Gender specific eyewear did not come about until after WWII then we got into sexy eyewear or sex specific eyewear to be exact.
These are pretty sexy and very gender specific as they are from the “Goddess” Collection by Frieze Frames.
The incidence of myopia among Inuit was not significant until after missionaries taught them to read according to Margaret Livingstone, a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School.
In the fifteenth century, craftsmen in Florence had become the world’s leading manufacturers of spectacles and were so cheap and plentiful that even lowly renaissance artisans could afford to buy lots of pairs.
Source: The New Yorker, March 2010
Talking of sexy, I am a big fan of The Tudors on TV and I noticed that King Henry VIII has some pretty fancy eyewear as he ages through the series. I wonder who is providing the eyewear for this series.
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