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Written by Ben Branch |
August 12th 2013
I recently received an email asking why we never feature glasses here on Silodrome, it was a great question and so I decided to begin rectifying the issue over the next few months.
This pair of two-tone acetate glasses by Cutler and Gross have a solid, understated appeal and it’s easy to image that they could be worn by a writer, a rocket scientist or a small town mechanic and still look perfectly at home.
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Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with well over a million monthly readers from around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
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