Be-glassed

Why, why do people who wear pinc-nez or spectacles insist upon keeping them on to be photographed in? asks a critic. Anything more disastrous cannot be imagined. That simple detail will ruin the otherwise most successful portrait ever taken. And yet the be-glassed one clings to her glasses nine times out of ten and will not be parted from them.

Victor, who wears glasses herself on occasion, scoffs at the idea of hiding the be-glassed visage under a brimmed hat.

Bryan Tewell Hughes is slight, white, be-glassed and in possession of a baggy sweater and armpit-length hair that evidently sways with the wind.