Optometrists/Opticians, do you remember what these 70's/80's style glass!


Question: Optometrists/Opticians, do you remember what these 70's/80's style glasses were called!?
Doing a little research for a book, set in the 1980s and there's one character who wears those BIG glasses with the funny arms on them!.

Remember those BIG roundish/squarish/sometimes trapezoidish thick rimmed glasses with the arms that started back around your ear and bent down halfway and joined the frames at the *bottom* of the frames!? They were big in the 70s and 80s, but they were like the nerdy horn-rims of their age (mostly on girls and women)!. You still see the occasional elderly woman wearing them, usually with a chain!. I tried googling but the best I can come up with is "80s glasses" which won't work!.
Oh and in the 80s sometimes their lenses were tinted with colours!.

Opticians please help! What was this style called!? I know I asked once before without success but I'm hoping someone remembers this time!.

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Answers:
I remember those too and have a number of pictures of myself wearing them to the great amusement of my son!. We just called them reverse temple!.

In Canada, the most popular was "Lydia" distributed by Centennial Optical!. It came is upteen colours!. I had several pairs including the clear plastic with pale red dots!.

Don't forget the other eye fashion crazes of the eighties -- glued on bling for the lenses!. You could get your initial or rhinestones or little flowers!. There was also a company that hand painted designs onto extra thick edges of the lenses!. The edges were first faceted then flowers and what not were painted on!.

Believe it or not!

The School of Optometry Museum at the University of Waterloo has a great collection of spectacles, you could e-mail the curator and she may be able to send you some names and photos

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i know the ones!.
idk if you've ever seen the movie "adventures in babysitting" but the one girl brenda wears them!. its from 1987!.
you can see if this is what you are talking about you first see brenda about 1:35 into the clip!. and there is a really good shot of them at 2:20 minutes in!.
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=APwvbGlY0!.!.!.

i'm pretty sure they are called drop temple glasses!. i asked my mom what type of glasses they looked like and she told meWww@Answer-Health@Com

Hi--

I think Luxottica made a frame called the DEEDA!.

also there was something called the Versaille collection I think!.

Some people called them "dropped temple style"

good luck!

http://www!.thesightsite!.com/lx-0234!.htmlWww@Answer-Health@Com

I remember exactly the frames you mean, I started in 1970, and went through that craze of those ugly frames with the temples at the bottom!.!.!.lol!.!.including the blue and pink gradient tints!.!.!.how gawdy was that !

But, I'm sure there was no special name for that style of frames!. Everyone just called them their " upside down" glasses!.

EDIT ****

Ahhh, I thought you meant a generic name for the style!.!.!.you mean specific name and model numbers!.!.!.that's different!.

That is still very difficult to answer, there were hundreds of different models with the temples at the bottom!.

Every frame supplier, of which there are dozens and dozens had several different models with the temples at the bottom like that!.

The one that sticks in my mind the most was named "Vicki"!.!.it came in 4 sizes and about 8 colors!.!.!.lol!.!.!.you don't see that anymore!.

So, there wasn't one specific model like that, there were hundreds!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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