Round frames
Frames with circular lenses, often in thin wire or tortoiseshell.
Also: round glasses, Windsor glasses
Round frames have perfectly or nearly circular lenses. Wire round frames were the everyday glasses of the nineteenth century; Mohandas Gandhi's round steel glasses and John Lennon's from the late 1960s made them well known worldwide. The round wire Windsor glasses of the nineteenth century are a close relative. Opticians say round frames soften square and oblong faces, and that larger rounds suit wider faces better than small ones.