Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1914 — Long Kid Gloves Ancient. [ARTICLE]

Long Kid Gloves Ancient.

The wearing of long kid glovee Is by no means a modern fashion. Aa long ago as 1675 they were worn, for there is a description of a pair of white kid wedding gloves twenty-two Inches long that were worn drawn Mi above the dibow. and a famous French authority on historical costumes states that In the time of the empire long gloves were not only fashionable but were ruinously expensive. No woman who' made any .aspirations to being well dressed could possibly got on with less than a new pair every day.