Jenny Benjamin
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actually of not being terribly well.
Oh, yes.
I agree.
Okay.
Yeah, no, no.
Well, I mean, so...
There is always a high end market, eyeglasses being no different.
And you could always get a bespoke pair or made out of gold.
And those would have been quite expensive.
But at the same time, we're talking about starting in the 1700s.
through even now, right, to today, there are cheap frames available.
They're making them out of metal, base metal, and it's just a simple pair of lenses.
The price point can really vary.
And a lot of it had to do with where you bought them.
So actually, jewelers sold eyeglasses.
Those would have been higher end.
And then your five and dime,
Now I haven't done the cost analysis, so I'm pretty sure the retail was, you know, a buck or two, but that we say that in the.
Late 1800s.
And I got to go do one of those calculus.