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  2. Horn-rimmed glasses - Wikipedia

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    Many glasses manufactured during this period tended to imitate popular metal eyeglass styles, with significantly thinner frames and vertically smaller lenses. The popularization of 1960s styles by the television show Mad Men led to horn-rimmed frames produced in the 2010s being more traditional, with large lenses and thick, heavy frames.

  3. Rimless eyeglasses - Wikipedia

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    Photos of Roosevelt wearing the glasses led to the initial popularization of rimless eyeglasses amongst Americans in the early 1900s. Rimless glasses were first widely offered as pince-nez , with manufacturers arguing that the design was superior to extant eyeglasses because it secured the lenses directly to the nose and kept them in place.

  4. Lensless glasses - Wikipedia

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    A woman wearing lensless glasses. Lensless glasses are glasses that lack lenses. They are worn solely for aesthetic or fashion purposes, having no function in vision correction or eye protection. The frames are usually oversized, and commonly all black in color. They may be worn in conjunction with contact lenses.

  5. Coconut Grove used to look like that? See photos of hippies ...

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    In the 1960s the Grove, absorbed into the city of Miami and the site of City Hall, was a counterculture capital where hippies would circulate “Being Nice” flyers and camp out uninvited in ...

  6. Browline glasses - Wikipedia

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    Browline glasses are a style of eyeglass frames where the "bold" upper part holding the lenses resembles eyebrows framing the eyes. They were very popular during the 1950s and 1960s, especially in the US. The glasses were first manufactured by Shuron Ltd in 1947 under the "Ronsir" brand, and quickly emulated by various other manufacturers.

  7. Miami was once a hippie hangout. See how the streets ... - AOL

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    In the late 1960s, long-haired, beaded and tie-dyed flower children brought their drugs, incense, guitars and peace symbols to South Florida. Hippies had finally reached Miami.

  8. List of bespectacled baseball players - Wikipedia

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    The stigma had diminished by the early 1960s and by one estimate 20 percent of major league players wore glasses by the end of the 1970s. [1] [3] The development of shatter-resistant lenses in the latter half of the 1940s contributed to their acceptance. [4] The first major-league player to wear spectacles was Will 'Whoop-La' White in 1878–86.

  9. Groucho glasses - Wikipedia

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    Considered one of the most iconic and widely used of all novelty items in the world, Groucho glasses were marketed as early as the 1940s [2] and are instantly recognizable to people throughout the world. [3] The glasses are often used as a shorthand for slapstick [4] and are depicted in the Disguised Face (🥸) emoji. [5] [6]