#monocle

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Info from Grand Comics Database

During the nineteenth century, the handle disappeared and the lens migrated into the eye socket, where it remained through a combination of facial tension, careful fitting and sheer social determination. The monocle became particularly popular among aristocrats, diplomats and military officers in continental Europe, although some lenses contained no prescription at all. They corrected social standing rather better than eyesight. By the early twentieth century, however, the device had accumulated so much symbolic baggage that wearing one practically announced the possession of a title, a private income and an opinion about the lower orders. Ordinary spectacles were more comfortable, more useful and considerably less likely to fall into the consommé. The monocle gradually retreated from daily life into caricature, costume and cinema, where it survives as one of history’s most economical character descriptions: a small circle of glass capable of making almost anyone completely insufferable.

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The King's Man (2021) Daniel Brühl as Erik Jan Hanussen