Horn-rimmed glasses
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- This article is about the eyewear. For the fictional character, see Mr. Bennet (Heroes).
Horn-rimmed glasses are a type of glasses with frames made of natural horn or tortoiseshell, or any synthetic material emulating these. These glasses began to be popular in the 1910s and 1920s, and were a standard for many decades. Some styles of glasses, particularly horn-rimmed sunglasses, still remain popular.
The U.S. visual stereotype of a nerd is of a young man wearing horn-rimmed glasses. In the late movies, the nerd is usually classified as being so-called a "nerd" by wearing such glasses and dressing particularly in such a way it stands out.
They can be seen frequently in the work of cartoonist Gary Larson. Horn-rimmed glasses are also mentioned and worn by the main character and narrator Patrick Bateman as well as many other characters in Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho. The particular brand of the horn-rimmed glasses in the book are Oliver Peoples.
An actor known for his horn-rimmed glasses is Drew Carey of The Drew Carey Show.
A fictional character on the TV show Heroes known as Mr. Bennet, has also been identified as "Horn-Rimmed Glasses."
In recent times, the wearing of horn-rimmed glasses, usually with smaller rectangular frames, is quite popular in the emo scene and may even be worn without prescription by some followers of the scene, purely for the sake of fashion. Rivers Cuomo, frontman of the geek-rock band Weezer, is a strong supporter of horn-rimmed glasses.
The term "to wear a pair of Horn-rimmed glasses" can also refer to the sexual arousal of a human male.[citation needed]
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