Gloves ...

Reading about the history of fashion is fascinating. Tonight I am paging through a book titled Accessories in the CHIC Simple series and would like to share some thoughts on gloves.
    According to authors, Kim Gross et al, "flirtatious or functional, gloves are the hats of the hand, they dramatize instantly, they can't help it. They're all about movement, so they tend to provoke."
     The next paragraph says how: "The dropped glove is a mating cry; the gauntlet, a call to combat. Gloves are the first thing to come off in the striptease. They're dangerously seductive, however genteel."
    Until now, I was not a glove person. Only wore them in winter and used to shun them in the garden and at the kitchen sink ...  These days I love them and also use them as a celebration "tool". To illustrate: When it was Julius Malema's birthday earlier this year, I arrived at my part-time library job, wearing a beige glove on my left hand.
   Gloves can change the hands dramatically. I have real Karoo hands and with age they have developed liver spots etc. but when I put on a pair of gloves from my colourful collection of charity shop finds, things change for the better because they conceal my aging hands.
     So I can't agree more with the authors of Accessories. "Worn as a spot of colour or pattern, they create instant style. Dowagers and debs wore them full-length to the ball ..."