Horn-rimmed glasses
A horn-rimmed glasses was originally the name for a glasses with glasses from Horn . In the meantime, this generally means dark, solid glasses frames, even if these are mostly made from cellulose acetate today.
The horn-rimmed glasses as the prevailing shape of glasses for a long time are not widely used today. The horn-rimmed glasses first became popular in America in the 1920s through star comedian Harold Lloyd , who wore them as the trademark of his film character - the so-called Glasses Character - in his films. With the horn-rimmed glasses, Lloyd wanted to emphasize the mediocrity of his film character. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely used in political and economic circles. Prominent horn-rimmed glasses at the time were Henry Kissinger , Hanns Martin Schleyer , Herbert Wehner , Erich Honecker and Buddy Holly . In particular, Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski was so associated with his horn-rimmed glasses that horn-rimmed glasses of particularly lush weight were called Wischnewski glasses .
Nevertheless, from the late 1960s onwards, horn-rimmed glasses were gradually replaced by more elegant and more unobtrusive metal frames. This is why it was given the derisive nickname “ AOK -frame” or “Kassenrahmen” because, in contrast to the designer versions that were initially much more expensive, it was fully financed by the health insurance companies.
In the course of this negative image, the horn-rimmed glasses temporarily became a kind of identification mark in the stereotypical representation of class strangers, whose outsider status was to be underlined with this accessory - often held together by adhesive plaster. In the film Woody, the bad luck raven, Woody Allen parodies this image of horn-rimmed glasses (which also became his trademark): As a running gag , other children regularly destroy his glasses as an additional humiliation after they have beaten him until he finally trampled his glasses himself, so as to avoid the harassment. In the Superman comics at the beginning of the 1930s, Superman's shy alter ego Clark Kent - his camouflage identity - was portrayed as a wearer of horn-rimmed glasses.
More recently, horn-rimmed glasses have experienced a renaissance as a fashion accessory as part of various retro trends .
literature
- Tilman Allert , perspective is not a question of age. A small theory of the thick frame, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine magazin, May 2016, p. 46.
Web links
- Christian Jakob: craftsmanship! How to make glasses out of buffalo horn , SWR TV - Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz from November 25, 2018 (YouTube from October 18, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lloyd, Annette. The Fashion of Harold Lloyd. 1996