In many formal occasions and high-end places, the ladies wear gloves are a very common form of clothing. In the Western Social Culture, the initial people wear gloves mainly for cold and warm and protect their arms.
Nowadays, gloves have more use, such as highlight identity, reflecting etiquette, enhanced attraction, fashion costumes, etc. Therefore, there are a lot of payments, etiquette, match, and choose, no choice!
Many high-end people in Western countries will wear gloves when they go to the church, lunch, dinner, dance, weddings, official jams, theaters, and even public transportation such as trains, aircraft. Different styles of gloves are distinguished by the length.
Semi-formal and formal women’s gloves usually have three lengths: Wrist, to elbows (ELBOW) and complete length (Opera / White Tie or Full-Length, usually worn at the Opera Performance and White Tie Banquet).
Gloves are generally made of leather and knitted, including small sheepskin, goatskin, leather, satin and velvet, etc.
Basic etiquette wearing gloves
Etiquette often reflects a era. We look back that history can understand how people ‘s behavior can reflect the social structure of an era, and how tradition has strongly influenced the etiquette of wearing gloves.
20th century, handwear etiquette
During this period, the long glove of the button should be worn on the dinner, but the button should be wearing the inside of the hand. At the same time, I also need to wear short-sleeved clothes to wear long gloves when attending the court in 1939.
In addition, until the early 1970s, women were required to wear hats and gloves. Today, the Queen, Elizabeth, the UK still continues this etiquette, and wearing a hat and gloves in public situations.
When wearing gloves, you should be gentle as possible, your fingers don’t grasp the cuffs and gently send your hands into your gloves. When you don’t need to wear your gloves, you should remember to keep your gloves, absolutely can’t just put them into your big bag.
When you take off your gloves, you must first explain the button at your wrist, and then gently fade from the opening handle. You can neatly roll into the wrist position in part.
How to choose gloves
Choosing the most suitable gloves at present when attending various occasions, you need to pay attention to the following three elements: model, color, and gloves. Of course, keep the etiquette wearing gloves at all times.
The first is how to select the appropriate glove model. If you want to make sure your glove model, you should first use the tape measure to measure the other four fingers of your thumb and the joint of the palm connection.
In terms of color, the black gloves are naturally larger, but the official occasion is more recommended to wear white or beige gloves. Today, a variety of color gloves are getting more and more popular, especially when they participate in the wedding, wearing the right gloves and a woman’s hat will have greatly points for your image.
If the color of the glove is the same as the color of your clothing sleeve, you will make your arm look more complete, relatively, different colors will make your arm look shorter.
The length of the glove is determined by the current trend and the length of the clothes sleeve. When you go to the street, during the day and attendance informal night activities, you usually need to wear a short glove; and official occasion needs to wear long gloves.
How to wear gloves correctly
In different occasions, wearing gloves will vary.
Official occasions (such as watching the opera or participating in the dance):
If you are in a night dress, a pair of black long opera gloves is the most elegant choice. The ideal glove length depends on the length of your dress sleeves: short-sleeved, wearing long gloves, so opera gloves usually match sleeve or short-sleeved evening gowns. As for short gloves to the wrist, it is more suitable for wearing short guns or attending summer dances or weddings, and is also a fashion matching method when attending the dinner.
It should be noted that black opera gloves do not match light-colored costumes, but can only match black or dark clothes.
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1, wedding and church occasions
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The bride usually wears a strap dress with lace shawl to cover your shoulders unless you participate in informal summer wedding or dancing after the wedding.
The bride can wear gloves when wearing a ring in the wedding ceremony. Traditional wedding gloves color should be white. At the wedding, the bride’s waiter and the guest can choose white or other colored long or short gloves according to the needs of their own clothing. The bride, welcoming team members and guests should always wear gloves until the end of welcome.
2, travel, leisure or sports
Skiing, skating, driving, you need to wear high quality outdoor gloves. In the cold season, the fur lining in the fur lined gloves or the lightweight wool gloves are most popular. When driving, the palm part is the leather knitting gloves to ensure that both hands holding the steering wheel will slip, both practical and fashionable.
Other functional gloves matching with urban sports include riding gloves with riding and equestrian performance costumes, usually made of brown leather.
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