In Hablot Knight Browne's illustrations for the first edition, Micawber is shown wearing knee-breeches, a top hat, and a monocle.

Von Skarin is cold and cruel but never neglects his elegant appearance, as he's usually seen wearing expensive fur coats and a monocle on his right eye.

The Count bears a noticeable resemblance to Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, including a similar accent and oversized, pointed canine teeth ( better known as fangs, although Lugosi himself did not bear fangs in the 1931 film ), but it would appear that he is different from other vampires, besides sporting a goatee and monocle.

The Prince, a vague Cab Calloway lookalike, is depicted as a slender, zoot suited Black man with straightened hair, a monocle, and gold teeth ( with dice in place of the front two incisors ).

This show is known by fans for numerous technical mistakes ( including Madonna forgetting part of the lyrics to " Sooner or Later " and " Material Girl ," getting her monocle caught on her headset microphone at the beginning of " Express Yourself ", and not realizing that her headset microphone was still live as she exited the stage after " Where's the Party ," resulting in her command at a backstage crewmember to " get the fuck out of my fuckin ' way ").

A monocle is a type of corrective lens used to correct or enhance the vision in only one eye.

The other end of the string is then connected to the wearer's clothing to avoid losing the monocle.

If they were customised then they could be worn securely with no effort, though periodic adjustment is a fact of life for monocle wearers to keep the monocle from popping, as can be seen in films featuring Erich von Stroheim.

The popular perception was ( and still is ) that a monocle could easily fall off with the wrong facial expression.

This is true to an extent, as raising the eyebrow too far will allow the monocle to fall.

The quizzing glass should not be confused with a monocle since it is held to one's eye with a handle, in a similar fashion to a lorgnette, and not by the eye socket itself.

Another significant contribution to the decline of the monocle is that some health organisations ( specifically Britain's National Health Service, but possibly others, in their local contexts ) would not fund prescriptions for monocles, even when the prescribing optometrist recommended a monocle.

Earth-19 ( the Gotham by Gaslight universe ), set in a Victorian-like era, has its own version of Dan Garrett who in his secret identity is the leading Egyptologist at the Gotham Museum of Natural History and wears a monocle, appearing in The Search for Ray Palmer: Gotham by Gaslight.

Gunther slips on the doilies and is revealed as Count Olaf when his boots and monocle fly off, revealing his eyebrow and tattoo.

* Henrietta " Heinrich " Von Marzipan ( voiced by Dee Bradley Baker and Candi Milo )-He is Numbuh 5's chubby German candy-hunting rival with blonde hair, blue eyes and a monocle.

When he appears in the Blandings books, he is in his mid-to late-fifties, has thick grey hair and wears a black-rimmed monocle on a black ribbon.

Monty is a miner by trade and sports a monocle throughout the series, up until Impossamole, which features a completely different rendition of the character.

As Tom wipes the tomato off his face, he is promptly covered in egg, with one hit to the eye leaving the effect of him wearing a monocle.

He looks like Barnaby, but is much older, with a moustache ( which he occasionally brushes with his hands ), and wears a monocle and a pith helmet.

They are shown to occupy two sides of the same tree, and each character's home is marked with a sign — Heckle is clearly designated as the Brooklyn magpie with his jaunty porkpie hat, and Jeckle dons an English-looking bowtie, monocle and straw boater.

In fact, the appearance of his head as a floating hat and monocle is actually him rendering his decayed face invisible.

Whistler had a distinctive appearance, short and slight, with piercing eyes and a curling mustache, often sporting a monocle and the flashy attire of a dandy.

In some variant productions numerous other characters sport the distinctive eye-wear, and some noted performers of the " G & S " repertoire also have worn a monocle.

Bock stated the Reichswehr wanted no part in Buckrucker ′ s putsch and that " If von Seeckt knew you were here, he would screw his monocle into his eye and say " Go for him!

Combined with a morning coat and a top-hat, the monocle completed the costume of the stereotypical 1890s capitalist.

" The makeup and costume adopted by the first Bunthorne, George Grossmith, used the velvet jacket of Swinburne, the hair style and monocle of the painter James McNeill Whistler, and knee-breeches similar to those worn by Oscar Wilde and others.

The magazine's first cover illustration, a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, was drawn by Rea Irvin, the magazine's first art editor, based on an 1834 caricature of the then Count d ' Orsay which appeared as an illustration in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Famous wearers today include astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, and former boxer Chris Eubank Abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman wore a monocle mainly for getting a closer look at artworks.

After spending three weeks at number one on the Billboard Magazine charts, Chandler purchased a cape, a monocle, a top hat and a cane and became " The Duke of Earl ".

There are three styles of monocle.

A sub-category of the galleried monocle was the " sprung gallery ", where the gallery was replaced by an incomplete circle of flattened, ridged wire supported by three posts.

The introduction shows Hale & Pace in an early 20th century setting with Hale wearing an old hat and Pace wearing a monocle.

Joseph Chamberlain wearing a monocle

Some famous figures who wore a monocle include the British politicians, Joseph Chamberlain, his son Austen, Henry Chaplin and Angus Maude.

Bunthorne wears a monocle and has prominent white streaks in his dark hair, as did Whistler.

In one episode it shows him sleeping with the monocle in, but in another, he wakes up and puts it on.

In another vein G. E. M. Anscombe was one of only a few noted women who occasionally wore a monocle.

Richard Tauber wore a monocle to mask a squint in one eye.

He was subject to asthma, which recurred throughout his life, and was nearly blind in one eye, which caused him to wear a monocle when he was in his twenties.

also wore a monocle and was one of the best-dressed men in the nation – quite a sight among farmers in bib overalls and bankers in off-the-rack suits.

He resembles a large blue beardly old bomberman with a letter B on his forehead and wears one gold monocle over his left eye and has a belt, gloves and a red cape.