Horn-rimmed glasses

A horn-rimmed glasses is originally the name for a pair of glasses with glasses from deer or cow horn. Meanwhile generally dark, chunky eyeglass frames are hereby referred to, even though today they are mostly made ​​of cellulose acetate.

The horn-rimmed glasses as long dominant spectacle will take place today very little spread. In the fifties and sixties of the 20th century, a wide distribution in political and business circles could be ascertained. Prominent horn eyeglass wearers at that time were Henry Kissinger, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Herbert Wehner, Erich Honecker and Buddy Holly. In particular, Hans -Jürgen Vishnevsky was so associated with his horn-rimmed glasses, horn-rimmed glasses that were described by particularly lush severity as Vishnevsky glasses.

Nevertheless, the horn-rimmed glasses was gradually displaced from around the late 1960s by elegant and unaufdringlichere metal frames. Therefore, also received the derisive nickname " AOK - frame " or " POS frame " because it was contrary to the initially more expensive designer versions fully funded by health insurance.

As part of this negative image, the horn-rimmed glasses was temporarily to a kind of identification in the stereotypical representation of class careerists whose outsider status should be underlined with this accessory - often held together by adhesive plaster. In the film, Woody, the Jonah parodies Woody Allen this image of horn-rimmed glasses ( which was for him the hallmark ): As a running gag, other children destroy regularly as additional humiliation his glasses after they beat him until he himself trampled his glasses, in order to escape the harassment. In the Superman comics in the early 1930s already was Superman's alter ego Clark Kent shy - his cover identity - shown to differentiate as horn-rimmed glasses - wearer.

More recently, the horn-rimmed glasses seen in the context of various retro trends as a fashion accessory trend -conscious youth and young adults a renaissance.