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Head to http://squarespace.com/minale to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain! ➤ NEWSLETTER / ESSAYS https://minale.substack.com/ ➤ PRODUCTION written by Mina Le edited by Charlee Reiff ➤ SOCIALS Instagram: http://instagram.com/gremlita TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gremlita Letterboxd: http://boxd.it/7YgX ➤ CONTACT Business email: [email protected] ➤ SOURCES Eyeglasses as a Social Status Symbol by Jacob Kaplan (2023) https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38594019 Through the Looking Glasses by Travis Elborough (2021) In the Blink of an Eye by Stefana Sabin (2021) Fashion in Eyeglasses: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day by Richard Corson (1967) https://artuk.org/discover/stories/spectacular-vision-the-symbolism-of-glasses-in-art?utm_source=chatgpt.com On spectacles and magnifying glasses: the connoisseur in action by Valérie Kobi (2021) https://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/kobi.pdf Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker (1926) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/04/looking-tinder-date-dont-wear-glasses-make-sure-show-teeth/ Making a Spectacle by Jessica Glasscock (2021) https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGlassesGottaGo The By-Product of Science Fiction by Isaac Asimov (1956) https://www.spongymesophyll.com/Asimov_1956_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf https://www.businessinsider.com/women-wearing-eyeglasses-japan-new-laws-turn-over-bans Hitchcock’s Motifs by Michael Walker (2005) https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Strangers-On-A-Train-1950-12-16-Final-Draft.pdf Better than Rubies: A History of Women's Education by Phyllis Stock (1978) https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/hindsight/article/download/24857/30812/58469 "Fashion Significances." Women's Wear Daily 63.101 (1941): 3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/07/484835077/what-did-nearsighted-humans-do-before-glasses https://health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultivating-health/blue-light-effects-on-your-eyes-sleep-and-health/2022/08 https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2023-ready-to-wear/miu-miu https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2024/federal-data-reading-pleasure-all-signs-show-slump https://thebookerprizes.com/media-centre/press-releases/international-booker-prize-and-valentino-form-new-cultural-partnership https://www.miumiu.com/us/en/miumiu-club/special-projects/miu-miu-literary-club.html https://www.luxurydaily.com/loewe-unveils-box-set-of-redesigned-literary-classics/ https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/prada-literary-salon-ottessa-moshfegh-carey-mulligan/ 0:00 - intro 5:11 - glasses as intellectual 13:34 - glasses as ugly 22:20 - glasses as chic 35:57 - conclusion