granny glasses

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There are glam-rock looks and dance breaks and trendy fanny packs and granny glasses, and an adoring public representing all ages, from hipsters in their 20s to families toting little kids wearing earmuffs.

From Seattle Times

The exhibition is being underwritten by Gucci, the Italian brand that has experienced an extreme renaissance over the last few years under the creative director Alessandro Michele, with his vision of a grab bag world of muchness that includes boys and girls and sequins and tennis sweaters and granny glasses, an aesthetic that has effectively been a celebration of the power of camp.

From New York Times

Mr. Stanfield also brought along rose-colored granny glasses, which he described as “my soul realized in third-dimensional space.”

From New York Times

There were sweeping Victorian ruffles and bourgeois tweed lunching suits; granny glasses and piles of Elizabethan curls; ruffles and crosses and disco zebra stripes and sequins and floral sweatshirts.

From New York Times

Gone are the silly forelock and the granny glasses, replaced by a tidier Wall Street coif and sober dark frames.

From New York Times