Oddly, I have lately come to understand the monocle. I did the LASIK thing to get rid of my glasses for myopia, and now deal with reading glasses for close up stuff. But now, there is LASIK that burns one eye for distance and the other for close up if the owner of the eyeballs in question can swap their master eye for distance and for close-up as required. And this is exactly what the monocle did.Shatterface wrote:A suitable signifier for a doctor would be a monocle.
They tell everyone that you are a person who spends a great deal of time looking through microscopes, and the pause in conversation while you pop yours on before giving someone a bollocking is enough to tell your underlings that shit is about to get real.
If you really want to get into ocular signifiers, we shall have to discuss the pince-nez, which are also very convenient and useful in surprising ways.