The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-16
OF INTEREST TO, WOMEN
THE PUTTING ON OF GLOVES PROP
ERLY Is AN ART, SAYS A DEALER.
Some Good Advice to wouId-Be Sing
ers-AnnOying Habits of Speech
Etiquette of Stationery.

How to put on gloves?" said the head Of
the glove department of of the big
shops yesterday, repeating my query, says
a writer in the Philadelphia Times. Let
us so back a little further and start with
the way TO select gloves. When a woman
steps up to the glove counter and asks to
be fitted she should be careful not only to
get the correct size of her hand apparel,
but glove which conforms to her particu-
lar type of hand. She may have a long
slender hand with tapering fingers, or she
may have a short, plump one with short
fingers. In selecting her gloves she should
bear this in mind. 1t is no longer good form
to wear tight gloves. A woman should new
er wear a glove of which she cannot close
the first button comfortably and securely.
The vogue of the heavy cape skin gloves
has done much to educate women to prop
erly-fitting hand apparel. The well-dressed
woman never crowds her hand into tight
fitting glove that makes the flesh look
cramped and compressed, with the result
that the hand looks really larger than if it
were incased in a glove of proper size.
"Now we come to the question of how to
put on gloves First of all, the fingers
should be we'll opened Every woman
should own q glove Stretcner-Sne can Duy
one for % or 80 cents. The idea is not so
much to stretch the fingers as TO get them
opened up Glove powder helps to make the
gloves slip on more readily: cents worth
will last a long time. Some women powder
the inside of the glove; others prefer to
dust the hand, as in this way the powder
does not get under the nails. When the
glove is we'll opened UP the top should be
turned back the four fingers inserted and
that part of the hand gradually, carefully
and smoothly worked down. Let me enter
a word or two of caution here-never pull
the glove on by the top. After the four fin
gers are on, insert the thumb turning over
the top of the glove and working in the
thumb as you did the fingers.
There are several things to think about
during the putting-on process. The seam
which runs along the side of the hand
should be kept carefully in proper position,
and so with the finger seams. If these are
pulled awry the shape of the entire glove
will be spoiled. In putting in the thumb
the seam should start in the center of the
nail, round over the top of the thumb and
run down the center of the inside
1T pays to exercise care in putting on
new pair of gloves for as they are shaped
TO the hand during the first wearing they
will remain. The heat and the perspira
ton set them, so to speak"
You have told how gloves should be put
on: now tell us how to take them off, the
expert of gloves was asked.
THAT part be summed up in few
words. After the glove is unclasped 1T is
drawn down gently from the top toward
the fingers. Then turn the top hack, gradu-
ally loosen each finger in turn, until the
entire glove can be easily slipped off. In
taking it off never turn the glove inside
out, and when removed the glove should be
carefully smoothed out and given just lit
tie stretch lengthwise before being laid in
the drawer. Women who strip off their
gloves inside out, roll them in a ball and
throw them in the bureau drawer need not
wonder and lament why their gloves last
such a little while OF course the best of
gloves will wear out but even the final
/ catastrophe of utter uselesSneSS can be
averted for some time. The glove hospital
is now a feature of the glove department
of the large and progressive shop, and the
! glove doctor performs some wonderful
| cures with machine, needles silks and
feathers in the restoration of injured or
| disabled hand apparel