Cat-eye frame
Frames that sweep upward at the outer top corners, like the shape of a cat's eye.
Also: cat eye glasses, harlequin frame
Cat-eye frames rise to points at the upper outer edges. The American designer Altina Schinasi created an early version, the Harlequin frame, in the late 1920s and 1930s, inspired by Venetian carnival masks. Cat-eyes were the leading women's frame in the 1950s and early 1960s and have returned many times since. Stylists say the lift balances diamond, heart and round faces.