Will monocles ever be back in fashion?

Gitchuwon, OP!

Be style setter, not a style follower.

You’ll need a monocle pocket in your waistcoat, OP.

You might like them but eye doctors and optometrists don't.

Glasses wearer here. Finding an antique pince-nez has been on my list of things to do, for some time. I would benefit from this moreso than a monocle. But I can absolutely appreciate a monocle or lorgnette.

I heard Rex Harrison affected them off-screen as well as in this one movie.

He looks so dignified, R5.

Sure thing, Col. Klink!

Winona Ryder tried to bring them back.

Mr. Peanut wore it best!

I can imagine Roger Stone trying to affect this look.

I think walking sticks should make a come back too.

I wear two of them, and one is tinted a deep blue.

If people are rude enough to ask about my stylishness, I tell people that I have optica transientia in both eyes and congenital photophobia in one, so I have to block the light and frequently adjust both lenses, which wouldn't work with just one eye. I tell them it's a minor disability compared to many others.

If people persist in snide curiosity, I ask the if their red eye needs the tip of my walking stick up it.

The noun form is "comeback," R11. Please note I shall not "Oh, dear" you, because your heart is in the right place.

But sticks never have gone away in the right circles. I do, however, think that carrying both a walking stick and a crop at the same time is rather attention-seeking.

R3, why are The Professionals against them?

I think walking sticks should make a comeback in my city.

I walk along the footpaths declaring 'Oom-go Jo-yo Jeh' to all those who absent-mindedly walk into my path.

Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione (nee Wyse) knew how to rock a monocle-and-necklace ensemble.

R12, you sound dandy. Just dandy.

I thought they were only for lesbians anymore.

Walking sticks are wonderful for quick-and-stealthy trip-ups between the feet of interlopers, passersby who are not wearing a mask, or offensive ruffians.

If the ruffians fail to desist, evening walking sticks also have sword features. As do fashionable umbrellas.

R12, do you have a top hat?

le monocle de mon oncle

Monocle vs non-monocle.

No contest.

R13 They seemed to be say that spectacles are an important and serious visual aid and not just a toy for young queens. They tell people to wear spectacles even if one of the two eyes has perfect vision.

It's exhausting for the brain to marry up the vision from one eye with the other. It's VERY difficult to judge distance with one eye.

Monocles require the wearer to squeeze the muscles in your face to support them and it becomes painful.

Conventional modern spectacle share the weight across different parts of your head.

Wearers of monocles and pince-nez develop ugly grooves in the flesh to support the weight of the glass and metal.

Lorgnette or GTFO!

R20:

If sex were all, then every trembling hand

Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

I do leave my monocles at home when I am attending the opera or making an early, distanced survey of the wares at the meat market.

Of course.

Some lizards have a 3rd “eye” on the top of their heads that can sense light and dark and vague movement. I’d like one of those. There was a radiolab episode about a this woman who got a head injury and everyone thought she’d been blinded. But then her daughter bought her a rocking chair and it turned out she could see shapes, movement, light/dark while she was moving (rocking) but nothing while she was still.

Lorgnette = glasses on a stick.

Monocles, lorgnettes, walking sticks, and top hats must make their triumphant return!

Monocoles will never come back as long as the fashionable are still using botox, which paralyzes the muscles necessary to hold the damn thing in place.