Jenny Benjamin

We call them double hinged today because basically the temples were manufactured so that they went over your ear and around the back.

And they would sometimes tie in the back.

Well, they did do that.

They did affix them with hairpins.

Ladies did that.

Men would chain them to their lapels through the 1900s because nose pads, honestly –

weren't started to be used until the 1820s.

But it is a bit of a manufacturing marvel.

I mean, that's an invention right there.

In the 1820s, they began to manufacture a type of eyeglasses called pince-nez.

Those come out of France.

So, of course, they have a French name, but it means pinched nose.

And there are tons of patents for different types of nose pads that would literally pinch the nose to keep the eyeglasses on.

So it's from these that our nose pads evolved, our modern nose pads.

Well, we do have some historical pieces like that.

Padong?

Padong?

And lorgnettes are handheld eyeglasses.

They were first invented in 1785.

And it's French again, because lorgnette is, right?