Gloves Have Gone the Way of the Dinosaur - Thank Goodness

I recently become the proud possessor of about a dozen pair of gloves.  Most of the gloves were white kidskin, made in Italy or France.  There were a few black pairs and one inexplicable pink pair of a color never seen in nature.  After my experience, I now know why that particular fashion is never coming back.

Here's a few of my realizations -

There are at least four glove lengths.  How did anyone keep track of which length was the appropriate length for the appropriate outfit of occasion.

Did it make a difference what the material was?  Could you only wear leather in the spring or cotton in the summer?  Did you only wear white leather in the summer, or were white gloves acceptable in the winter too.  Was leather only for winter?

Did  you need to wear a hat when you wore gloves?  How dressy did you need to be?  Did you only wear gloves with dresses?

How did you keep all those white gloves clean all the time?  It's a dirty world out there!

I'm so grateful that hats and gloves passed with the Kennedy administration.  I suspect that women who remember those days will never welcome the fashion back.

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