Sunday, November 5, 2017

Gilded Age Dinner Glove Etiquette

“Just think... I will be a trendsetter a hundred years from now!” – Long before pop singer Madonna made fingerless gloves fashionable in the 1980’s, they were a staple of the British Regency Era women’s wardrobe. They briefly became a dinner party fad of the Gilded Age.


A New “Dinner Sleeve?”

 

“The most curious sleeve ever designed for fashionable women is the new dinner sleeve, which forms an old fashioned mitt when it reaches the hand, serving as a sleeve and glove in one. It just covers the knuckles, allowing the rings to show to great advantage.” — The Pittsburg Dispatch, 1899

Etiquette Enthusiast Maura J. Graber is the Site Editor for the Etiquipedia© Etiquette Encyclopedia 

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