Bug-eye glasses
Oversized eyewear popular from the 1970s through the 1990s.
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Bug-eye glasses are a form of eyewear distinguished by lenses large enough to cover the entire eye. They were popular in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, used for both regular glasses and sunglasses, and succeeded cat eye glasses.
Quick Facts
- Period of popularity
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- First became popular
- mid-1970s
- Preceded by
- cat eye glasses of the 1950s and 1960s
- Succeeded by
- thick-rimmed, rectangular styled glasses of the 2000s
- Notable wearers
- Audrey Hepburn
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Paris Hilton
- Nicole Richie
- Sophia Loren
- Victoria Beckham
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- Wikipedia: Bug-eye glasses (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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