The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-28
FACTS ABOUT GLOVES.
They Are Not Always What They Are Req
resented to Be.

They Are Not Always What They Are Rep.
resented to Be.
She stood in front of the glove coun-
ter in one Of the large uptown stores
and STRETCHED out q dainty hand to be
fitted with pair OF gloves She wens
away half an hour afterward satisfied
that she had the highest-priced kid
glove in the store. But she was mis-.
taken. What she had bought was much
nearer sheepskin than the skin Of the
infant goat People accept the state
ment that every glove is kid that bears
that name, while in fact on small
percentage of the gloves sold as such
are the genuine kid. The reason is
plain. Millions of kid gloves are de-
manded, while only few goats, COM
paratively, are raised in the world, and
of these large number must be kept
until full grown for breeding purposes
The demand for gloves is much greater
than the supply Of genuine skins, and
substitute is found in the lambskin,
which makes an excellent grade Of
glove, and is easily pGlmed off for kid.
Genuine kid gloves can be obtained at
a high price, but thousands who think
they are wearing kid have only lamb
skin.
The tradesman who would inform a
young man that his gold-colored gloves
had nothing to do with the covering of
the dog, but were simply made of sheep
skin, would probably soon lose his Gus
tom, for many purchasers think that
the hide of the dog supplies the ma
ter al for their g.ove5. although in
reality very little dogskin is used.
Lately, however, the difficulties of
dressing it have been overcome,
and now some excellent gloves are made
of real dogskin, but the quantity is not
very large. Only the finer grades OF
skins are suited to street wear, the
heavier skins being dressed in oil for
hard usage.
As might be supposed, very many Of
the popular gloves have names that to
a degree indicate the material of which
they are made although in some in
stances the terms are misleading if ap-
piled literally. The popular ooze glove
is really made of ooze calf, very fine,
light skins being selected, and is dis
tinguished by its soft, velvety feeling,
and is identically the same material as
has been so popular during the past
year for fancy foot wear. The fine,
dressy street glove. known as the chew
rette, is, as the name indicates, from
young goatskins, and Is as expensive as
it Is dressy and stylish. Some years
ago experiments were tried in Paris
with ratskins for gloves but, as the
largest skins were too small for any ex-
cept child's glove, and too tender to
be Of any service, their use was soon
abandoned
Castor gloves have had quite his
tory. The word indicates the skin Of
the beaver, but the best French castor
gloves were formerly made Of thin deer
skin, and were soft, durable and expen-
sive. Shaved lamb or sheep skins were
displaced by American casters made of
antelope skins from our Western plains.
They are sewed with silk and are hand
some and durable. Recently new leather
was brought out called Mocha castor.
1t is the skin of the Egyptian sheep
and Is very thin, tough and durable. and
has q rich. velvety appearance. Colt
skin Is new for gloves, and is smooth,
fine leather. suitable for in or out door
wear.-N Y. Sun.