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GI glasses are eyeglasses issued by the American military to its service members. Dysphemisms for them include the most common " birth control glasses " ( BCGs ) and other variants. At one time, they were officially designated as regulation prescription glasses ( RPGs ).
Bug-eye glasses are a form of eyewear. They were popular in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and were used for regular glasses and sunglasses. They first became popular in the mid-1970s, and succeeded the cat eye glasses of the 1950s and 1960s. Bug-eye glasses are distinguished by the size of their lens, being large enough to cover the entire eye.
Photos of Roosevelt wearing the glasses led to the initial popularization of rimless eyeglasses amongst Americans in the early 1900s. Rimless glasses were first widely offered as pince-nez , with manufacturers arguing that the design was superior to extant eyeglasses because it secured the lenses directly to the nose and kept them in place.
Image credits: Vestiges of History "Family stories describe people, who they are and what they are like, and how characteristics are echoed through the family ('You are so much like your ...
Before and after pictures of my restoration of my grandfather’s old bench grinder. I suspect that he inherited it from my great uncle. The stand is actually the base for an old cream separator.
Glasses wearing had long been stigmatized, with wearers stereotyped as physically weak intellectuals, [1] members of the clergy, or simply elderly; [7] President Theodore Roosevelt's wearing of rimless eyeglasses had only recently begun to eliminate the stigma, albeit with glasses designed to minimize their appearance. [7]
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In the United Kingdom, wearing glasses was characterized in the nineteenth century as "a sure sign of the weakling and the mollycoddle", according to Neville Cardus, writing in 1928. [76] "Tim" Killick was the first professional cricketer to play while wearing glasses "continuously", after his vision deteriorated in 1897. "With their aid he ...