Nickel glasses

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Nickel glasses

The nickel glasses (named after the frame , formerly made of the metal nickel , today mostly made of other materials as a retro look ) are mostly round and often also small form of the glasses frame . Like horn-rimmed glasses , they experienced a new phase of fashion popularity among intellectuals in the 1970s .

Well-known wearers of nickel glasses are or were the British musician John Lennon , the television presenter Peter Lustig , the snooker player Martin Gould and the German politicians Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and Gregor Gysi . I.a. modeled after John Lennon was on the strength of East German young people who are the Blueserszene felt belonging borne evidence is lacking .

  • George Cope († 1929)
    Pair of spectacles
    1879

  • John Lennon's Wire Glasses and Bill (dated 1978)

  • Carl Spitzweg († 1885)
    self-portrait
    around 1840

  • John Lennon's last television interview (1975)

  • Comic artist Cabu
    (2008)

  • Musician Ozzy Osbourne
    (2000)

  • Author Alberto Jiménez Ure (2020)

Web links

Wiktionary: Nickel glasses  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nickel glasses: The nose bike is now back in fashion . gq-magazin.de, November 11, 2010; Retrieved August 21, 2011