Men seldom make passes At girls, who wear glasses. — Dorothy Parker
A girl who is bespectacled Don’t even get her nectacled. — Ogden Nash
These famed couplets, to the certain knowledge of men of wide ocular experience, are as misleading as most generalizations. It has now been scientifically indicated that men definitely prefer girls, as well as men, who wear glasses.
Psychologist George R. Thornton of Purdue University photographed 20 men & women with glasses and without. Then he paired the pictures and tried them on 200 judges. The subjects made a better impression wearing glasses than bareface.
Explanation : the spectacled faces gave the judges a stronger sense of intelligence, dependability, industry, honesty.
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