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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 4374542, member: 360&quot;]In the 1700s and 1800s, being seen wearing spectacles was HIGHLY unfashionable. For that reason, most corrective lenses were small and unobtrusive. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why you had stuff like monocles, quizzers, and lorgnettes, or pince-nez. Little things that could be whipped out, used, and then hidden away again. </p><p><br /></p><p>Spectacles with folding arms as we know them today DID exist as far back as the early 1800s, but they weren&#039;t common. It wasn&#039;t until the later Victorian era that people started wearing spectacles openly, as they do nowadays, when the stigma about needing corrective lenses started to die away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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