thick frames

Heavy eyewear borders

Thick frames are eyeglasses with wide, heavy rims—the opposite of thin wire frames or rimless styles.

The term usually describes fashion eyewear with bold plastic frames that make a visual statement: She wore thick frames and red lipstick.

Thick frames have cycled through associations with nerds, hipsters, and mainstream fashion.

Related
  • glassesCorrective eyewear or tumblers
  • eyewearItems worn on face for sight
  • boldCourageous and daring
  • chunkyThick and lumpy
  • hipsterAggressively alternative person

retro · plastic · acetate · black · nerd · geek · lenses · oversized · statement · heavy · rim · spectacles · tortoiseshell · vintage · rectangular · fashion · fashion forward · optician

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Opposites
frame width/bulk

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Simplified visual schematics

wire frames · metal frames · titanium frames

frame presence

thick framesrimless glasses

Eyewear without surrounding frames

rimless frames · half-rim glasses

Family

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