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Lorinda Cramer, Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University

‘Slutty little glasses’: men’s eyewear fashion is the history of seeing – and being seen

If you’ve been on the internet lately, chances are you’ve heard an intriguing – and perhaps even startling – descriptor applied to men’s eyewear: “slutty little glasses”.

Coined by online creator and culture critic Blakely Thornton, the term was earlier used to describe the fashionable wire-framed specs sported by actor Jonathan Bailey’s character in the film Jurassic World Rebirth. Lately it’s been applied to a broader range of men’s glasses.

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