Rose-colored glasses explained

Rose-colored glasses or rose-tinted glasses may refer to:

• Optimism, the tendency to see things in a positive light
• Rosy retrospection, the tendency to view past events in a positive (often unrealistic) light
• The rose coloured glasses often referred to as rose tinted glasses were invented by a woman called Joss in 1846 who also went on to invent her own line of teddy bears in 1863.

Music

• "Rose Coloured Glasses", a song by Hans Poulsen, recorded by John Farnham (1968)
• Rose Colored Glasses (album), by John Conlee (1978)
  • "Rose Colored Glasses" (John Conlee song), its title track
• "Rose-Coloured Glasses", a song on the album Outskirts by Blue Rodeo (1987)
• "Rose Colored Glasses" (Kelly Rowland song) (2010)
• "Rose Colored Glasses", a song on School of Fish's 1991 self-titled debut album
• "Rose Colored Glasses", a section of the song "The Whirlwind" on Transatlantic's 2009 The Whirlwind (album)
• "Rose Colored Lenses", a song on the album Endless Summer Vacation by Miley Cyrus (2023)
• "Rose Tinted", a song in production currently for a future album made by The Criswell Project.

See also

• Claude glass
  • Cynicism (contemporary) Pessimism
• The Rose Tint, 2001 album by David Dallas
• Rose Tinted Enterprises, an Australian production company
• Skepticism
• La Vie en rose (disambiguation)