate, glasses or sunnies create an elegant boho silhouette.

Gold square aviators

Gold square aviators sported by Rod Reyes and Eddie Roundtree in the Daisy & The Six, give a cooler than cool seventies style.

Round frames

Whether its rock‘n’roll John lennon style round metal sunglasses as rocked by Warren, or soft round acetate in mother earth tones - both are perfect for aspiring rockstars.

If your perfect pair is showing as sold out, check out our Personal Shopper Service as we’ll probably have something similar in the studio we can make up for you. We can turn any of our vintage glasses frames into boho sunglasses.

Find your perfect pair and add a graduated tint for that authentic look (add prescription if you wear it).

So book that guitar lesson then shop the store for Daisy Jones & The Six original vintage frames.

Peace out

Jo

Deirdre Barlow glasses legacy

Coronation street’s spectacle style icon Deirdre Barlow and her glasses collection is a bit legendary. Oversized glasses and eighties style pattern and crystal frames are having a moment and we’re not sorry.

Actress Anne Kirkbride, best known for playing the role of Deirdre Barlow in the cobbles from 1972 to 2014, is sadly no longer with us, but her iconic oversize glasses style lives on.

Her love triangle, Deirdre’s tonal 70s glasses and vintage jumper combo really working for her here, pictured with Ken and Mike.

These oversize 1980s Deirdre Barlow glasses frames, with colour pops of piped enamel on a clear crystal base are giving us good vibes.

Even behind bars Deirdre gave good glasses. Delivered in the form of eighties and early nineties oversize owl glasses in fun two tone pearlescent prints.

Dior’s more recent campaign with their inadvertent homage to Deirdre or ‘Diordre’.

Deirdre Barlow we thank you for all your good glasses work over the decades - your legacy lives on.

Take a peep at our vintage Deirdre glasses frames and get your Deirdre on..

Jo

swinging sixties style - glasses and gogo boots

Anything was possible in the sixties, after the war freedom and fun was back on the menu and fashion was breaking all the rules. Biba, beatniks, mod culture and the micro miniskirt - the 60s was an important era for culture, fashion and vintage eyewear as the modern age was born.

60s fashion

Fashion found freedom in the sixties.. graphic colourful prints and monochrome checkerboard, playful peter pan collars paired with white gogo boots - the 60s were all about new and innovative style. Modern fashions became affordable, unlike the couture and women embraced it.

Today we’re wearing vintage prints in a modern silhouette, don a snappy mod suit or keep it classic with a retro shift dress and kitten heels, there’s a sixties style for everyone..

Micro Miniskirts

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Hemlines rose in the sixties, Mary Quant delivered us the micro mini and leg baring became the epitome of 1960s fashion. The miniskirt liberated women allowing much more freedom of movement and they got shorter as the decade went on. The heart of Quant's business was her boutique store Bazaar in Kings Road, Chelsea - she became the brand, wearing her own designs, vibrant and modern complete with her cute Vidal Sassoon bob.

Quant cleverly adapted minimalist styles, her simple shift dresses were often modelled on schoolgirl pinafores and paired with flat shoes. Twiggy modelled micro dresses by the dozen in matching brightly coloured tights.

‘The whole point of fashion is to make fashionable clothes available to everyone’

she said, making her lines affordable for the working woman and her pay cheques. Watch the documentary film Quant to find out more about Mary.

Futuristic 60s space fashion

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The 1960s space race was an exciting time and saw young designers creating new out-of-this-world styles. Intergalactic travel and flying cars were happening any day and so moon chic was most definitely a thing.

Andre Courrèges's designs epitomised the space age look, with boundary pushing materials and bold geometric silhouettes made up of space bonnets, dresses and boots made from modern high-tech fabrics in a palette of white and silver metallics.

Paco Rabanne was another designer creating space age fashion. Through the use of plastics he created his signature metallic chainmail dresses, seen more recently reincarnated at Chanel.

At the same time Pierre Cardin was fashioning dresses from white leather and plastic discs. His 1960’s Cosmos collection, included shift mini dresses with cutouts and helmets - it was all essentially wearable art.

To recreate the 60s futuristic look just add metallic eyes with decorative elements, gogo boots, disc earrings and a helmet and stick Barbarella on.. far out.

60s Beatniks

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The beatniks came from the 1950s beat movement where iconic figures like Jack Kerouac rebelled against the materialism of post war years and everyone listened to frantic jazz.

Hanging out in jazz bars and listening to spoken word poetry, the anti establishment Beatniks adopted the minimalistic nature and ideology of beat style and created their own aesthetic for anybody who rejected the mainstream in favour of artistic self expression and intellectualism. Music, art, poetry and literature were the order of the day.

Beatnik style was anti-fashion, so while mainstream teenagers were donning clever copies of Christian Dior’s hourglass skirts, beatniks opted for lots of black and streamlined silhouettes.

Cigarette pants and black turtleneck sweaters were the uniform of choice, a timeless, chic staple today, with the addition of black leotards for women to allow even more freedom of movement.

To recreate, and I often do, dress head to toe in simple black silhouette and add beret and horn-rimmed glasses.. goatee optional.

60s mods

Being a Mod, or Modernist, in the 60s was a complete lifestyle choice - it was about the clothes, music and clubs. Once Mods clocked off from work they totally immersed themselves in the Mod culture.

Obsessed with getting the right look - they spent all their wages on smart suits, influenced by French and Italian designs, the order of the day was slim silhouettes, androgynous style button down shirts and skinny trousers or bold pop art geometric prints like Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian dresses.

The mods listened to Modern Jazz and R&B, while the London Mods could be seen hanging in Carnaby Street parading their fashions while music from the Kinks blared from boutiques.

They clashed with rival youth group, the Rockers, who preferred leather jackets, motor bikes and rock'n'roll, checkout Quadrophenia to see what went down with Mods and Rockers.

Biba

The iconic Biba store, created by Barbara Hulanicki and husband Stephen, was where the young crowd flocked to Biba to buy mod clothes. Biba's aesthetic was inspired by decadent, bygone styles like Art Nouveau and Art Deco in earthy toned colours.

The 1966 edition of Time magazine announced London as 'The Swinging City' and Biba as ‘the most in shop for gear’. Shopping at Biba was more like an event with a unique atmosphere and aesthetic. The store was filled with ornate Victorian furniture and antiques, dimly lit for dramatic effect and nothing was displayed in the windows, which were completely blacked out.

Biba was the store to be seen in and the label to be seen wearing.

60s ACCESSORIES

The 60s are a total inspiration for vintage beauty. From eyeliner styled in feline flicks to doll-like lashes, the origins of make up we wear today.

What could be better than to accessorise with the perfect iconic 1960s haircut? 60’s hair was bold, sexy and as free-spirited as the attitudes. Vidal Sassoon first gave us the bob and then later in the decade the pixie cut as seen on Twiggy and Mia Farrow. Beehives abounded piled high on heads.

Rebelling against beauty salon culture, beatnik and mods wore their hair long, straight and loose ala the Broadway musical Hair. From Jean Shrimpton’s blow dry, to loose waves and eyelash grazing fringes.

Headscarves, worn with sunnies, were massive in the 60s along with headbands and other hair accessories like decorative jewels and I could write a whole chapter on the beret, as glorious now as they ever were.

60S vintage GLASSES & SUNGLASSES

60s glasses were as fun as the era.. round, oval and oversized glasses shaped from thick acetate, geometric designs and retro metal round glasses favoured by John Lennon. Mirrored and coloured lenses arrived - with fun colour pops and graphic printed frames. 1960s glasses became so much more than a medical device, a bona fide fashion accessory and style statement.

German eyewear companies such as Metzler, Menrad, Rodenstock were producing beautiful quality glasses and sunglasses that were made to last.

British designer Oliver Goldsmith created stand out eyewear for high society throughout the 1960’s. The first eyewear brand to feature in the pages of Vogue, cultural icons were seen in Oliver Goldsmiths designs from rockstars to royalty like Audrey Hepburn, Michael Caine, Grace Kelly and Jackie Onassis. Jackie O was rarely seen without her oversized sunglasses.

As the decade went on, frames got bigger and bolder and Oliver Goldsmiths creations got wilder and more headline grabbing, the perfect examples of sixties modernism, like these examples in the V&A.

Take a peep at our 60s style vintage glasses and sunglasses and swing on..

Jo

Pair your eyewear with vintage jewellery

If there’s one thing we love more than eyewear, it’s vintage jewellery and the two make perfect partners. Team your eyewear with authentic vintage and preloved jewellery - we’ve teamed up with jewellery experts William May Jewellers to get their take on the hottest retro jewellery styles to wear with your vintage frames.

Aviators, squares and hoops

For an authentic 70s luxe look (think BBC’s The Serpent), pair your oversized Aviators with classic gold hoops. Oversized thin hoops or smaller creole hoop earrings both work well with aviators and other 70s large wire and acetate frames.

gold creole and skinny hoops from William May

Oversized 80s frames with big bold jewellery

If you want to channel the Lady Gaga’s look from House of Gucci (and frankly who wouldn’t) go with oversized round or square glasses from the late 70s and 80s, team them up with chunky yellow gold jewels.

Big bold chains are having a moment, are oh so retro and are best-sellers at William May, from classic yellow gold, to chains set with sparkling crystals.

chunky gold chains from William May

And to complete the full on House of Gucci look, go for big yellow gold bracelets, dress rings and chunky gold earrings.

vintage gold selection from William May

I’m currently obsessing over gold jewellery and I’d be happy waking up to any of these in my stocking on Christmas morning.. or you could just treat yourself.

Jo

Second Hand September

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We’re big on sustainable second hand shopping here at Peep, not only because you can find unique pieces from different decades, but because it greatly reduces our impact on the planet.

The textile industry alone accounts for about 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions and is a big contributor to the climate emergency. But we can take action by taking part in Oxfam’s Second Hand September Challange to buy nothing new and shop only second hand for the month of September… and beyond.

what is second hand september?

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Fast fashion is damaging our planet. The excess waste from this throwaway lifestyle is putting pressure on the environment. People living in the poorest countries are suffering the most yet have done the least to cause it. Shopping and donating with Oxfam helps to raise vital funds to help families tackle the crisis in their communities.

Although Oxfam don’t believe the responsibility to fix the problem lies with us shoppers (agreed) – Second Hand September and slow living is a way of individually doing our bit to make our lives more sustainable.

Check out Oxfam’s pop up shop in London Selfridges full of incredible second hand pieces selected by their thrift expert Bay Garnett. When you donate clothes to Oxfam nothing goes to landfill and now you can donate them by post. Order your free donation bag from Oxfam or donate in-store.

Search #SecondHandSeptember on Instagram to find loads of inspiration and tag @OxfamGB

why shop second hand

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It’s sustainable

You’re extending the life of clothes, because when you buy a used item you are saving all the resources it took to make that item. It takes 2,700 litres of water to make one new cotton t-shirt compared to a second hand tee from a charity shop which uses none. The same applies for eyewear and homewares - it’s a step towards a circular economy where everything is reused, repaired, and recycled.

More choice, unique pieces

There are so many great wardrobe staples you can find alongside unique gems you can uncover from different eras, from 90s power suits to 70s coats, the trend cycle means that the previous decades are regularly back in fashion. You can find designer items at an affordable price and styles that are no longer being produced. We love that you can express your individuality more with preloved fashion and homewares, find your own style and what truly suits, instead of being dictated by trends.

Keeping clothes out of landfill

13 million items of used clothing ends up in UK landfill every week. When you shop secondhand fashion or homeware, you’re keeping these items out of landfill and back in circulation while reducing the demand for fast fashion and fast homeware.

Secondhand goods are better quality

Vintage items were made to last. Older items are often better made, sometimes handmade from better materials, from a time when quality was prized over quantity. That’s why the vintage market is thriving with so many amazing sellers curating beautful pieces from the 60s, 70s and 80s all in exquisite condition.

If you buy something second hand but decide you no longer want it you can sell it on or donate and keep the cycle going.

Giving back

Shopping and donating with Oxfam, and other charities, helps to raise money for people who are suffering the effects of the climate emergency right now. You could help fund a solar-powered pump that brings water up from underground during dry season, or provide farmers with drought-resistant seeds. When you shop second hand you’re giving back to a charity or small sustainable business instead helping of big boys get bigger.

How to shop second hand

Shopping second hand has never been easier with shops like eBay, Vinted, and DePop you can buy secondhand from the comfort of your sofa. Instagram is a mecca for beautifully curated vintage and preloved fashion and homewares, where sellers do the hard work for you handpicking quality and stand out pieces.

Or if you want to get hands on, there are still charity shops on the high street and their doors are open, if you can’t try items on in a changing room, you can often exchange and return. There’s also the pleasure of thrifting through local fleamarkets, antique shows and car boot sales - it’s addictive.

Here’s our tip tips to shopping second hand..

Know what’s in your wardrobe - knowing what you’ve already got to work with, any pieces that you purchase will save you from repeats.

Go with a shopping list - pieces that you’re missing from your wardorbe that you actually need, will save you from indulging in retail therapy. Charity shops are great for staples like mens tailoring and knitwear.

Know yourself - what styles and shapes suit, colour palettes that work for you and fit in with what’s in your wardrobe.

Know your measurements - vintage clothing comes up smaller than modern sizing so take your measurements before shopping, such as bust, waist and hips.

Give it a good once over - if it’s virtual read the condition report and check the pieces for stains and damage. You can always ask for more information. Old fashioned labels and zips will give you a clue to the pieces age.

Look at what it’s made of - try to source mostly natural fibers like cotton, silk, linen, and wool as they’re more breathable and planet friendly to wash and stay away from anything that needs dry cleaning.

When you shop second hand or vintage, buy only what you need or love, that way you’ll always be shopping sustainably.

Take a peep at our range preloved and vintage second hand frames.

Jo

The Serpent sunglasses - seventies styling at its best

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We’re more than a little obsessed with the BBC’s latest drama, The Serpent, set in 1970s Bangkok, where notorious French criminal Charles Sobhraj targeted tourists on the Asian hippie trail posing as a gem dealer. We’ve created a mini collection in homage to The Serpent - original 70s sunglasses for your viewing pleasure.

Seventies sunglasses steal virtually every scene throughout the series, although the rest of the styling is equally en flique - kudos to the BBC style team. Tahar Rahim and Jenna Coleman knock it out of the park with their roles as Alain and Monique.

Square shapes, oversized frames and aviators with washed out sepia and graduated tints showing off the eyes were huge in the 70s. Headscarfs, halternecks and woven bags - team with your seventies sunnies and you won’t go wrong for that authentic 70s aesthetic.

The seventies were all about making style statements and showing your personality in palettes of earthy tones with yellow and graduated tints - take a peep at our brand new Serpent Collection

You’re welcome.

Jo

Make do and mend, a tale of recycled fashion

In bygone eras materials weren’t as readily available so everybody practised repairing and recycling in some form, whether unpicking knitted jumpers to knit into new, to shoppers bringing their own paper to wrap purchases. Housewives learnt to make do and mend and people did imaginative things with potatoes.

Recycling and upcycling is close to our hearts and we’re looking to the 1940s for inspiration on what can be restored, repaired and made ‘new to you’ again...

Re-invent your wardrobe

What’s already in your wardrobe? Do you know? Spring is the perfect time to take inventory and get the most from your clothes. Take time to work out which styles suit you and what works for your lifestyle right now. Style things differently – have a play and change up looks with accessories. Layer up, try a polo neck under a dress or a tee under a slip to get more wears and make your wardrobe work harder.

Make Do and Mend

Garments can be tailored to fit and you can make your own repairs alterations – tune in to The Great British Sewing Bee and be inspired to learn a few basic stitches, take up hems and make simple amendments. We’re loving Tilly and the Buttons and Love Your Clothes for mending and making tutorials.

Or find a local tailor to take up and take in, they’ll also be able to rework necklines and replace zips inexpensively. Shoes can be taken to cobblers to be re-heeled and resoled, while bags and belts can be mended there too.  

When it comes to your favourite glasses they too can be restored and revived with our restoration service. We offer both a polishing and reglazing service that saves frames from landfill and gives glasses a new lease of life. From oiling to polishing we remove scratches, general wear and restore lustre.

If you've scratched your lenses, had a prescription change or just want to change your lens colour we can reglaze your glasses.

Customising your clothes

Use embellishments and adornments to customise your clothes and make your mark. Additions of fringing, beads and vintage patches work a treat.

Try your hand at simple embroidery and add to denim, tees and shirts to update your current wardrobe. Check out Mollie Makes for inspiration.

Bear Shark Embroidery

Let it go

If you’ve worked out it’s got to go, host a clothing swap party with friends and go home with new threads.

If garments are beyond saving, recycle at your nearest Clothing Bank.

The Big Closet Clear Out is happening in March - see the Love Your Clothes website for more tips to get involved.

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Remember loved things last.

If you want to chat about restoring your glasses or tell us about your latest recycling projects please get in touch, we’d love to hear about it.

Jo

Spring (sunglasses) have Sprung

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It's official! Throw off your cardigans and throw open the windows. Blooms are abundant and so it's time to move things alfresco.

Spring is the season to start afresh. Get outside and get amongst nature; the extra daylight gives our senses a natural boost and the blue skies and warm air are sure to put a spring in our step.

It's also the perfect time to make changes and shake things up wardrobe wise. We've gone dotty about spots, flora + fauna and upcycling denim wherever we can.

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We'll also be taking extra care of our skin with the help of BADs Sun Awareness Week  raising awareness of skin cancer from sun damage with their 'Don't Bake' Bake campaign. Scarily skin cancer is the UKs most common form of cancer and worryingly 1 in 3 of us are still getting burnt by the sun! 

Rates of melanoma in the UK have quadrupled since the 1970s. Over 15,000 new cases occur every year in the UK. So slap on the sunscreen peeps, pop on your sunnies and stay safe in the sun.

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We can bespoke any of our vintage eyewear into sunnies, just in time for the next heatwave...

Metallics are having a moment for Spring/Summer, we're loving the recent influx of delicate metal frames in every shade of spring - think cornflower blues and mint greens. 

Frames with botanical inspired patterns are also topping our lust list.

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For more inspiration check out our Spring/Summer lookbook.

Stay safe, stay beautiful!

Jo