Why Oh Why...

[magicaddict]

...do mens leather gloves only come in boring colours?

Recently, I acquired myself a pair of black leather gloves, G. Delacroix for the portrayal of. They're perfectly good, serviceable gloves, if ever-so-slightly on the large side (I have small hands). When they arrived, and I was trying them on, a though occurred to me - wouldn't it be cool for Rhinyn to have a pair of gloves so his hands don't seize up when night working?

Perfectly reasonable, I thought. Rhinyn's colours are splashes of petrol green and mid brown on a black background, so off I go round the net looking for a pair of mens petrol green or mid brown leather gloves, in a reasonably small size.

Clearly, men no longer wear gloves for style or to match their outfits.

I can find dark brown, light brown, beige, black, and various other colours, camouflage and ski-gloves in green(ish), but nothing that looks like something you would wear to ninj round a forest if your working colours are petrol green and mid brown (considering how petrol green typically isn't a foresty colour, I melt into green backgrounds, especially at night, really quite well). Brown would be the logical choice as down my arms I have green-brown-green, but a pair of green gloves has taken my fancy for some reason. Of course, I could wear black, to match the shirt, but it's a chance for another bit of camouflage that I shouldn't have to pass up due to a lack of supply.

The only remaining option is womens gloves - more colours but very small so I need to find them in "extra large". Cue going into ladieswear departments in town (with Emma in tow to make sure I don't get thrown out for being a voyeur) and trying to find a pair that fit me. Ebay have a couple that I am verifying the size of and might be alright, but I would much prefer it if somewhere, some mens accessories supplier made petrol green leather gloves. It's not too much to ask, is it?

That rant over, now I have to go and try to put together one of my trademarkedly dynamic and striking slide shows, in a way that Kieran (king of all things drab and mundane and, above all, beige) actually likes, before Monday. Phaer my l337 PowerPoint skillz...

Comments

[mindswerve.livejournal.com]

doug have a look for a pair of british army soldier 95 gloves.....they come in 3 sizes and 2 colours (black or khaki green)

mike

[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about those - the only problem was they did appear qite chunky. I didn't know they came in green however (despite how intuitive it may have been for them to be so), so I'll give them a look.