horn-rimmed

My guess is that each micro-demographic thinks of the other micro-demographics as 'buffoons' or perhaps 'horn-rimmed nerds'.

The headline invoked a scene of a horde of menancing nerds in horn-rimmed glasses and slide rules.

Thankfully, I can't remember his name, though I can still see his smug mustache under his horn-rimmed glasses.

At that point, people may become suspicious of anyone wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses.

The host, a professor in horn-rimmed glasses and a bowtie, had a piece of advice I found surprising at first.

Instead of shiny future-clothes, he'd wear Red Wing boots and horn-rimmed glasses.

Look for the professor in the tweed jacket, with horn-rimmed glasses, and the gaze which pierces through both his students' excuses for late homework and statistical irregularities.

And Eric Raymond wears horn-rimmed glasses.

And, as a friend who has a TT job at a Canadian University recently observed, it is generally the adjuncts who most adopt the professorial look: sweaters, jackets with elbow patches, horn-rimmed glasses.

While he wore a hood which meant a video feed in a nearby Starbucks only got a partial image of his face, adding a baseball cap and horn-rimmed glasses would have easily obscured even more from both cameras and nearby witnesses, with no apparent downsides.

The first of them, dressed in a summer gray pair, was short, well-fed, bald, carried his decent hat with a pie in his hand, and on his well-shaven face were glasses of supernatural size in black horn-rimmed.

Until that one consultant moves in, and convinces someone higher up that you need to move to microservices and containerize all the things, and next thing you know, you are all growing mustaches, wearing suspenders and horn-rimmed glasses, taking Lyft's to work, and clamoring for the company to sponsor your Chemex habits.

Scientists, these days, can sport a different attitude, compared to the horn-rimmed-glasses-and-elbow-patched-tweed of the stereotypical “scientist,” of popular culture.

"rose-colored horn-rimmed" glasses should give you a hint.

So the hipster looks at mainstream people wearing abercrombie and says, "Blech!", talks about how bourgeois and uncultured those people are, and then play into the same sort of thing with horn-rimmed glasses and 1920's vintage clothing, or whatever the counterculture-du-jour is that season.

Not sure if they needed to point out that the female scientist "wears large horn-rimmed glasses and has the wholesome look of a young Sally Field" while not mentioning the appearances of any of the male scientists in the article.