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1939-45  • Glasses

Advances in plastics, especially clear perspex, during the thirties and forties naturally influenced spectacle frames.
For women frames of clear and flesh tinted plastic were the latest fashion.
Although with many wearers imitation tortoiseshell or black plastic continued to be as popular as they had been in the thirties.

Left Miss June Perry • Photographer Leslie Kays Edmonton London N18

Above left date about 1942: Age about 19 years old  • Estimate: born 1923 ± 3 years