Wearing Glasses

[Zincubus]

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That looks like a picture that you would see on the wall inside a Dolland and Aitchison's in the early 1990s.

I don't need glasses to see that she hasn't got a bra on.

She was the prettiest one I found find ..


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[George 1978]

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She was the prettiest one I found find ..

You don't read The Sun (or look at the pictures) do you?

[Danniella]

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My reading glasses are similar to the girls above, i can fasten my buttons though while wearing them!!

[zabadak]

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Since having bionic eyes installed to replace my worn-out, cataract-ridden old ones, I can see through walls (actually, I need glasses to read, which wasn't the case before...)!

[staffslad]

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I wore black NHS glasses from the age of about 10. I may have had the round, wire-framed ones prior to that as well. Back then--1970s--those were the only ones we could afford. There were no optician chains and no advertising allowed. Around 1979 I got some metal ones. Then about four years later some different silver metal ones, followed two years later by the same design but in gold. From about 1986 I would interchange those two pairs each time I needed new lenses, and stayed like that for about 14 years using those identical pairs.

In the early 90s I thought I would try contact lenses. My eye condition meant I couldn't wear those soft plastic ones, instead I had to have the hard type and it was like having a piece of grit in each eye all the time so I went back to normal glasses--my trusty gold or silver framed pair. Another thing about the contact lenses was they were a devil to remove. The optician gave me a tool--a kind of stick with a sucker on the end that I had to press onto the lens and then wiggle about until they became loose.

[Richard1978]

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I had some frames which had new lenses put in to save money.

[Trickyvee]

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C524 are the chunky NHS glasses I'm referring to in post #2. The two metal frames seem much rarer in the 1970s and 80s judging by school photos. You could get C524 with pink and blue frames as well as the more common black and brown.

they were certainly the most popular although now that I think of it, there was one lad who had metal framed glasses throughout school. They weren't like those on that chart though so they must have been bought privately. They were more 'aviator' shaped - high fashion in the day!

[George 1978]

I was thinking about this thread when I thought about our new PM Sir Keir Starmer who seems to wear glasses more on a regular basis these days since he's moved into Downing Street, but when he was Director of Public Prosecutions, he hardly worn them - I don't really remember him wearing them back then.

On the other hand, former Blackburn MP Jack Straw used to wear them during the early Blair era but stopped around the time when Gordon Brown was PM - but it made me think that he had contact lenses or something.

[80sChav]

Had to wear them at school and got bullied for it, like on Grange Hill in Series 10 when Trev and Imelda nicked that Kid's Glasses (not as they was taxed" as we termed pinching back that or like whatever, but it has always been an on-off story if I needed them so have always had a complex about wearing them-wearing them not