I noticed that between the original Iron Chef and Iron Chef America, Chef Morimoto started wearing eyeglasses in Kitchen Stadium. It could be that his vision changed, or he was tired of wearing contacts. I just think that the producers or the costumers didn’t think regular eyeglasses would befit the super hero-like, almost cosplay costumes the Iron Chefs wore. They just weren’t shazam enough.
Now, Morimoto sports some specs that seem to me to be a modernized version of the authentic 1950s half horn rim like so:
I am not sure whether all celebrity chefs have stylists, but most chef glasses have leaned to the more studious than tha shazam. Take Alton Brown. His glasses are more Buddy Holly than Elton John.
I found a few candidates for the old Iron Chef show on the Zenni Optical website. The staff of the Clark Howard show ordered glasses from the site for one and all (but not for me because I don’t know them). They seemed to be pretty satisfied with their $8.00 frames, so it got my mind on the subject. These would have been slightly more apropriate, I think, with the outer spacey looking shapes. I would have said the silver, of course, to match his Kitchen Stadium silver costume.
What do you think? There are other choices aplenty, but colorwise, and because they were just a little bit different, it would be my selection if they were ever to change the concept of Iron Chef back into a costume pageant.
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