[MR] Eyeglasses!

[Bambi TBNL]

Dear Dulcy            I am very near sihted and am now getting so my near vision also doesnt work  i cant read my cell phone at the end of my fulle extended arm and yet cant tell who is waving to me from across the street without some form of correction. Poor eyeaite was common. So were headaches/migraines. The difference was natural lighting progreesion, a slower paced life ( riding an ox cart doe not male me carsick with no glasses, riding a car @ 40 mph does!) and food with put aditives made it more bareable. That and folk were just plain used to it. Many wimes i go to pennsic for 1 weeks and leave everything but a magnifying glass for reading in my car.i try not to leave site for the whole time (often succeed) and keep farmers hours. I do find by the middle of the first week i kind of get into the zone...not saying everyone should try this instead pf period glasses but it is a bit of the medeivals experience that entertains me though as usual the whole documenting thing e
 ludes me.
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Date: Friday, July 01, 2011 8:51:41 am
To: <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
From: "Gina Shelley" <paintedwheel at hotmail.com>
Subject: [MR] Eyeglasses!


Thanks for the eyeglass links! As a four eyes myself, I've always wished for a pair of period eyeglasses. It has occurred to me to order a cheap pair of single vision lenses and try to mod them for our time period, but I just haven't done it. I've worn classic Windsor style frames for years, and they're about as period as any sort of glasses can be without being outright period frames (Windsors are the little wire frame spectacles with the saddle bridge you see in Civil War movies, and on the faces of Ghandi and John Lennon and Ozzie Osbourne.) I wear progressive bifocals and my regular lenses are just too bloody expensive to turn into a pair of glasses I'm only going to wear every now and then. Not sure I want to spend the day not being able to read...which I suppose I should be okay with since my persona is illiterate. 

They might not be perfectly period, but they're not, say cat eyes or BC frames (the latter of which I discovered the hard way I cannot wear with my prescription...which is too bad because they're kind of cute on me.)

I always wondered about how people in our time period got by when they couldn't afford or otherwise get their hands on some glasses. It's one thing to just stagger around half blind, but if you're like me, visual disturbances trigger migraines. If vision correction was not available to me, I'd pretty much not be able to function. Sometimes when I am myself staggering around half blind, I wonder about what Dulcinaya would really do in period about the whole "everything looks like an impressionist painting" situation.

Dulcy
 		 	   		  
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