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    Gloves: History and Present
    Gloves: History and Present
    Gloves: History and Present
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    Gloves: History and Present

    By Ida Tomshinsky

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    No outfit is complete without accessories. Trinity of hats, scarves and gloves is a common ensemble that is used as modern fashion accessory by both men and women.
    It was a necessity to protect hands from gusty winds and keep them warm during cold-weather winters. The historic evolution and democratization development of gloves had an exotic trip with detours aplenty throughout the centuries. Gloves in fashion were an exclusive enterprise, a pursuit of the wealthy. Therefore, the use of materials, the length, and fabrication evolved from made at home into real industry. Eventually, an array of hand wear of different styles and colors became available for masses. In the intervening time, Europe countries were the ones that planted the seeds that would define fashion culture, chic and elegance for decades to come.
    Today, whatever its seasonal vagaries, gloves and mittens as fashion accessories have been a reflection of society as an industry, often stirring provocative debate. Is it art or craft? Who would wear elbow-long opera gloves? Is couture dead? Is department store obsolete? The answers are in the gloves themselves, in their history and present.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 13, 2011
    ISBN9781477160527
    Gloves: History and Present
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    Ida Tomshinsky

    Mrs. Ida Tomshinsky, is a long-time Librarian, with a capital “L.” She is kind to share with readers her personal professional story and how she says in the book, “It was an honor and privilege to serve the local communities.” Many people think that the Librarian occupation is in the past, and the Internet and Google can give anyone abundance of information on the fast request. Today, in the modern digital world, we need the librarians’ input more than ever before to guide throughout the getaway of books, digital resources, and “fake” news and facts.

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      Gloves - Ida Tomshinsky

      Copyright © 2011 by Ida Tomshinsky. 106617-TOMS

      ISBN:        Softcover               978-1-4653-8809-4

      ISBN:        eBook                     978-1-4771-6052-7

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be

      reproduced or transmitted in any form or by

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      storage and retrieval system, without permission

      in writing from the copyright owner.

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      Gloves:

      History and Present

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      1    Gloves: History and Present

      2    Measurements and Sizes, Patterns and Production,

      and The Etiquette of Opera Gloves

      3    Gloves in Literature

      4    Gloves in Fine Arts: Museum Collections and Displays

      5    Bibliography

      6    Webliography

      Gloves: History and Present

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      Any hand wear, gloves or mittens, protect human hands. Gloves have an old history, and glove wearing and making them intertwined with people’s culture since prehistoric times. The cavemen were worn gloves to protect the hands from cold winter weather, cuts and damages in hunt and work. Currently, very few remain to cover the hands in gloves with chic and style. Fewer patterns are available for hand-made gloves. Machine sewn and hand finished gloves are mostly what you’ll find in the retail market.

      Beside fashion accessorizing, these days, we having gloves widely used in sports - the American football various position gloves, baseball glove or catcher’s mitt, billiards glove, boxing gloves, cricket gloves, cycling gloves, goalkeeper’s glove in football, fencing glove, golf glove, ice hockey mitt; driving gloves to improve the grip on the steering wheel, riding gloves; followed by the gardening gloves; latex gloves that are using professionally in surgery and forensics, and even eating gloves (glove use while eating - Patent 6782555.)

      Fingerless gloves are protecting the palm area, and exposed fingers have a better grip and often are used by bikers, skateboarders and rollerblades. Fingerless gloves are usually made from leather. They are quite common in heavy metal and punk fashion.

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      What the new trend that followers love about these fingerless gloves, is the drama. They are long on form and a bit short on function - but keeping hands warm is not really the point of these gloves. We love pairing these edgy gloves with feminine pieces - a lacy blouse or a lady like dress that takes on a whole new sartorial meaning with the addition of these gloves. If you prefer not to mix your fashion references, you can go all out and pair them with a moto jacket and denim.

      Fingerless gloves are useful where dexterity is required that gloves would restrict. Cigarette smokers and church organists both are using fingerless gloves. Some gloves include a gauntlet that extends partway up the arm. Sailors and fishermen wear fingerless mittens, so they can keep their hands warm while remaining dexterous and able to grip lines.

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      The punk movement in the late 70s sparked the trend of fingerless studded gloves worn by both men and women as strictly as a fashion item, regardless of the season.

      Rainbow style gloves were also popular, commenting on the trends of the time.

      A woolen pair can be fashionable and cute with a 'no' to the utilitarian, and salty. The woolen variety of fingerless gloves became popular in early 1980s, largely due to the example of English pop star, Nik Kershaw. Those leather monstrosities above remind us of the worst of Madonna’s 80's fashion.

      Fingerless gloves also known as hobo gloves, due to their association with homeless people.

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      Gladys Geissman (Hull, Merry), an American accessory designer who created fashion Turnabouts for readers of This Week Magazine, is known to women everywhere as the designer who created the finger-free glove representing the first new glove construction in more than 300 years. She was also one of the first American designers to create the matching accessory ensemble.

      Fingerless gloves, called mitts in colonial America, have five holes through which the fingers and thumb extend. As well as gloves to keep the hands warm, people could use mittens or muffs.

      Mittens were also worn by working people because they left the fingers free to work.

      Below is a pattern for a Latvian mitten.

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      Requirements: size 4 double-pointed needles,

      Karabella Aurora 8 (94 yards/skein) or other worsted weight yarn: 2 skeins color A, 1 skein color B, 1 skein color C; tapestry needle, waste yarn

      Ladies’ size small

      Gauge: 26 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches

      CO 40 stitches in color A. Knit 1 row, then join yarn in the round. Knit 3 more rounds, then *K2tog, YO, rep. from * for one whole round. Knit 4 more rounds.

      Switch to color B and begin pattern chart. Notice that some rows require you to increase or decrease by a stitch or two in order to fit the whole pattern repeat, and in switching from the wrist patterns to the main hand pattern you will increase by five stitches.

       Note: the red centers of the main pattern’s boxes, as well as the white centers of the cuff pattern’s diamonds, can be done in duplicate stitch if preferred. If you choose to do so, just knit the boxes entirely in white and the diamonds entirely in black.

      Dark outlines on the chart indicate where to place thumb gore for left and right mittens. Inside this outline, increase as charted for length charted. At final row of thumb gore, knit row, then place thumb stitches on a length of waste yarn. In the next round, knit to thumb stitches, cable cast on 3 stitches to make up for 3 original thumbs’ gore stitches, and then continue round.

      Decrease for top of mitten as charted, using right-leaning (k2tog) decreases on right sides of mitten tops, and left-leaning (ssk) decreases on left sides of mitten tops. When four stitches are left on needles, break yarn, draw both colors through loops, pull through to wrong side of piece, and knot.

      Pick up thumb stitches from waste yarn and pick up 11 stitches around hole left by thumb gore, continuing the stripe pattern. Join yarn and knit in the round until thumb reaches about 1/3 of the way up the thumb nail. Begin decreasing by four stitches in each round as charted. When six stitches remain on needles, break yarn, draw through loops, pull through

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