Milford chronicle., 1896-10-16
NO NOPE light GLOVES.
Because They Give tine Hand an UgI
Shape In Time.

Because They Give the Hand an Ugly
Shape In Time.
The latest article Of wear dear to
the feminine heart that the health adj
yocates have set the seal of their dis
pleasure on is the tight-ftting glove.
This will be distressing news to many
women who would willingly deprive
themselves of expensive lingerie in or
der to wear gloves that make mere out
ward show. Women pride themselves
on exhibiting a neatly-gloved hand al
most as much as encasing their feet in
shoes which are ruinous to the natural
shape of the feet.
They are perhaps unaware that wom-
en- of the stage who pride themselves
on the appearance of their hands when
ungloved, as well as when encased in
costly gloves, do not approve pinching
them with tight gloves. Bernhard
and Terry, who are famous for the
beauty of their hands and arms, wear
long. loose-wristed gloves. Miss Ter
~ has a large hand, but it is proper
toned to her figure, and she does not
squeeze either into tight congresses.
Next to wearing tight shoes and tight
corsets, the habit of squeezing the
hands into tight gloves is perhaps the
most foolish of feminine weaknesses.
And yet interviews with prominent
glove dealers all prove that about two
thirds of their customers will insist
upon purchasing gloves from one-half
10 one full size too small for their
hands, and resent any remarks that the
clerks may make that would suggest
the abandonment of this hobby. "Why,
we are even forced TO suggest smaller
sizes, and make delicate remarks about
their tiny hands, in order oftentimes
to secure their favors," one prominent
dealer stated smilingly.
The wearers of tight gloves are not
always ignorant people by any means,
but they are invariably of a vain and
shallow type, who have no regard for
artistic beauty and who are martyrs
when it comes to physical suffering.
For there is certainly nothing much
more uncomfortable in the way of dress
than tight. squeezing, ill-ftting gloves,
with buttons straining to their ut
most tension and with the palm fairly
bullying out in mass of almost purple
flesh. which has been forced into this
unnatural position.
Women with very long fingers near
ly always buy short-fingered gloves"
the glove seller stated, ''and then, when
the sharp,pointedn nails have cutthrough |
the ends of the fingers, they bring them |
back with all manner of complaints and |
there is absolutely nothing to be said
if we wish to retain their custom. A !
very fine quality of kid is always more
flexible than a cheap quality; conse-
quently a lady who wears a No. q in
"A one dollar glove can frequently wear
a five and three-quarters in $3.50 I
quality, just as one can wear two or
more sizes of shoes in different makes
md have each fit satisfactorily. 1t is
mostly large, fleshy women who per-
iist in wearing tight gloves. They have
lad small hands originally. before they
gained their superabundance of adj
pose, and because they wore No. G
gloves at is they insist upon wearing
hem at 40; and, although the terrible
pressure on the flesh and blood vessels
makes the hands clumsy and benumbed,
hey will not relinquish this bit of
sl4nine vanity"
1t is q well-known fact that women
Who possess the whitest and most beau
iful hands always wear loose gloves.
% keep the skin soft and pliable the
Hood must have perfectly free cireula-
ion, and this cannot be when the wrist
$ encrcled with a mereiless band of
i'd and when thumb and fingers are
ramped into unnatural Positions
Washington Star.