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🇺🇸 United StatesAviator sunglasses
Teardrop-lensed eyewear designed for pilots and adapted for fashion.Frame · Most faces · 1937
WorldBifocals
Eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers for long and short distances.Frame
🇺🇸 United StatesGI glasses
Government-issued eyewear for US military recruits, known by dysphemisms like BCGs.Frame · Most faces
🇫🇷 France and 1 morePince-nez
Eyeglasses that clip onto the nose bridge without earpieces, popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurieFrame · Most faces · 1840
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreWayfarer
A trapezoidal eyewear frame designed in 1952 and revived multiple times through film placements.Frame · Oval faces · 1952
WorldCat eye glasses
Eyewear with an upsweep at the outer corners of the frame.Frame · Most faces · 1931
🇩🇪 Germany and 2 morePanto glasses
Rounded-oval frames with a flat top edge.Frame · Most faces · 1932
🇬🇧 United KingdomSnooker glasses
Corrective eyewear designed for cue sports to maintain optical alignment while bending.Frame · Most faces · 1938
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Aviator sunglasses: Paul Evans, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bifocals: Not credited, Public domain, source
- GI glasses: Villarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pince-nez: Łeba, CC BY 3.0, source
- Wayfarer: Starman1984, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cat eye glasses: Smithsonian Institution, No restrictions, source
- Panto glasses: Kelmaa, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Snooker glasses: SMcCandlish, CC BY 3.0, source