Leah 183 - 184

Blended myodisc (also called Lentilux) lenses were an invention of the early 1980's, offering people with extreme myopia a more aesthetic alternative for the traditional Kreislenti myodisc with an all too visible circle shaped "bowl" and a surrounding carrier lens. In my youth, there were no contact lenses so everyone with extreme myopia was seen in Kreislenti glasses. I clearly remember girls and women seemed quite shy when anyone out of the know looked at them in the streets - as if wearing such glasses was a stigma. In the late 1960's, an alternative called Formlenti was invented and while these glasses gave their owners a less handicapped impression, it remained clear that this was a "final solution" for anyone with a prescription so strong that it was impossible to fit their glasses with ordinary lenses. This all changed with the invention of blended myodisc lenses. The first lady I ever saw in a pair of Lentilux glasses seemed quite confident and besides, the glasses looked great on her. Not just great but fascinating - the lenses seemed to play magic tricks that changed with the slightest movement of her head. Lentilux glasses - now virtually extinct - seem to have been more "popular" in Germany than anywhere else in the world. Most glasses of this type in my collection came from Germany. Here Leah is showing some of the intricacies of Lentilux lenses in a well chosen frame made by Nigura about two decades ago.