1960s: JOHN LENNON GLASSES
Although they didn’t look terrible on Ben Franklin 200 years earlier, tiny glass circles on thin wire frames did for men in the 1960s what cat eyes did for women the decade before: made their faces look ridiculous. This modern style mistake can be traced to John Lennon. The Beatle sported “granny glasses” for the first time in 1966, adopting them from the character he played in a movie.