“In the 1930s, one elevator to the Rainbow Room was reserved for customers in formal dress, meaning white tie men dressed more casually in tuxedos had to travel second-class.” I absolutely love the top hats, bowler hats and fedoras.īy the way, this quote from Great Fortune gave me pause: I don’t miss the old high waistline pants which really freak out generation Y kids when they see old James Bond movies, but I wish old fashioned headgear would make a comeback. Well, maybe the eyeshades are out because they look dorky, like many other old wardrobe elements. Here’s a self portrait by Jean Baptiste Chardin dated 1775: Researching the matter further it looks like the green eyeshade is a lot older than I thought. I really don’t see a reason why nobody except the card dealers wear them anymore – if anything there’s even more glare in today’s workplace than ever before.

I wonder if early computer programmers wore them too. It looks like in the olden days eyeshades were worn by accountants, editors, typesetters and Morse code operators. Also copyeditors don the green eyeshades sometimes when going to their conventions. Turns out there’s such a thing as Green Eyeshade Award.

I could buy one, but I am afraid wearing it at work would make me look even more eccentric, which is probably not a good thing. These days it seems that the only professionals who wear green eyeshades are casino dealers. I once seen a blue banker’s lamp at Staples, but when I tried to buy it an extremely rude stockboy took it away because it was the only display copy.

It might have something to do with the green color of the banker’s lamp. It’s interesting to know why the predominant color of the accountant/editor eyeshades is green. I still don’t understand why they wear weird little bands or garters on their sleeves. Now I understood their purpose – it’s to cut down on the glare. This made me remember a stereotypical picture of an accountant or an editor: in cartoons they seem to wear those funny little green visors. Yeah, it might say “Red Carpet With Joan and Melissa Rivers” on it, but the cap really cut the glare down. Short of building The Tent of Doom over my cube I found some relief by wearing a promotional baseball cap that found it’s way onto my desk. Tesla unleash such an evil invention upon us? Anyway, even after jumping through a few hoops to get the lamp directly over my cubicle turned off and talking most of my co-workers into turning theirs off (everyone seems to like it better without them), there’s still way too much glare from remaining lamps. One of the things that I hate the most about my job is overhead fluorescent lights.

Why do casino dealers wear green visor