In need of kid gloves, anyone?

[telophase]

I've got three pair of kid gloves that I picked up at an estate sale a few years back that aren't doing anything but sitting around gathering dust, so I thought I'd see if anyone here wanted to buy them. :)

The kicker is - they're for people with hands slenderer than I. And the Collecting Opera Gloves site says that vintage gloves - I have no idea how old these are, but probably date from the 1950s or 60s - tend to run a size smaller than modern gloves.

I can provide pictures if you want to see them before deciding. Photos added :) All in good condition: no rips, stains, or tears.

Best offer. :)

Evening ivory kid gloves, reach over the elbow and are 16" from the base of the thumb to the end (which makes it, technically, the shortest opera glove, I think). 3 buttons at wrist, size 6 1/2. Stamp inside: "6 1/2 REAL KID LAVABILE MADOVA GLOVES FLORENCE ITALY" The company seems to still be in business, so I think they're probably pretty good. :D Photo 1 Photo 2 - Looking closely at the gloves, I noew see that the first two fingers of the left glove have a leeetle bit of dirt on them, but it's not noticeable unless you're looking closely. The shadows in these photos are just that - shadows.

Black gloves, 7" from base of thumb to end, which means they cover most of the forearm. This pair can be dated to the U.S. occupation of Germany, I think - the stamp inside reads "ARIS IMPORTED REAL KID 6 1/2 WASHABLE MADE IN GERMANY U.S.A. ZONE" Ooh, a bit of Googling turns up the infor that Aris became Aris Isotoner (and was acquired by Sara Lee in 1969). Photo 1 Photo 2 - Photo 1 shows a bit more detail; Photo 2 is the true color.

Black short gloves, 1" from base of thumb to hem. Actually hemmed, unlike the other two pair. Stamp inside one of them: "6 1/2 Lionel Le Grand." Stamp inside other: "Neiman-Marcus Made in France." Photo The color's off in that photo - it's pure black, not the weird brown it looks to be here. The medium-sized gloves above are the same color as this.

I think I'm about a size 7-7 1/2, and I can almost get my hand into the short pair. The others - no way.

Comments

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

So how long are the fingers? I have short fingers. The problem I always run into with winter gloves is that the fingers are too long.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

Hee, I have the opposite question - how long are the fingers? And how does one tell what glove size they are?

And what the heck would I *do* with a pair of kid gloves, but that's beside the point.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Cutting-and-pasting: The pair that I can almost get on - the shortest - seems to have fingers that would fit mine if my knuckles and palm weren't so wide. Measuring from the base of the seam of the middle finger of that pair to the tip (along the back of the glove) is 3.5". The middle-length pair is the same, and the evening-length one seems to be 3.25" long.

And I ahve no idea how to tell what glove size you are. :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* Ah. Google to the rescue!

http://www.walkabout.com/shop/size_glove.asp

So these would be size small.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* Except for the evening-length gloves, which are definitely a size extra-small.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

Ahh, thank you! I seem to be a size seven, so there's no way any of those would fit me. I hope you find a home for 'em, though!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Me, too! They're too nice to sit around and gather dust. If I can't find any takers here, I guess it's eBay, although kid gloves don't seem to be moving on eBay at the moment.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh, same here. The ones I wear now are too long in the fingers.

The pair that I can almost get on - the shortest - seems to have fingers that would fit mine if my knuckles and palm weren't so wide. Measuring from the base of the seam of the middle finger of that pair to the tip (along the back of the glove) is 3.5". The middle-length pair is the same, and the evening-length one seems to be 3.25" long.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* My middle finger, measures along the back, seems to be about 3" long. I figure that once the glove finger were plumped out with a finger in it, it'd be closer to 3".

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I might want them if they fit me, but it's hard to tell without actually trying them on.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

What is your glove size, and how long are your fingers? :) I can measure them. The middle fingers, measured along the back from the base of the seam to the tip, are 3.25-3.5" long on the gloves, which means they probably ought to fit 3" fingers, I think.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I will look for the tape measure and get back to you.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I just posted photos of them in the descriptions in the post.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Did you ever find your tape measure? :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* The short pair are a hair over 6" around, so they'd be between x-small and small according to this chart (http://www.walkabout.com/shop/size_glove.asp). Kid leather stretches a little, so I think a size small could wear them.

The opera-length are exactly 6" and the mid-length are 6.5" around at the knuckle, so x-small and small.

[octopedingenue]

Where does one ever find estate sales? I would read about them in '50s kidlit and they always sound so exotic.

(More importantly, where does one find the estate sales of the deeply geeky dead so I can go snag all their comics books?)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Can't help you with #2, but for #1 you read the classified ads on Thursday or Friday, where they're usually advertised near or with the garage sales. :) And you get there when it opens, along with everyone else and their dog, to get the good stuff before someone else gets it. :)

And you bring massive amounts of cash, because they usually don't take any other form of payment.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

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/hijack of geekery

[sparkylibrarian.livejournal.com]

I was sooo excited... I love gloves... but I have huge hands. I wear a size 8.5 ladies and my fingers are, of course, also long. I have one pair of leather gloves that fit, and they are a hideous pale teal color.

Good luck selling them! You may want to try theatre companies in your area.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee, sorry. :D

[only-spiders.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I have tiny hands, and I'm always looking for a nice pair of gloves, and those sound ravishing. They run about a size smaller? So if they're a 6 1/2, then they'd be a 6, or an extra small, right? *not sure if she understands this sizing stuff* If so, they'd so fit me. Unless the fingers were too big.

...Pictures?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

If you look through the toehr comments, I've got a link to a place that shows how to measure for the size. I measured the gloves, and the long ones are extra-small, and the other two are small.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And just added photos to the descriptions in the post. :)

[only-spiders.livejournal.com]

How does 12$ sound?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

One pair or all three? :D

[only-spiders.livejournal.com]

All three. Unless that's ridiculously low or something. ^^;;;

[telophase.livejournal.com]

No, I just wasn't sure. :) So, sure. :) If you do Paypal, I can do Paypal balance transfers at telophase14@gmail.com or credit card/echeck type stuff at sfolse@cepheid.org. :)