Cat eye glasses

Cat eye glasses are a shape of eyewear. The form is closely related to the browline style, differentiated by having an upsweep at the outer edges where the temples or arms join the frame front. Cat-eye glasses were popular in the 1950s and 1960s among women and are often associated with the beehive hairstyle and other looks of the period.

They preceded the large bug-eye glasses of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

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