Granny glasses, popularized in the 1960s by the counterculture movement, have small round or rectangular lenses and were worn by John Lennon and other hippie leaders. They are still worn by some older people and hippies today. The glasses can be fitted with prescription lenses and were sometimes worn with tinted lenses or as glassless frames. The style quickly disappeared in the 1960s but is still associated with the hippie era.
Granny glasses are glasses with small lenses that can be round or rectangular, depending on the style. They were popularized by the counterculture movement of the 1960s, when they were seen on the likes of John Lennon and other leaders of the hippie movement. People who embrace the hippie lifestyle sometimes choose to wear this style of glasses, and of course they are also worn by older people, who use the lenses for reading and other tasks.
The shape of granny glasses may vary. Many people during the 1960s wore glasses with rectangular lenses and thin frames or half frames. The lenses were small, and people who really needed glasses for vision correction wore this style for reading and detail work, rather than putting on those glasses for general use. Another common style of granny glasses uses round lenses in full or half frames.
Granny round glasses are sometimes called Ben Franklin glasses, referring to the famous inventor who created the round lens style for vision correction. Several portraits of Ben Franklin show him wearing his own set of glasses with their distinctively small round lenses and light frame of his. Small, lightweight glasses are ideal for intermittent use, and people wear these glasses to read or work on projects with challenging visual detail. That is why many people associate such glasses with older people like grandmothers, since older people often need vision correction for certain types of tasks.
Granny glasses can be fitted with prescription lenses, although the small size of the lenses makes them less ideal for casual wear. Many people in the 1960s chose to wear glasses with tinted lenses, wearing them like sunglasses, with the tinting sometimes being done in an unusual color like pink or orange. Some people combined them with another 1960s fashion, glassless glasses, simply wearing the frames, with no lenses attached.
Interest in granny glasses quickly waned in the 1960s, as it often does among fads. Within a few years of becoming fashionable, glasses essentially disappeared overnight, with people embracing new styles. However, the style has become so closely associated with the hippie era that it is often worn by people who dress up as hippies or by people who wish to identify with this period in history.
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