Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04
THE CARE OF GLOVES
Subject Of Great Interest to
Every Woman.
BUYING AND FITTING
HINTS FOR GIRLS WHO WOULD BE
WELL aRooMED.
Number Of Pairs One Really Needs for
Various occasions-Cleaning
and Mending.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
To be we'll groomed Is the ambition of
every up-to-date girl. After she has paid
tribute to the beauty doctor, the masseur
the hairdresser and The manicurist she
finds that her wardrobe in all its small de-
tail must be brought up to her own stand
ard of personal immaculateness. A mussy
veil looks out of place over her carefully
coiffed head. A soled neck ribbon looks
doubly unattractive against a throat clear
skinned from baths and massage. Enter
therefore, not only the well-groomed girl
but the tidy girl.
One of the trade marks of the tidy girl is
her gloves. She selects them with good
taste, treats them considerably SO that
their lives may be long, and keeps them in
the daintiest of cases. The fact that the
tidy girl may have a limited dress allow
ance does not prevent her having different
gloves for different occasions. In fact it is
cheaper, as she knows full well, to have
number of gloves in use than to allow a
pair of dress gloves gradually to degenerate
into a pair of second best or every day
gloves. Never is the tidy girl seen shopping
in a pair of soiled white kid gloves.
Choosing Gloves.
She never buys bargain sale gloves I'M
less she is sure of the quality of the kid
and can depend upon the bargain offerings
of the store at which she shops She knows
the value of a perfectly fitting glove and a
pliable kid, two characteristics which in
sure long life for her purchases.
Many women make the mistake of thing
ing that a ught-fitting glove causes the
hand to look small. The tight-fitting glove
makes the hand bulge in places so that it
looks i'll proportional, to say nothing of
stopping the circulation of the blood and
making the hands cOld.> On the other hand
the glove that is too large gives slovenly
appearance to the hand; so it behooves the
tidy girl to have her gloves fitted perfectly.
A soft pliable kid makes the hand look
smaller than the thicker feathers hence
many women with large hands give the
preference to the suede glove, though this
year the glace glove is considered smarter.
1t is always safer to have a glove fitted
by the clerk than to buy by number, as
there is slight variation in different
makes, particularly in the fit of the glove
around the wrist, and there is nothing
which mars the good effect of a costume
IKE an unbuttoned glove showing q swollen
purple wrist beneath it,
The girl whose hands perspira To an ex
traordlnary amount should never ATTEMPT
10 wear Kid gloves to dances. She will find
beautiful qualities of silk in elbow and full
length gloves, and these will be much more
effective on her hand than a suede or eIace
winch is suT with perspira ton. They must
be fitted as carefully as a kid glove ami
nothing is less attractive than a silk glove
which is too large.
Number Of Gloves Needed.
Now as to the number of gloves the tidv
girl buys. The fashionable cryaof the l,o,r
is for pale tinted gloves to match the dainty
blue, pink and yellow gowns so much in
vogue. But only girl who can afford to
spend considerable money on her gloves
Will indulge i'll this fad us the pale colors
do not clean as satisfactorily as the all
White glove, and the dye frequently rots the
Kid. The girl who has several light even
ing 1focAs VIII do well to have two pairs
OF Wnite gloves, one full length for wear
with her dancing frocks which have the
snort puHed sleeves, and an elbow glove to
meet her half or three-uuarter sleeves
her fancy.
If she dresses great deal in black wear
ing lace, net or jettcd gowns, she will need
one long pair of black gloves, and the
average woman prefers the suede, as it
arm. ~
To go with he, best taflor-made froclz
Drown. green or red, she has a pair of fine
Dress kld gloves of exactly the same shade
IN tWo-button length, and this wear hut
TONS nave supplanted clasps This glove she
Keeps exclusively for dressy- occa sions and
WOULD not think of wearing it on her shon-
ping or marketing trips, much less when
For such wear she has a mannish-lookina,
glove OF goatslin or mocha. either with tbe
pig single button or the gauntlet effect with
tr. ruober shirring at the inside of the
$50 oia any, oI the new gloves for hard
remely warm and comfortable
Otis VINO are very particular never wear
:. a. SloEe tney PRIZE with muff, but have a
go pes. pair for this use. or they pro-
sect the glove with dainty silk mitten
NJ ciS are as hard on gloves as are sharply |
pointeo nhger nails. Only the girl who ,yaes |
III lor extremes now cuts her finger nails in |
r,,, nitaip polht, the curved effect being in
nuch better taste. '-
Fitting Gloves.
Every woman should have anone. bar
'oile' .aoie fittings a good glove stretcher
anu niue rice powder to use in case the |
sioEe mas not been fitted at the store. The |
grove stretcher should be used carefully. |
- .ii@t the seams are not ripped. The |
stretching and fitting of . glove 10 on |
operation IN which haste does not nav
Alter busting the inside Of the glove |
carefully with rice powder the tidv girl |
'ntf lie tb on me myers, leaving the thumb !
lnli they are all firmly in place. making |
sure that each finger is put on absolutely |
stralght. If glove is once nut ON crooked |
p W I'm ne heyer be Strengthened. Then she
WINS the hand into the glove entirely but |
never pulls the glove by the wrist aiwsvs |
ciasplhg the hand and gently working the I
sl sH INTO it's place. If the glove is a |
, urliie small and works on very hard, it is
wen 70 remove 1t after it is half way on |
ana start afresh. If it fits tightly about |
Ihe wrist, she fastens the last button |
ana an trusts to the gradual stretching of the
he sacred portals of her room and never
view 40 P0'''o
:, me tidy girl removes her gloves with
s ir.li.e care. ohe starts by loosening the
flla inc cl,a
turns the wrist down and draws the glove
wrong ,,r M SIDE out carefully, not jerkily If |
ne. ne niger UPS nave been properly loosened,
me grove VIII not turn all the way wrong
slde out. once off the hand the tidy girl |