At Gucci, the models paraded down the runway in enormous owl-like glasses (some bedazzled in rhinestones) while the girls at Pucci had scuba-style eyewear wrapped around their dainty little heads.

Kids were starting to wear big, bulky glasses, and it was understood that they weren't actually nerds; they were affecting nerdiness in quotation marks, so that you knew they were really un-nerdy.

The eyes have it The glasses-wearing nerd is on the way out. Stockton optometrist Rosemary Melrose has seen an interesting shift in her young customers' attitudes to eyewear. It … ...