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I don't understand how Ted thinks she's going to "see a lot of him" without them. There are contact lenses in 1939, but not for country cousins of spoiled heiresses.
From what I've read over the years, until the '70s, contact lenses were thick, rigid and, for most users, meaningfully uncomfortable. As always, some people adjusted well, but for the majority who tried them, they couldn't stick with them.
I started wearing them in the '80s when they had already advance to thin, permeable, moist pieces of plastic and even that took some getting used to. And since it was a time of advancement, the contacts I wore in the early '90s (after that I had laser surgery and stopped needing contacts) were much better - thinner, much-less irritating - than the ones I started with. I can't even imagine what those '39 contacts were like.
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