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Just out of curiosity, wouldn't putting a corrective lense over one eye result in serious strain? -- Kizor 21:33, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Not if you only have one eye screwed up. Some people have different strength of vision in their eyes
- You're right, thanks. It's easy to miss that on the basis of the stereotype. Nowadays that's handled by glasses that only correct one eye; I guess they're relatively recent. -- Kizor 16:27, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Monocle magazine is pretty hard to find. I live in Seattle. There is not a library within 500 miles with a collection. I think it would be worth writing more about (also, there is a related outstanding question at Talk:radical middle.) Here's a list of North American libraries that have it. Would anyone be willing to take this up? -- Jmabel 18:40, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)
CA -CALIFORNIA STATE UNIV, LOS ANGELES vol: 5-6 1963-1964
CA -STANFORD UNIV LIBR
CA -UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SHIELDS LIBR
CA -UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
CA -UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
CO -UNIV OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
CT -UNIV OF CONNECTICUT vol: 1:2,2:2-6:5 1957/19??
CT -YALE UNIV LIBR
IA -GRINNELL COL vol: 1-6 1957-1966
IN -INDIANA UNIV
IN -PURDUE UNIV
KS -KANSAS STATE UNIV
KY -UNIV OF KENTUCKY LIBR
KY -UNIV OF LOUISVILLE
MI -MICHIGAN STATE UNIV vol: 2-6 1958-1967
MN -UNIV OF MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS V.2-4 all inc.; v.5; v.6
NC -UNIV OF N CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL
NY -BUFFALO & ERIE CNTY PUB LIBR vol: 5-6 1963-1967
NY -NEW YORK PUB LIBR RES LIBR
OH -OHIO STATE UNIV
TX -TEXAS TECH UNIV vol: 5-6 1963-1964
TX -UNIV OF HOUSTON vol: 6
TX -UNIV OF TEXAS, TARLTON LAW LIBR
UT -BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIV LIBR vol: 2,5-6.
VA -UNIV OF VIRGINIA
ON -MCMASTER UNIV
moronocle http://ken.coar.org/gallery/mugshots/Ken_Coar_974x976
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[edit] Why!?
If monacles were a status symbol, that means even men who didn't have the specific "single bad eye" problem. It is ridiculous to wear a monacle! Like Hot Pants! Havantus 16:21, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Personaly I like them, personal prefference and popular fashion are important factors. 68.62.233.226 (talk) 05:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Teddy Roosevelt
Surely there should be a mention of this most famous wearer of monocles? 70.16.18.49 02:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Teddy Roosevelt wore pince nez spectacles , not a monocle. Edgewise 22:26, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I know that Eric von Stroheim wore a monocle when playing as an actor a German officer in some movies. But otherwise? The same question for Conrad Veidt (the German officer in Casablanca)
Maurice Van Meenen 15:45, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Nazi
Why must a Nazi lead off this section? I found the image jarring when I opened the page. sæ (talk) 21:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Why indeed?
I am curious about monocle wearers. I've never heard of anyone in modern times who has vision bad enough in one eye, yet good enough in the other to require a prescription in only one side of glasses or one contact lens. Was the monocle intended for people with one eye requiring correction but the other eye fine? How could the monocle become so common as to be a sterotypical symbol of anything given its purpose for such a seemingly rare situation?
The article suggests the monocle went out of style "in large part to advances in optometry which allow for better measurement of refractive error, so that glasses and contact lenses can be prescribed with different strengths in each eye". This doesn't make sense to me, as while advances would allow better measuring, I don't see how advances would stop anyone from making down lenses in a pair of glasses different strength unless technology only allowed for one universal strength of lens for everyone (if you could make two pairs of glasses different strength, surely you could make two lenses in one pair different strentgh). Either way, a monocle seems to me to only be a useful device for someone who has one eye that doesn't require ANY correction, right? That seems like an unusual situation. TheHYPO (talk) 07:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Current picture
To anyone who is interested: A lot of people [ 1 ](mainly anti-Nazi's), don't like the fact that the wearer of the monocle in the picture is a "Nazi". I know there is WP:CENSOR, and I couldn't care less if there was a Nazi in the pic, but really, what do Nazi's have to do with monocles? Calvin 1998 (t-c) 05:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- Actually, the article is pretty clear that monocles were actually very popular in German society during that time period. Germans of wealth and power tended to wear monocles as a status symbol and, during this era, powerful Germans also tended to be members of the Nazi party. Also, let's face it, free-use pictures of men with monocles are rather hard to come by. We use what we have and ot's an excellent picture illustrating a monocle in use, which is why it leads. As for the rest, in the words of a Wikipedian I have a lot of respect for: "To paraphrase Archimedes, give me a place to stand, and I will offend the Earth". It's a picture of a guy with a monocle, who just also happened to be a Nazi. Get over it. -- ShinmaWa(talk) 07:48, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- As I said above, I personally don't have a problem with it... I'm requesting on behalf of that questioner ... Calvin 1998 (t-c) 14:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
