is it better for gloves to fit a lil loose or a little tight/and advice on checking quality
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Thank you!
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I meant to say advice on checking the quality of leather gloves
I can’t stand wearing gloves that are loose, having them slip around my fingertips is really annoying. If they’re leather and a little tight you can expect them to break and mold to your hands somewhat (although you obviously wouldn’t want them super tight to the point of being uncomfortable)
For unlined, I like fairly tight. For lined, there's more room for the lining to compress so you have more room to play.
As for quality... honestly with the way the market is, I research online what more experienced people say. Certain types if stitching will be sturdier, but I have no idea how to identify stitching thread quality, for example.
I guess the real question is: are these gloves solving a specific problem or just looking good? Problem solving gloves can be mechanic's gloves, deerskin work gloves, goretex ski gloves, etc etc. Just for looking good - I assume leather? If so, you basically check the standard leather things, like, is it actually leather if that's what you want, does it seem like corrected grain, etc.
Or skip all that and buy proper ski gloves and then kent wang for nice gloves. :P
Yeeep, also to note that if you’re using gloves for work or shooting or something, super high quality isn’t that important cos your gloves are gonna fall apart pretty often anyways
these gloves are meant to look good and keep my hands warm! they're cashmered lined
thank you for the help!
is the fact that it says "genuine leather" on the label negative or positive?
oh wait it looks like that doesn't mean anything
Here's a pic of the actual leather (not sure if you can tell anything from that)
Yeah there are infographics out there that will tell you that "genuine leather" means it's terrible, but truthfully, there are high end makers who use that term. All it means is that it uses genuine leather. Anything from glued together milled scraps of leather, to full grain lambskin.
Obviously "full grain lambskin" probably means it's pretty excellent but even then, you never know.
Photo looks like leather to me, but then, these days people do a great job of making shit leather look decent, so /shrug
Hmm it was made in Italy but bloomingdales gives no info about where the leather was sourced (it's from their store brand)
yeah plus "made in" is a complicated term as well.
With that said, virtually no brand will give you a trace of the entire supply chain. For cashmere lined leather gloves, if you truly fully wanted to know that everything was done "well" and "fairly" and "cleanly" you would ideally like to know:
- Where did the goats live, how were they treated
- Where was the shed hair sent to for processing, and through what method
- How was it processed
- Where was it sent to for weaving/milling, and through what method
- Where did the lambs/calves live, and how were they treated, and how was the herd treated
- Did we make sure to use the whole animal properly?
- Where was it slaughtered, and was it slaughtered painlessly and humanely?
- Where was it processed, and how did it get there?
- Where as the leather tanned, through which methods and which chemicals?
- Where was the leather cut, dyed, stitched, etc and where was the cashmere attached, and through which methods?
- Where and how was the end product sold, how was it shipped, etc?
Plus at each step, did the people get paid and treated reasonably?
If you can legitimately answer all of those questions, the company is either fully vertically integrated, or extremely good at auditing its supply chain. If you can get an answer for all of that that satisfies you and makes you feel good about yourself, you're looking at the likes of Loro Piana and Brunello Cucinelli and you're paying $675 for them. Anywhere you're paying $100, or less, you get what you get...
Realistically it was made in a glove making factory in italy, where they make gloves for 15 different brands in slightly or somewhat different styles, and all those facts change month to month. A significant amount of the work may have been done elsewhere before the final stages - Poland, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain ... Pakistan, India, China ... or maybe it wasn't.
thank you so much for the very detailed help!
hah i got them on a deep discount for $50
i think i'll keep them, they keep my hands nice and warm
I think better to err on the side of a little tight
To get you out of a murder charge
(Also for the reasons others mentioned)