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The first eyeglasses were invented in Italy by an unknown inventor. Most of the earliest eyeglasses were worn by monks and scholars.
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n the 1800s eyeglasses were considered evidence of old age and infirmity, so hand-held designs such as the lorgnette were created by George Adams to avoid having glasses on their faces.
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Bifocals are invented by Benjamin Franklin, in 1784.
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French for "pinch nose," the pince-nez was first developed in France in 1840 by an unknown inventor.
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A Hollywood actor named Harold Lloyd was known for wearing and popularizing tortoiseshell spectacles with large, round lenses.
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By the 1940s, women wore frames characterized by an upsweep on the top rim, giving them their cat shaped eye appearance.
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In the 1970s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis helped to popularize oversized lenses.
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Today, glasses are worn in many shapes and sizes, and made by many companies and manufacturers. The most popular glasses today would be small, rectangular, plastic glasses.
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