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WorldBug-eye glasses
Large-lensed eyewear from the late twentieth centuryFrame · Most faces · 1975
🇫🇷 FranceLorgnette
Spectacles mounted on a handle for holding in place.Frame · 1770
WorldScissors-glasses
Eyeglasses with scissoring stems and a ring for a neck chain.Frame · 1750
🇫🇷 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
🇦🇹 Austria and 2 moreRimless eyeglasses
Eyewear where lenses attach directly to the bridge and temples without a surrounding frame.Frame · Most faces
🇩🇪 Germany and 2 morePanto glasses
Rounded-oval frames with a flat top edge.Frame · Most faces · 1932
🇩🇪 GermanyMonocle
A single corrective lens held in the eye socket by one eye.Frame · Most faces · 1830
WorldHandlebar moustache
A moustache with long ends curled upwards like bicycle bars.Moustache · Most faces
WorldRound glasses
Circular eyewear frames that soften angular facial features.Frame · Square faces
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Rimless eyeglasses: Document1, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lorgnette: Museum Rotterdam, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Scissors-glasses: eeedeeee, Public domain, source
- Pince-nez: Łeba, CC BY 3.0, source
- Wayfarer: Starman1984, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Monocle: Sobebunny, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Panto glasses: Kelmaa, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bug-eye glasses: Nicki Varkevisser, CC BY 2.0, source
- Handlebar moustache: unattributed, Public domain, source