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This series served as a bridge towards the final part which in my photo shoots always features stronger minus glasses. Daughter Juliana already posed in a strong minus pair by Fielmann and here it is mother Juliana who is plunged into the world of blur. Even in a standing position, she passed the test with ease so I felt on safe ground for the final part.

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Glasses mother Juliana: Zenni 2294
[L: -10.25; c-0.75 v / R: -10.50; c-1.50 v / bif add 2.50]

Glasses daughter Juliana: Metzler, late 1960's
[L: -0.25; c+0.75 v / R: 0; c-0.25 v / bif add 2.25]

Here mother and daughter Juliana are showing glasses with an amazing age difference of no less than four decades.
Mother Juliana is posing in a pair of Zenni glasses with a bit of history attached to it. They were the third pair of glasses I gave to my partner Nel, back in 2010. Zenni does not manufacture bifocal or progressive lenses above minus ten and as Nel has a slightly higher prescription, so I ordered just the frame and then added the reading segments that were supplied by stickonlens. The glasses had the correct prescription but Nel could not get used to the switch from her progressives to bifocals and back. However, Nel used them in a photo shoot done in 2010 (Nel 342-353) and she delivered a magnificent series. One of these portraits was subsequently edited and shown at my first photography exhibition with "Ladies behind crystal veil" in the autumn of 2010. Mother Juliana is the second model posing in these glasses.
Daughter Juliana is posing in orange bifocals made by Metzler during the late 1960's. The dividing line of the reading segments is more discrete than in the Zenni glasses but nevertheless visible. Orange was the almost exclusive frame colour for blondes during the mid 1960's when glasses were small and compact. From 1967 onwards, frames got bigger and new materials were introduced. The Neostyle glasses shown earlier on by Juliana and these Metzler bifocals were among the very last orange frames that appeared on the market.
Given the age gap of forty years, the style contrast between the Zenni and Metzler glasses is less extreme than might have been expected. In fact, Zenni produces many glasses with style elements from the past, which is great.

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More photos from the wind swept alley - mother and Juliana posing in glasses from different generations. A giant contrast in styles.
Mother Juliana is showing a large pair made in the 1980's by the house of the famous fashion designer Elisabeth von Fürstenberg. My collection only hosts a few glasses from this brand. The glasses gave Juliana fair eyesight as the lenses are not far from her own prescription. The glasses were only used in one previous photo shoot (Astrid 608).
Daughter Juliana is posing in a classic pair of vintage cat eye glasses made in the early 1960's by Algha. The lenses are trifocals and this was a novelty at the time. The first owner of the glasses was delighted when she discovered the advantage of trifocals compared with her previous bifocal glasses. Her daughter told me this when she gave me the glasses of her recently deceased mother in the mid 1990's. The glasses were only used in a few previous photo shoots (Léonne 019 on my second weblog, Bonnie and Leah on the present weblog) but instantaneously liked by the models. Over the years, I noticed that the cat eye style really has an appeal on models born long after the style vanished from the streets. Daughter Juliana was no exception and she managed a posing style that would have amazed the lady who first owned the glasses. Great!

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Glasses mother Juliana: Elisabeth von Fürstenberg, 1980's
[L: +0.50; c+1.75 h / R: +1.50; c+1.50 h]

Glasses daughter Juliana: Algha, early 1960's (trifocals)
[L: +2.75 / R: +2.25 / trif add 1.25 - 2.75]

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A photo within a shoot about prescription glasses alright, but what catches the attention is the bearing / carriage of both models, especially mother Juliana. By nature, both models have a very contrasting style of posing and this was never more effective than it is here. In my opinion, this is one of the highlights in this photo shoot and it doesn't matter that cat eye glasses play second fiddle :). Body language at its best!

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Mother and daughter Juliana in a wind swept alley just around the corner of Nel's place. Cat eye glasses have kept that nostalgic feel about them so this photo is shown here in black and white and for even more nostalgia, in sepia. The posing by both models is great.

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Glasses mother Juliana: Gan Aimh, early 1990's (cat eye)
[L=R: +0.75]

Glasses daughter Juliana: Gan Aimh, neo early 1960's (cat eye)
[L: +1.50 / R: +1.00]

Cat eye glasses were highly fashionable - arguably even the only style for ladies! - from the mid 1950's until the early 1960's. Within a couple of years, cat eye glasses had become regarded as outdated and only elderly ladies kept sporting them, especially in the UK. Several attempts have been made from time to time to resurrect the style with a modern touch but so far, ladies in cat eye glasses remain white ravens. The glasses shown by mother Juliana were acquired in Germany while daughter Juliana is posing in a pair from an Irish charity shop. Cat eye glasses, come back!