Pince-nez

The Zwicker is a pair of glasses without bracket, clamped via a flexible, resilient web between the glasses on his nose, the ( " tweaked " ) is. Another name is pince-nez, pince - nez according to French ( Nasenkneifer ).

Commonly the Zwicker was up to the beginning of the 20th century, mainly in the top layer and the upper middle class. Although there was already spectacles, the men of this class of society used almost exclusively Klemmer, or pince-nez pince-nez. Women preferred the lorgnette.