Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08
NO MORE TIGHT GLOVES
They Give the Hand an Ugly Shape IN
Time.
Next to Tight Shoes, Close Fitting
Hand Gear 10 Thought to
BE Most Foolish.

The latest article Of wear dear to the
feminine heart that the health advocates
have set the seal, of their displasure on is
the tight-f1tting glove.
This will be distressing news to many
women who would willingly deprive them
selves OF expensive lingerie in order to
wear gloves that make more outward show.
women pride themselves on exhibiting q
neatly gloved hand almost as much as en-
casing their feet in shoes which are ruin
Gus to the natural shape of the feet. If
tney were content to merely have the glove
neatly gloved hand almost as much as in
deavor to force their hands into smaller
sizes. In doing this they are perhaps I'M
aware that women of the stage who pride
TIE mseives on the appearance of their
nands when ungloved. as we'll as when in
c ciseh,n IN costly gloves, do not approvs of
pine them with tight gloves. Bern
harot and Terry, who are famous for the
beauty OF their hands and arms, wear long.
,oose-wrlsted gloves. Miss Terry has a
iarge hand, but it is in proportion to her
ilgure, and she does not squeeze either into
tlght congresses
Next to wearing tight SHOES and tight
corsets, the habit Of squeezing the hands
into tgnt gloves is perhaps the most fool
ish OF feminine weaknesses And yet in
tervlews with prominent glove dealers all
prove that about two-rhirds of their Gus
TONER'S will insist upon purchasing gloves
tneir hands. and resent any remarks that
ne clerks may make that would suggest
.ne abandonment of this hobby. why.
we are even forced to suggest sn,aIIer
sizes. and make delicate remarks about
.He'r 1lny hands. in order oftentimes to
secure their favors," one prominent dealer
stated. smilngly.
The wearers Of tight gloves are not al
ways ignorant people, by any MEANS but
tney are invariably Of vain and shallow
Epe VINO have no regard for artistic
beauty and are martyrs when 1t comes to
physical suffering. For there is certainly
nothing much more uncomforta BILE in the
way OF dress than tight squeezing, ill-ftting
gloves, with buttons straining 10 their ut
MOST tension and with the palm fairly
Dulg1ng out in a mass of almost p,rple
flesh which has been forced into this nm
natural position
Women with very long fingers nearly
always buy short-ffngered gloves" another
shern s seller, stated, land then when the
SHARP pointed nails have cut through the
en EMS OF the fingers they bring them back
with all manner of complaints and there ia
apsolutely nothing to be said, IL we wish
10 retain their custom. A very fine quality
of kid is always more flexible than chean
quanty, consequently a lady who wears a
number six in 81 glove can frequently
wear nve and three-quarters in a $3.50
SEES ~ s shst as one can wear two or more
eech mt satisfactorily. 1t is mostly large,
nesny women who persist in wearing tight
groves: Ihey have had small hands oripi-
nally, before they gained their superabund
ance OF adipose and because they wore
number six gloves at eighteen, they insist
upon wearing them at forty; and although
the terrible pressure on the flesh and blood
vessels makes The han1s clumsy and ha-
numbed. they win not relinquish this bit
or feminine vanity
1t Is well-known fact that women who
possess the Whitest and most beautiful
hands. always wear loose gloves. To keen
the skin soft and pliahle, the blood must
nave perfectly free circulation and this
cannot be when the wrist is encircled
win merciless band Of kid and when
natural positions