Why Horn-rimmed Glasses Can Stand Vicissitudes and Greet a New Renaissance？

If you are an eyewear amateur, you have every reason to acquaint yourself with horn rimmed glasses. Although this kind of glasses is frequently mistaken as a new fad, its long history is undeniable. In this article, you will find out the reason why their reputation can last for such a long time.


Horn rimmed glasses have experienced dramatic changes. Each change is to carter for contemporary eye-wearers’ appetite. It is interesting that this sort of glasses was born with nasty impression. They are first well-known by silent Comedian Harold Lloyd’s comedy short Over the Fence. During this play, Lonesome Luke, the character he played, was accepted by the public as a normal person finally, after he altered his appearance with a pair of round horn rimmed glasses. Because of this play, the people who wear a pair of it would be recognized as physically weak intellectuals. Although the reputation is not so good, this type of glasses left a deep impression among people.

It is not until the prestigious figure like President Theodore Roosevelt wore such glasses that their disgusting feeling started to fade away. Later horn-rimmed glasses become warmly welcomed on account of Buddy Holly, a famous musician. At this time, horn-rimmed glasses had already had various styles. Buddy Holly preferred bulky square pairs. With the well-sale of his album, horn-rimmed glasses became an overwhelming eyewear fashion.

Even though horn rimmed eyewear was encountered with the impact of large steel aviator glasses in 1970s and fell back out of fashion in the mid 1990s, it survived and become increasingly popular among wearers. At present, horn-rimmed glasses are rarely made of real horn or tortoise shell as the consciousness of environment protection is strengthened. Plastics widely used in manufacturing horn rimmed glasses for its affordability.

Horn rimmed glasses have three unparallel advantages. First of all, real horn made eyewear is beneficial to people’s health. Second, current industrial art is advanced. Plastic is processed to imitate natural horns with some parts look transparent. Third, more and more celebrities, like Johnny Depp choose to wear this type of glasses. Therefore horn rimmed glasses will defeat other stylish glasses like tinted glasses and become the king of eyewear.


Nowadays, as we know, there are lots of Hollywood stars or some other famous pepole who have their style glasses,and Vance Worley glasses is one kind of the best fashionable eyeglasses,in the future,we believe that those style glasses will be more and more popular.