Vanished 1950s Glasses Every Woman Owned (That Are Coming Back in Style)

In the spring of 1954, a sixteen-year-old girl took off her pink rhinestone glasses at the door of the school dance and danced three whole songs with a boy she couldn't see.

Girls all over the country did the same thing - because of one two-line poem from 1925. And then, in 1953, Marilyn Monroe put on a pair of cat-eye glasses on screen and showed everybody it was nonsense.

The glasses those girls hid are back in the shops now: the beaded chain, the snap-shut case, the flip-up clip-ons, the ten-cent sunglasses from the Woolworth's on the Atlantic City boardwalk, white frames with green lenses, the Wayfarer, Edith Head's blue-tinted round glasses, pearl and rhinestone frames, the two-tone frame, glasses with a wardrobe of swappable tops, the cat-eye, and the very first contact lenses.

And one thing from the optician's workbench you can still ask for today.

💬 What color were your very first frames - and how old were you when you got them? Just a color and an age below. Let's see how many shades of pink 1954 really came in.