Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-02
Changes of Styles
in Gloves for Men

| tinue ii there Is any feeling of self-resp ect
ON the part of the buyer?"
| w hat are buyers:" demanded the
/ naberdasher. 'They are class of men
who hurry into store plant their money
| on the counter, take what they get and
| disappear. There is no effort to barter
| and trade in their purchases. They are
not even good people TO swindle. The
| tradcSmen never come to know their
1 likes or disiikes, and they, in their turn,
disregard their advice"
| X
!. Speaking of gloves was suggested.
Speaking Of gloves reiterated the
haberdasher, I'VE will never have good
| gloves until We have the men who will
| cease buying any glove in the world.
, Five dollars is not too much to spend for
a pair of gloves that fit one as gloves
are supposed to fit, and 81 is entirely too
much to spend for pair OF gloves that
look like the claws of palsied walrus.''
! Five dollars seems a large sum-"
! Five dollars Is a large sum-" replied
| the haberdasher. land it is large because
men have never attempted to StandardiZe
/ their clothes. If one cannot wear glo. es
| that are worth wearing one m ght far
| better resort to the trick Of the Indian,
j who used to fold his hands under his
arms and keep them warm III that
! ashion.'
/ There is a general feeling on the part
| of dealers that glove wearing has become
| a matter of individual id.osyncracy rather
/ than any well regulated agreement among
men as to what the styles shall be. In
! the face of this pessimistic information
! the Boulevardier was astoniShed to find
/ the most wonderful wares among the
/ glove dealers in Washington; skins that
seemed to have been perfectly tanned
and softened and which can only be
| likened to that most perfect OF all Skins,
the Indian doeShin glove.
i There has been a great diversity this
winter in the theories of glove wearing,
and for this diversity the automobile Is
/ to q great extent accountable In the
=, first place it has brought into Washing
! ton a style of glove which was he eto-
/ fore unknown, u style OF glove SO beyond
the realm of civilized usage that it SEEM
ed to be, at first, utterly impossible.
a..
| Ii might &c argued that the automobile
has also brought into common usage tbs
new "a1:o coat of winter. which makes
the wcarer Look like a bear. That Of
course, Is 4 rank disregard for fashion.
| There is no analogy between the innora-
ton Of the automobile coat and the de
| struction CT set ideals regarding men :
| gloves. The automobile has nothing 10
Go with it. The fact is that the average
man, when he hGvs his gloves, has a GER
/ .ain cling.ng weakness that If he can
! make them match his suit he will he get
, ting away with something that his breth-
rem cannot initiate 1t is this ostrich.lke
desire 10 achieve perfect harmony III
! coIors that has caused dealers TO sell all
manner OF shades Ill gloves.
] And yet there is to be no lack Of new
styles for the discriminating patron this
year. For instance. there is the evening
glove which has been named the ASeot
which one may buy for $50 with Si.oo
as the outside price, and which one may
wear with the bland confidence that for
! outdoor athletic enterprises it cannot bt
I surpassed.
There is the glove which has been
brought from Champs FL: sees, which can
not be surpassed as a pure form gar
inent." II is glove that fits rather
tightly at first, but which is so well mad.
that even after ii has stretched there
is not seam to tell the story of its
stretching.
There is & glove which has been de-
lveloped recently by American manufac-
turerers which has completely lost the
old abhorred line OF the conventional
glove and which gives an appearance oil
symmetry which is almost past belief.
These gloves are being sold in Wash
ington this fall at rates that are not
eAorbitant. They are colored black
fawn, gray and tan-yes, and even blue
and all of them are worthy of the
discrimination OF the discriminating
buyer.
To the writer's mind, the buyer OF
gloves should consider not the color OF
his suit, but rather the size and shape
or his hands. There are big men. fash
ionable men, who have appeared at even
ing receptions looking like they were
about to be hanged, and the cause of al
the trouble lay in pair of brilliantly
white gloves hanging Imply at the end
or their arms.
There Is much that might be said con-
corning the way that men carry their
hands when they have once incased them