When wearing gloves, put them on as gently as possible. Don't hold the cuff tightly with your fingers, but put your hand gently into the glove. Remember to take good care of gloves when you don't need them, and never put them in your own big bag.
When taking off gloves, you should unbutton your wrist first, and then gently take it out from the open handle. You can roll the gloves neatly to the wrist.
Let's take a look at some important precautions for wearing gloves in the twentieth century:
1) Wear gloves in places of worship to show respect.
2) Wear gloves on formal occasions indoors.
3) Wear gloves when dancing at formal parties.
4) Wear gloves at cocktail parties. You can't take off your gloves to get food unless the waiter walks by with drinks or appetizers.
5) Before eating, if you wear short gloves or gloves with a length of 3/4, you need to take them off completely; If you wear long gloves, you should loosen the button and fold the gloves.
6) When you arrive at an informal party or luncheon, take off your gloves so that you can put them with your coat.
7) Don't wear gloves when eating, drinking, smoking, playing cards and making up.
8) Don't wear jewelry other than gloves, except bracelets.
9) Gloves should be part of your overall clothing, not always in your hand.
10) Don't take off your gloves when shaking hands.
How to choose gloves
When choosing the most suitable glove style when attending various occasions, we need to pay attention to the following three elements: model, color and glove length. Of course, the etiquette of wearing gloves should be maintained at all times.
The first is how to choose the right glove model. To determine the glove model, first measure the widest part of the joint between the other four fingers of the thumb and the palm with a tape measure.
In terms of color, black gloves are naturally the most versatile, but it is recommended to wear white or beige gloves on formal occasions. Gloves of various colors are becoming more and more popular now, especially when attending weddings. Wearing the right gloves and hat will greatly add points to your image. If the gloves are the same color as the sleeves of clothes, the arms will appear longer, on the contrary, different colors will make the arms shorter.
The length of gloves is determined by the current trend and the length of clothes sleeves. You usually only need to wear short gloves in the street, during the day and when attending informal night activities; Long gloves are needed for formal occasions.
How to wear gloves correctly
On different occasions, the way to wear gloves will be different.
On a formal occasion, such as an opera or a dance:
If you are wearing an evening dress, a pair of long black opera gloves is the most elegant choice. The ideal glove length depends on the length of your dress sleeves: short sleeves wear long gloves, so opera gloves are usually paired with sleeveless or short-sleeved evening dresses. As for wrist-length gloves, they are more suitable for wearing short dresses or attending summer dances or weddings, and they are also a fashionable way to match at dinner parties.
It should be noted that black opera gloves should not be matched with light-colored clothes, but only with black or dark-colored clothes.
Weddings and church occasions:
Brides usually wear strapless dresses and cover their shoulders with lace shawls, unless they attend an informal summer wedding or dance after the wedding. The bride should not wear gloves when wearing a ring at the wedding. Traditional wedding gloves should be white. At the wedding, the bride's waiter and the guests present can choose white gloves or other gloves that are long or short according to their own clothing needs. Brides, members of the welcome team and guests should always wear gloves until the welcome is over.
Tourism, leisure or sports occasions:
Skiing, skating and driving all need to wear high-quality outdoor gloves. In the cold season, fur-lined leather gloves or lightweight lined wool gloves are the most popular. When driving, the knitted gloves of leather palm can ensure that both hands hold the steering wheel without slipping, which is both practical and fashionable.
Other functional gloves matched with urban sports include riding gloves matched with riding clothes and equestrian performance clothes, which are usually made of brown leather.
Golf gloves. Gloves have no fingertip parts, which can expose fingers.
Hunting gloves, usually knitted from wool or cotton.