Reading Room
Amanda Peet looks smart in a pair of glasses in tortoiseshell frames that with their oblong shape flatter her face.
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Book Return
Les Miserables star Anne Hathaway pulls off a disheveled librarian look (pre-pixie haircut) with oversized glasses.
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Punked
Avril Lavigne mixes punky pink hair and gothic eye makeup with nerdy thick-framed eyewear for a look that says, "I am crazy-edgy yet studious."
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Purely Academic
British actor Bill Nighy has sported his trademark professorial eyewear for many years.
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Pitt Stop
Brad Pitt almost looks cerebral wearing his heavy, geeky glasses that contrast with his hipster long hair.
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Higher Learning
Cate Blanchett was a forerunner of the nerd-girl glasses craze, wearing large dark framed eyewear that make the actress look positively bookish.
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Crash Course
Diane Keaton has worn prominent tortoiseshell frames since her Annie Hall days and they quite suit her quirky femenswear fashion statements.
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Smart and Sexy
Who says men don't make passes at women who wear glasses? This certainly isn't true in Diane Lane's case — just ask her husband Josh Brolin.
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Extra Credit
Australian actor Guy Pearce favors classic dark-framed eyewear when he's not onscreen.
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The Eyes Have It
Helena Bonham Carter's nerd glasses suit her eclectic and eccentric personal style. Besides, her partner, director Tim Burton, wears them, too.
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A Mark of Individuality
Johnny Depp's thick framed glasses (often with violet-tinted lenses), along with his skull rings, multiple chains, tattoos and long hair, are part of his personal style statement.
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The Old College Try
Harvard undergrad Rashida Jones looks ready for graduate school in her classic glasses.
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Study Hall
Bespectacled Robert Redford could teach us all a thing or two, including how to look classy and intelligent.