13 thoughts on “Top 5 Eyeglasses in Frock Flicks

  1. Yes, I too wear glasses. And I enjoy seeing them worn correctly in period films, like the fantastic John Adams miniseries and P&P.
    Some nice use of them are the Australian series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and Lady Mary in Downton Abbey when she attended the car rally/race.

  2. I actually once had to go glasses-less in a play because my frames were too modern for the 1930s.

    My favorite glasses in a frock flick are the tortoise shell ones Natalie Portman wears in Planetarium/The Summoning. But that might just be my crush on her.

  3. You left out Sean Connery / Brother William of Baskerville in The Name of The Rose. His glasses were period appropriate and fit in the story and his character.

  4. I’ve worn glasses since I was in second grade. They’re just sort of always there because my eyesight is terrible and I don’t do contacts, and I’d never thought of them a lot in relation to period films. I do re-enactment/history stuff that’s set around 850-900 CE in the Viking era, and because my eyesight is terrible, I usually keep my glasses on and then take them off just for pictures. Actually, most of us in the group who wear glasses do that, since the medieval spectacles are from a later period. My daughter’s optometrist told us that only about a quarter of eyesight issues are genetic – the rest are environmental and can be moderated with careful screen use and lots of outdoor time (for the natural light) and wearing sunglasses and hats to protect the eyes against very bright sunlight. It made me wonder if the need for glasses would have been a little less common back then.

  5. I’m also a long time glasses wearer. I have astigmatism mixed with farsightedness. So, it’s a double edged sword. As for seeing glasses worn in historical shows/movies, I just get excited to see them worn correctly for daily activity and by people other than the oldest characters.

  6. I remove my glasses for bathing, sleeping and not much else. I chose my current frames after watching Hidden Figures and seeing cat’s eye glasses here and there.

  7. The 1995 Persuasion has a couple of people wearing glasses on occasion. The one that I found interesting was the little boy wearing glasses while putting a puzzle together with Anne, just before she’s hauled away for the “very long walk”.

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