Evening star., 1903-08-29
THEY DISCARD GLOVES.
Prefer to Show Rings Than Cover Their
Hands,

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From the London Mail
One fashion frequently influences another.
Jewelry is at this moment exercising in
London an autocratic sway over gloves.
Women wear rings with enormous stones
over which the ordinary well-ftting glove
Is an exceedingly irksome article of attire.
-Four courses are open to her. Either she
must submit to gloves a size or two larger
than those to which she Is accustomed, or
she must discard gloves altogether, or she
must wear her 5ewelry outside her gloves
as the dandies of the Stuart period did. or
she must shalsh her gloves to reveal the
gistening gems beneath-after the manner
Of the gallants of a still earlier age as
proved by ancient pictures.
There are objections to all these methods
but the least annoying is to leave Off the
gloves This is what many women are now
doing. Stealthily but surely they are feel
ing their way toward the attitude men have
so long assumed-that gloves are only
worth regarding from a utilitaEian stand
point, as coverings to confer warmth upon
one sole occasion upon which a man puts
on gloves in Difference to the demands of
etiquette. and that Is when he dances
Neither have women yet dared to leave
them off for these affairs, nor for state an
pearances, at the opera and at parties in
great houses.
Observant of the trend of fashion and OF
the independent attitude of their good cus-
toners, the glovers have added mittens to
their stock But In this country among the
well-dressed set mittens have proved a con-
spicuous failure both for day and evening
wear.
AS aspirants for patronage out of doors.
women have a bitter quarrel agains- nit
tens for they have found that the mis-
chievous summer sun imprints faithful
portrait of the pattern of the lace on their
skins, copying his joke of last year when
pneumonia biouSes' were worn and the
shoulders of those who favored them were
tattooed with the lines and arabesques Of
| their design. The ineleg ant canvas gloves
| the restraint of kid play the same trick and
| enlarge the apparent size of the hand as
| well. traits that do not recommend them to
women.
White kid gloves are in most demand now
| for evening and daytime affairs The no
glove pioneers carry theirs like men in the
| day and wear them at night to so back
| ward and forward between the restaurants
| and the theaters. removing them for dinner
| and for the play. The glovers have no need
| to resort to the old subterfuge of marking
| their wares one size smaller than reality,
| because modern women are being taught
| that tight gloves induce scarlet noses, and
! that by weakening the muscles and i'm
| poverishing the skin of the hands faded
and wrinkled hands are induced long be-
| fore age should touch and mar.
| Manicurists prospecting. as the result
| of the no-glove movement. Their clients
| are legion The present aim of the mani
curist is to perpetuate in the hands the
| loveliness of infancy up to extreme old age.
| Nail and fingeritip coloring is out of
vogue, and talons. once so modish are now
| taboo. Though they view with favor the
| craze for large finger rings and the conse-
! quent abandonment of gloves. they recon-
mend night gloves of their own preparing,
| which are smeared inside with a paste
| balm to give whiteness and softness to the
hands.