The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-01-25
as TO A MANS GLOVES.


as TO A MANS GLOVES.
- How much do men spend in a
year for gloves?" repeated a dealer
in mems furnishing goods. "Well,
that depends.
A man of ample means who had
no need to count the cost and at the
same time gave careful attention to
dress, would buy in the course of a
year a good many gloves. He buys
gloves suitable for every occasion and
use and for every season. Of some
gloves he may buy dozen, or half a
/ dozen pairs at time.
Some men never wear a pair of
gloves more than two weeks and, OF
course, it might easily be that some
times man could wear a pair of
gloves but once; as in the case of
white kid gloves when worn in sum
mer.
For ordinary purposes a man of
abundant means and careful as to his
attire would wear in summer glove
Of heavy Cape goat, light tan in color.
In some circumstances actually worn,
these gloves would more commonly
be carried in the hand and four or
five pairs, costing So. so a pair, would
last him through the summer.
AT this season he wears a dress
suit less commonly, and so requires
fewer white gloves and thus, though
he should be able to wear pair but
once, he may get through the summer
with dozen pairs of white kid, stitch
ed with white or with black, al. Sc. so
pair.
In summer he will buy, for driv-
ing, gloves with tan Isle thread backs
and tan kid face, three or four pairs
at 81. so pair. This would about
complete the list of gloves required
for ordinary summer uses.
with the first touch of GOODNESS in
the air in the fall he would begin
steadily to wear gloves such as he had
carried through the summer, and thus
wearing them, he would now require
a greater number; in the course of
the winter season twelve pairs of Cape
goat, at So. so.
Some men wear always the same
kind of gloves and then there are men
who like little variety and who buy
also, in the course of season, per-
haps three pairs of gloves of gray
reindeer, costing 81 a pair.
"For driving, in the colder season,
the man of ample means wears, in the
fall, grip driving gloves of heavy dog
skin, two or three pairs he uses, at
S. pair. For winter driving he may
wear fur-lined reindeer gloves, in
which case he would be likely to use
two pairs at So a pair. Or he might
buy fur gauntlets, of which there are
various kinds, ranging in price from
$40 to $40.
eff he wore gauntlets he would be
likely to use but a single pair in a
season this being the only sort of a
glove of which he uses so small num-
Der. If you were to set down the
cost of his fur driving gloves at SIS
you would be putting it at very rea-
sonable figure
"For riding he would wear the
gloves he ordinarily wore out of doors,
his street gloves. For golfng he
would wear gloves with a Cape goat
front and ventilated back of white
buck, with no knuckles, of which he
would buy in a season two pairs at
So. so pair.
with a frock coat a man would
wear gloves Of gray suede or of light
tan, of which he would require two
or three pairs, the price of either be-
ing 81. so pair. OF white kid gloves
to wear with evening dress, and these
gloves he might at this time of the
year be able to wear three days, he
would require in the winter season
two dozen pairs at $50 dozen.
He would require in the course of
the season, for use when he wore a
dinner jacket, two pairs of dark grey
suede gloves, at S.. so pair, and for
use when wearing dinner jacket to
the opera, three or four pairs of white
cheverette, goat glove, costing S. a
pair.
Now, if you were to jot these all
up in little table it would show at
glance just how many gloves the
man would buy in the course of a