THE COMING GLOVE.

Patea Mail, 20 April 1882, Page 2

THE COMING GLOVE.

The Paris fashions for gloves have for the first time for many years undergone a decided change. Heretofore the variations from one season to the next have been slight and hardly perceptible, as when the two-button gloves that had been worn for years were replaced by three-button, and these later on divided their popularity with four and six-button. Tine, there are still a good many of three, four, and six-button gloves worn for ordinary occasions, such as shopping, &c., but for all dressy purposes—promenades, receptions, parties, or balls—the older styles have to give way to the newer fashions. The leading styles are the i( Gant de Saxe,” a long glove, measuring from eight to fifteen inches above the wrist, without any opening or fastening whatever. The “ Gant Mousqnetaire,” a glove ot the same length, having an opening at the wrist fastened with two or three buttons, and the “ Gant de Beige,” which is the same style as the “ Mousquetaire,” cut yery broad and without elasticity, so that.it can be slipped on or off very easily. This style is mostly confined to use in riding or driving,- and therefore conies only in yellow, ecru, and tan shades. The fashionable color in- these longer gloves are all shades of yellow, and' tan, down to the bright oak colors. Black also promises to be decidedly fashionable. For parties and balls, while and the pale-tinted opera shades in “ Monsquetaires” will be first choice. Those long gloves offer several advantages over the older styles; they avoid the trouble of closing so many buttons, and as they can only-be made of the finer qualities of kid skins, the goods cannot be imitated in cheap grades of gloves, hence cannot become common.