{"id":145,"date":"2009-02-04T13:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.selectspecs.com\/who-would-seriously-own-20000-pairs-of-glasses\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T12:15:42","slug":"who-would-seriously-own-20000-pairs-of-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/who-would-seriously-own-20000-pairs-of-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Who would seriously own 20,000 pairs of glasses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John of course.\u00a0 According to a recent poll carried out by Specsavers <strong>Elton John<\/strong> has been named as Britain&#8217;s most iconic glasses wearer admitting to buying over 20,000 pairs of his trademark spectacles, including novelty glasses with windscreen wipers and flashing lights.\u00a0 Elton John beat competition from John Lennon and Dame Edna Everage to top the poll. In the poll of 2,000 people, <strong>31%<\/strong> revealed that they were influenced by famous people in their choice of frames, with some respondents admitting that they wore glasses to emulate their favorite celebrities even if they did not need them.\u00a0 Personally, I find it hard to imagine why so many people are being influenced by Dame Edna&#8217;s choice of fancy frames, perhaps we really ought to start stocking these as they may just be hot sellers! <span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Here are the top ten most iconic glasses wearers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>1. Elton John<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elton John Glasses \/ Sunglasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ej.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>2. John Lennon<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Lennon Glasses \/ Sunglasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jl.jpg\" \/> Try These for <strong>John Lennon<\/strong> look a likes glasses: Oukai 2180 by Rhea &#8211; \u00a321.95 <a title=\"Ray-ban Glasses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/Glasses\/Ray-Ban\/RB6072\/ss129.43.html\">RB6072 by Ray-ban &#8211; \u00a3101.53<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>3. Dame Edna Everage<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dame Edna Glasses \/ Sunglasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/243634dame-edna-everage-posters.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>4. Gok Wan<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gok Wan Glasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gw.jpg\" \/> For similar style frames to celebrity fashion guru and presenter of How to Look Good Naked, Gok Wan, why not view our collection of\u00a0 <strong>square plastic glasses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Eric Morecambe<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eric Morecambe Glasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/em.jpg\" \/> Try these for <strong>Eric Morecambe<\/strong> look a likes glasses: POLO 2021 by Polo Ralph Lauren &#8211; \u00a399.30 POLO 2032 by Polo Ralph Lauren &#8211; \u00a3106.36<\/p>\n<h2>6. Alan Carr<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alan Car Glasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/carrpa_243x242.jpg\" \/> For similar style frames to Alan Carr, why not view our collection of\u00a0 <strong>square plastic glasses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>7. Timmy Mallet<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Timmy Mallet Glasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tm.jpg\" \/> Famous for presenting Whackaday (Mallets Mallet) all those years ago and his appearance on I&#8217;m a Celebrity, Get me out of Here!<\/p>\n<h2>8. The Queen<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Queens Glasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/c0018_wk45_queen_l.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>9. Johnny Depp<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Johnny Depp Glasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jd.jpg\" \/> Try these for <strong>Johnny Depp<\/strong> look a likes glasses: RB5165 by Ray-Ban &#8211; \u00a399.13 RB5121 &#8211; Wayfarer by Ray-ban &#8211; \u00a3108.77<\/p>\n<h2>10. Jarvis Cocker<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jarvis Cocker Glasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jc.jpg\" \/> Try this frame for <strong>Jarvis Cocker<\/strong> look a like glasses: VPR11L by Prada &#8211; \u00a3173.86<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John of course.\u00a0 According to a recent poll carried out by Specsavers Elton John&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[547,692,950,1150,1189,1196,2300],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}