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Lindakron
Sweet Inspiration
Canada
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 Posted - 25/04/2007 : 23:13:29
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I was just kind of curious whether Dusty was near-sighted or far-sighted. The reason why, is because you can see in live performances how she interacts with the audience (classic example is all those times during the RAH concert where certain members of the audience would make her laugh). So she obviously could see them well enough... was she wearing contact lenses or was she just far-sighted? I am near-sighted and I know that without my contact lenses in, I could never have seen as far as the front row in that concert hall, it would just be a wall of fuzz, lol.
~Linda~
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25/04/2007 : 23:31:55
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I always thought that Dusty was short-sighted, Linda.
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
9401 Posts |
Posted - 25/04/2007 : 23:38:03
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She was short sighted, I remember reading it sometimes made it easier for her to be on stage when she couldn't see the audience so well
Did she ever wear contact lenses later in her career, when better ones had been developed?
Maybe she just wasn't that short sighted. I'm short sighted and there's no way I'd be able to get around without glasses or lenses, I can't even see the floor where I'm walking. I'd so get run over.
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Lindakron
Sweet Inspiration
Canada
2740 Posts |
Posted - 26/04/2007 : 03:02:28
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But how the heck did she manage with the audience then??? 
I thought I heard/read that she wore contact lenses later in her career, when they were more advanced and not such a royal pain in the arse as the earlier versions of lenses were.
~Linda~
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 26/04/2007 : 13:44:34
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Have you not seen the clip at the start of her career, when she is in her dressing room and the Interviewer asks about her eyesight?
She looks in the mirror from about a metre away and says that she can't see her face clearly.
THAT is bad eysight!...
She couldn't wear contact lenses when she wore ALL that eye-makeup.
Maybe she did later on, when better lenses had been developed, and her liking for TONS of eye-makeup waned.
Carole xx
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Lindakron
Sweet Inspiration
Canada
2740 Posts |
Posted - 26/04/2007 : 17:15:51
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Originally posted by Carole R.
Have you not seen the clip at the start of her career, when she is in her dressing room and the Interviewer asks about her eyesight?
She looks in the mirror from about a metre away and says that she can't see her face clearly.
THAT is bad eysight!...
Yes, I did see that clip, so it confused me even more! 
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Maybe she did later on, when better lenses had been developed, and her liking for TONS of eye-makeup waned.
Carole xx
Ya, that's about the only way to explain it, I think... lol. 
~Linda~
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Pablito
Wishing And Hoping
Ireland
465 Posts |
Posted - 26/04/2007 : 20:59:54
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Apart from some photos of when she was a child - I've never seen any photos of Dusty wearing spectacles. Can anyone enlighten us???
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Lindakron
Sweet Inspiration
Canada
2740 Posts |
Posted - 26/04/2007 : 21:02:07
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I wonder what the big deal is, in show biz, like, why can't people wear glasses? lol John Denver and John Lennon seemed to pull it off without anyone noticing...
~Linda~
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 27/04/2007 : 20:43:56
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Originally posted by Lindakron
I wonder what the big deal is, in show biz, like, why can't people wear glasses? lol John Denver and John Lennon seemed to pull it off without anyone noticing...
~Linda~
...Yep, and so did Nana Mouskouri who was the flavour of the month for a while...
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 27/04/2007 : 20:48:06
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I know that there are a few pics out there of Dusty wearing Specs.
It'd be lovely if any of you can post one, two or even THREE...
Pretty Please?...
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TMAK
Wasn't Born To Follow
USA
5178 Posts |
Posted - 28/04/2007 : 03:14:54
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Here's one with our Douggie:
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marg
Sweet Inspiration
2686 Posts |
Posted - 28/04/2007 : 09:48:22
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I think in strict medical terms,Dusty was "as blind as a bat". 
Oh... and there was NO way Dusty was gonna wear glasses out in public.Remember,she felt the NHS spectacles she had to wear as a child were hideous.She wanted to move as far away from 'frumpy,bespectacled Mary'... bit of a no-brainer really.
Thankyou.
As you were.
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
13792 Posts |
Posted - 28/04/2007 : 10:04:52
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Thanks for posting the pic of a bespectacled Dusty with Douggie T ...
Its one of my faves...
I'm even nosey enough to wonder which piece of music they were discussing!...
Carole R xx |
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