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I've seen a few illustrations from the 18th century showing a woman with a monocle, but it would have been an older woman, and probably an unconventional one.
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January 1, 1930, Life Magazine's cover featured a beautiful woman wearing a monacle. http://www.life.com/image/82500555
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Some famous women have worn a monacle but more as an eccentricity ,I believe. Women tended more toward the Pinz Nez.
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I've seen old pictures of women wearing them too. Gauging by the way they were dressed I would say they were women of wealth though. +5
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Women did wear the monocle but it was very rare..there was a veil designed to look like a a monocle in the 1940.. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/14/outline-of-monocle-in-ladys-veil-makes-latest-fashion/ They also became popular among the stylish Lesbian circles in the early part of the 20th Century..
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I seem to recall either that literary lemon Radclyffe Hall or her wifey Una Troubridge wearing one in a photograph.
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