novelty glasses

Silly fake spectacles

Novelty glasses are eyewear designed for humor or costume rather than vision correction.

They feature exaggerated or absurd elements—oversized frames, fake eyeballs, attached nose-and-mustache combos, star-shaped lenses.

Common at parties, photo booths, and Halloween: She grabbed a pair of novelty glasses from the prop table.

Related

gag · gag gift · funny · plastic · oversized · prank · silly · eyewear · mustache · fake · Halloween · photobooth · frames · googly · goofy · joke · props · star-shaped

Categories
Opposites
purpose/function

novelty glassesprescription glasses

Custom lenses for vision

corrective lenses · reading glasses · prescription eyewear · bifocals · progressive lenses

formality/seriousness

novelty glassesdesigner frames

horn-rimmed glasses · tortoiseshell frames · pince-nez · monocle

Family

novel, novels, novelist, novelists, novella, novellas, novelette, novelty, novelties

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G