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Jenny Benjamin

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271 total appearances

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Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

So it depended on, I think, the lady.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

But in a day and age when there was no air conditioning and you were in a tight outfit, right?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

And you needed to be either revived from overheating or, right, there's the possibility that not everybody else around you had bathed recently, right?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

So perfume makes perfect sense.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

And then you could use your little spyglass to see if you wanted to get closer to somebody, right?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

No, that was a thing.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Sure.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

That was a thing.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Yeah, there's evidence.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Manufacture of eyeglasses in America starts very early.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

When we say manufacturer, we usually mean the frames.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

The lenses were imported for a long time until about World War I. Oh, wow.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

It's made in America, but...

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

More like assembled in America?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Yeah.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Okay.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

We're going to just leave that there.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Leave that there.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

But cowboys, yeah, had just as much access.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Eyeglasses could be mail ordered.