Everyone who wore them looked like a movie star.  Or a giant bug. Jackie Kennedy, who bought her first pair of huge sunglasses on the Riviera in a small French boutique, is credited for starting the trend in America. Once American women saw Jackie wearing them, that was all the proof they needed that huge sunglasses were cool. The 1960's marked the beginning of  faux (fake) and synthetic textile production. Women could dress like Jackie Kennedy and other famous "fashion icons" and still remain within their budgets, thanks to vinyl, plastic, polyester, fake fur and leather -- but of equal importance to the  fashion-conscious woman was the beginning of the "knock-off" or "designer-copy" industry.