TRUE BEAUTY up to Ep11. Interesting, what I want to know is …why did Jugyeong‘s mother buy her such hideous spectacle frames? And why didn’t she get her daughter contact lenses when she was older?
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    As a life-long wearer of glasses, I can attest to the crappy taste in glasses frames I had in fourth grade. My mom cannot be to blame for those. I even put my initials at the bottom corner of one of the lenses like I was already a halmeoni.

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      Not being familiar with the word, halmeoni, I looked it up and the definition given is grandparent. I’m guessing the glasses made you look like an old person?

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        Yeah like a grandma to be precise. They looked like this:

        I think I wanted to be Jane Fonda from the movie “9 to 5”

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          Ohh, I remember those big glasses, I had a pair too, my children told me I looked like Bertie Beetle! They were “big” at the time iow they were “in”. Prior to that, my glasses were very John Lennon.

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    maybe she couldn´t afford it

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      or maybe she had no time to even shop with the restaurant and all

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      Yes, where I come from these are usually the cheapest type of glasses. And contact lenses can be very expensive. Maybe this is the reason I never have the same frustrated reaction that most beanies have to them in dramas. To me they are normal, and yes poor girls do feel ugly in them.

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    It’s kinda a trope in dramas, if you need to be portray “ugly” they will give you giant glasses, the transformation passing by lenses and not a normal pair of glasses.

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      Ah, that makes sense. The easiest, quickest, and least expensive way to make someone look ugly! The first time I wore glasses, the cheapest frames were the ugliest I had ever seen and I knew I would never wear them, no matter how cheap they were. I wouldn’t be caught dead in them. But there – that is real life, not some television drama so I got to wear the frames of my choice!

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