The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-09-07
Gloves.
Saturday,.

woe betide the unlucky bride who neg
lects single one, for his or her revenge
would follow the young wife throughout
her whole life, however distant her home
might be. To provide, therefore, for the
utmost emergency, a girl begins early in
life to lay by dozens and dozens of gloves
of her own knitting ready for the eventtul
dav. In most countries it is still custom
airy to give white gloves to menials on a
wedding day, but these need not be
worked, stitched, or knitted by the brides
own fair fingers. 1t is also usual to give
gloves at christening; and abroad, es
pecially in Switzerland, it is the god
mother who presents them, rather revers-
ing the laws of gallantry. The custom Of
giving gloves at funerals is also very old,
though now it is generally restricted to
the mourners. Thus, in almost every age
and country, the glove has been linked
with love, marriage, birth and death. 1t
has also formed the theme of many q 70
nance and poem, and it has more than
once proved a powerful instrument of re-
venge in the hands of jealousy and hatred /;
poisoned gloves being at one time but too
frequently used as the means whereby TO
dispose of hated rival. The Medici
knew the fatal secret, alas! too well, and
pitilessly used it to safe their cruel pas
sions.
Cosmetic gloves, with thick lining of
paste whereby 70 soften and Whiten the
hands, were also much favored at one time,
and, | believe, may still be had in these
days, and are eagerly bought by some
ladies, who regularly wear them at night,
though where they are to be procured
cannot tell.
But let Us return to every day life and
to gloves, IS we find them. White kid
gloves should be especially reserved for
occasions of the greatest ceremony: on all
other occasions they are out of place,
common and vulgar, and white gloves must
never be Of any material but kid. Next
to white kid gloves, straw cOlored are the
most drassy, Tor they look almost white
by night, and may 0e worn when white
may not for fetes, small evening parties,
etc. Straw colored gloves have often
played considerable parts in fashionable
novels, just as gauntlets did in old
romances, and since Pelham headed the
list, every novelist for a long period
thought himself compelled to glove his
heroes and heroines in straw cOlored kids
But lavender has now usurped the place
of straw, especially with gentlemen, who
dance in them | say bad taste, be ause
every custom must be in bad taste how
ever fashionable it may be, if it be pro-
ductive of damage or injury to Others, and
though gentlemen may not generally
know it, lavender kid gloves often spoil
their partners dresses; who frequently
cannot wear second time dress body
after it has been held by hands encased in
lavender.
Black gloves should only be worn in
mourning, and never at any other time,
under any preteXt whatever. Ladi. S who
are forced to study economy may select
useful dark shades for gloves, but never
black, black gloves being exclusively re-
served for mourning. 1t was Count d Or
say, | think, who used to say that the sight
of black gloves made him shudder Apro-
pos of Count d'Orsay, it is also said that
he used to regularly wear four pairs of
new gloves day, of different quality and
color, according to different times and
places. Indeed, it is popular belief on
the Continent, that every gentleman wears
at least three pairs OF new gloves day.
must here confess my ignorance On this
point. therefore can neither aft m nor denv
it; should it be correct, however, should
say that it must make tolerably unplea-
SAINT inroad into many restricted inc Dme.
AS rule, gloves should always be a
shade lighter than the dress with which
they are worn, never darker; dark gloves
with light dresses are most offensive to the
eye.
To return to black gloves for a moment,
| must here remark that abroad, where
rules respecting mourning are much more
strict than in England, black kid gloves
are not allowed during the first stage of
mourning. Black kid is shining, and
deepmourning should avoid all that shines :;
thus black woollen gloves are alone allow
ed under these circumstances. At the Bur
gundian Court gloves were not allowed at
all during mourning. 1t would appear by
that that gloves were considered entirely
as objecs of vanity, like powder and
rouge, which likewise were prohibited
during mourning.
For general Wear, neutral tints are the
best for gloves, and above al, the Swedish
kid glove in its natural tan-color. There
is no glove like 1t for usefulness, eleeance,
and economy. They may be worn at all
hours, and with all dresses, excepting
evening dress.
In the event of embroidered gloves or
mittens returning into fashion, il will be
as well to remark here that embroidery
should always correspond with the natural
shape of the hard-flowers and symbols,
such as TWO hands united, should be
scrupulously avoided. Lines and srabesques
are the most appropriate patterns for
glove embroidery,-lines tend to make the
hands look narrow, and therefore are pre-
ferred to any other style of working.
The first requisit for glove is that it
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cut according 10 the hand IN fact, the
hands should be measured for gloves as
the feet are for boots. In France it has
long been customary TO measure for gloves,
and TIRE are not few establishments in
London which adopt similar fashion.
The art of cutting out glove is one
excelled in by the French, and
is most difflcult in execution. Indeed,
there is an old proverb which saws that it
takes three kingdoms TO make one glove:
Spain to provide the kid, France to cut If
out, and England to sew it. The French
have particular art in economical cut
ting, ard can cut three pairs of gloves out
of the same quantity of kid that an Eng
lishman can scarcely cut two. CONSEQUENT
ly French gloves ought to be cheaper than
English, but they are not. The Germans,
though their kind is rapidly rivaling Span,
ish kid, and though they sew as well as
the English, are quite ignorant of the art
Of cutting, consequently they are as yet
unable to make good gloves.
II glove is not TO disieure a hand, it
should be made of the softest and most
elastic kid, that wi lend itself to every
natural movement of the hand: and the
best color, as already stated. is the natural
light tan-color Of the kid itself. In for
mer romantic days, young ladies wore
gloves the color they wished their hands
20 be, and tIied TO initiate the rose I'm eered
goddess by wearing lose colored gloves.
But we sre more matter of fact in these
days, and, think, more natural-Coyres
pendent IA Land and Wdter.
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eggs went as baggage on the Knoxville
Railroad in Tennessee recentIv