Threads #16: Cat-Eye Glasses
"Men don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses,” says Marilyn Monroe sagely in 1953 comedy . Monroe’s character is, by her own admission, “blind as a bat,” but in her desire to score a wealthy paramour, she stumbles, squints and pratfalls her way through the movie, convinced that her rather fetching diamante-rimmed cat-eye glasses will make her persona non grata. She meets a man on an airplane who tells her,
