granny glasses

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"In some ways, you stick a wig and a beard on someone, little round granny glasses and a white suit and everyone goes, 'It's John Lennon'"

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025

I wore one of my go-ahead-underestimate-me suits complete with purple granny glasses.

From Slate • May 28, 2022

Mr. Stanfield also brought along rose-colored granny glasses, which he described as “my soul realized in third-dimensional space.”

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2018

Photos of the future first couple from their university years — granny glasses, peacoats, shaggy hair — reinforced an image of the baby boomers ascending to power.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2016

Perched on his nose was a pair of granny glasses and instead of straight-legs he now wore faded bell-bottom jeans.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides