The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
NO MORE TIGHT GLOVES.
Because They Give the Hand an Ugly
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
vocates 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 wheH
ungloved, as well as when encased in
costly gloves, do not approve pinching
them with tight gloves. Bernhardt
and Terry, who are famous for the
beauty of their hands and arms, wear
long, loose-wristed gloves. Miss Ter
ry 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
TO 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 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 a 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, land then, when
the sharp, pointed nails have cut through
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 No. in
a one dollar glove can frequently wear
five and three-quarters in $3.50
quality, Just as one can wear two or
more sizes of shoes in different makes
and have each fit satisfactorily 1t is
mostly large, feshy women who per-
sist in wearing tight gloves. They have
had small hands originally, before they
gained their superabundance of adj
pose, and because they wore No. G
gloves at IS they insist upon wearing
them at 40; and, although the terrible
pressure on the flesh and blood vessels
makes the hands clumsy and benumbed
they will not relinquish this bit OF
feminine vanity"
1t is a well-known fact that women
who possess the whjtest and most beau.
tiful hands always wear loose gloves
To keep the skin soft and pliable the
blood must have perfectly free circula.
ton, and this cannot be when the wrist
is encircled with a merciless band OF
kid and when thumb and fingers arr
cramped into unnatural positions
Washington Star.
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