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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Pink covered wire for a girl, and fake tortoise-shell if you were a boy....grim....and if you had a squint - or a lazy eye, one lens covered with Elastoplast or Zinc oxide tape.
Not a good look was it?
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Lads must have been posh down Clayton.
I remember girls wearing the pink ones, but I never saw tortoiseshell glasses.
The boys I knew wore similar ones to the girls, that were a transparent pale blue.
Glasses were also referred to as gigs, or bins,
Happily the pink for a girl, blues for a boy spectacles, seem to have been binned nowadays.