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Coffee Break: Leather Gloves

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What are your favorite kind of gloves, ladies? I don't think we've ever truly gotten into it, but I suspect everyone has their favorite types, perhaps “favorites for activities,” and don't stray far from them.

If you're just walking around the city or darting in and out of public transportation, for example, I wore the fingerless gloves/mitten combos for years because they fit nicely in my pocket, I could use my phone without trouble if/when I needed to, and they made me feel happy.

When I run, I've worn a pair of neon/reflective gloves for years, but am now considering this interesting set of “windproof lobster mittens.” I have one friend who has strong opinions on the best gloves for driving — she keeps those stretch-to-fit-with-rubber-nubbies-on-one-side only in her car so her hands are warm, not too stiff, and can grip the steering wheel.

My mother has always been a fan of leather gloves like this, though — super warm and stylish! — and I love the bright pop of pink in these $90 ones from Boden (also available in a navy/mustard combo).

How about you guys? Do you prefer leather, cashmere, wool — lined or unlined — and do you have different favorites for different activities? Do tell. Pictured: Leather Gloves

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  1. Anon

    I have a pair of quilted touchscreen leather gloves that I wear to work/in general. Surprisingly, I found the perfect pair at Target. I also have a pair of water resistant HEAD touchscreen running gloves that I wear for hiking/grocery runs/casual outdoor stuff and a pair of proper insulated ski gloves for winter sports.

    • SSJD

      I prefer mittens! They are so much warmer than gloves. I buy knit mittens in various weights and wear throughout fall and winter. I have also owned fur-lined mittens and they are amazing.

  2. Anonymous

    Has anyone chartered a yacht? Specifically looking at Croatia. Any good companies? Specific recommendations? There’d be 7 of us and we’d need to hire a skipper- reasonable size? Ok to have someone sleep in the salon? How does food work?

    • Anon

      Yes. The Moorings. I’ve done it 8 times, not in that location but it’s in my list. I bareboat sailboats but you can hire a captain and/or chef.

        • Anon

          Also: The Moorings, Sunsail and Footlose are all the same company (think Bannana, Gap and Old Navy in terms of quality). Moorings has the new boats and fancier service. Boats age and get rebranded to Sunsail, and then to Footloose. I’ve done all three. Moorings is amazing. Sunsail is great. I wouldn’t do Footloose again – so many issues with our equipment. If you’re managing cost, I’d strongly recommend Sunsail. If you’re willing to splurge, Moorings, hands down.

    • Anon

      I know this is a perfectly reasonable question for someone of whatever your means are, but it definitely makes me feel like the Have Nots part of the Haves and Have Nots. I will definitely have to stop frequenting this site too often if the comments start going into yacht, butler, and other “Ladies who lunch” or “NY nouveau riche” lifestyle questions as simply not applicable to an average life.

      • Anonymous

        Ok bye then. I’ve priced it out already and it comes to $1000/person for a week. I can get the flights there using miles. I think I’ll spend less than another grand on food/souvenirs/etc. I make 150k a year which I fully recognize is a lot, but I don’t see this as a particularly over the top vacation at all.

        • Boats!

          +1! We did this with friends for 9 days in the British Virgin Islands and boat +food was ~$1.3K per person. One of our friends had his captains license, I got our tickets on points, and that didn’t include booze. Still, one of the cheaper non-camping vacations I’ve had!

      • Anon

        Don’t let the word “yacht” get to you. “Has anyone rented a boat? We want to rent a boat in Croatia. We’d need someone to captain it. What would we do about food?”

        • Anonymous

          Yes sorry, all of the rental sites call them yachts. Not like looking to rent a boat that fits 75 here!

          • Anon

            Sorry, OP, I didn’t mean you should have phrased the question less precisely. My poorly made point was just that, while it’s common to use the word “yacht” as synecdoche for fabulous wealth, sometimes it’s just a word for a kind of boat.

            I think this trip sounds fabulous though!

        • Anonymous

          I think your view on trips like this is also a function of where you grew up. I have never been on a sailboat or yacht or the like and it would probably not occur to me to consider something like this as a trip and I would (until this thread) assume it would be more expensive than a land-based trip. But if you grow up on the coast, I am guessing you have much more exposure to this sort of thing and the actual cost.

          Also, now I want to do this.

      • Anon

        I’m Anon at 2:49pm above who’s done this 8 times. You’d be floored by how affordable this vacation can be relative to 7 nights at a Florida resort. You’d also be floored by how expensive you can make it if you try hard enough. When I go I have built in cost savings by not having to pay for a captain (hi!), but even with that expense if you split 4 or 8 or 12 ways, it’s really not nearly as insane as you’d begin to imagine.

        The first time I did this trip I was one of 10 and I wasn’t the captain, just along for the ride. I saved $40 cash each week for about 9 months leading up to it to pay my way, and as a teacher no less (talk about ‘have nots’…).

      • Anonymous

        If everyone in the group is paying, yachting is actually not that much more expensive than a nice all inclusive resort like Sandals or something. Similarly, I used to think of renting a villa in Italy as a ‘rich people thing’ – but if people are paying $4000/week each at an all inclusive and you get 10 people together, suddenly it’s not crazy that it costs $40K/week.

      • pugsnbourbon

        LOL she’s chartering a yacht, not buying one. People talk about all kinds of travel on here and honestly, a yacht trip in Croatia sounds like a great time and comparable to a safari in South Africa.

        • Anon

          No, it’s way cheaper than safari. Or at least, it’s possible to do it for way less than what a safari would cost.

        • Anonymous

          Exactly, LOL. Renting is not buying!! “Yacht” just means boats over a certain size, generally about ~40 ft. Agree with comments about how splitting costs between vacationers quickly brings the cost of this type of vacation down into reasonably affordable territory, even for us middle class folk ;)

      • anonymous

        Sometimes I start to feel queasy when I read the “how many hundreds of thousands do you have saved/my HHI is $600k + commission” posts but… just gotta grit your teeth and scroll and focus on your own life. Culturally, the word yacht is synonymous with expensive and indulgent and ostentatious, but you’ve got to center yourself and think about what she’s really asking. It’s a great way to do a group vacation. I know someone who did this with friends on a salary of less than 100k circa age 26.

        • Anon

          Agreed and you also have to consider that many people spend significant money on activities that don’t have immediate “rich” connotations, such as attending baseball or hockey games. Those are expensive af, especially when you factor in food and parking, but attending is unlikely to get you called a snob or worse.

      • Anon

        Eh, I’m more likely to be the person cleaning someone’s house than asking about hiring a housecleaner, but I enjoy the comment section for the other perspectives and glimpse into peoples’ lives, even though some of what’s discussed on here is as foreign to me as a trip to Saturn.

      • Anon

        For what it’s worth, “chartering a yacht” sounds super fancy but the actual costs of it can be more like staying in nice hotels or going on one of the nicer commercial cruise lines. It’s not akin to a private jet or even an expedition cruise to Antarctica or anything like that. A friend did this in the Caribbean and it came out to $2k/person for a week excluding airfare. You can definitely do the Caribbean for cheaper, but there it’s not like this is something that’s cost-prohibitive for all but the one percent. Honestly, half the hotels recommended here cost more per night.

      • Anonymous

        No. I’m looking to charter a small sailing boat with one person to staff it. Not remotely this.

      • Anon

        I was thinking of “Succession” and their yacht in Croatia. Yowza!

        (A really great show by the way, watch it!)

  3. Anonymous

    Does anyone in NYC have a primary care doctor that they like? I am willing to travel for the right person so any location fine. Thanks!

    • Regular but Anon

      Dr. Elisa Rose at NYU downtown. Takes a while to get an appointment for a regular visit but very good bedside manner and thorough.

    • AnotherLadyLawyer

      Dr. Rachel Cohen at Mt. Sinai’s Midtown West office (780 8th Avenue, Suite 303) is hands down the best GP I’ve ever had!

  4. Gloves

    When do you all wear leather gloves if it’s not a special event? I have a really nice cobalt blue pair from Rome that I bought over 6 years ago and have NEVER worn because I can’t really find the occasion. I don’t really get dressed up very frequently, and I’m not borderline casual for work.

    • Anonymous

      All the time. They are my standard gloves for everything that doesn’t actively require touching snow.

      • Velma

        +1. I like soft leather lined with cashmere or wool. Great for driving. Great for work. Compact and warm. I wear them with any decent coat for everything except for shoveling snow or skiing.

    • Anonymous

      Target, the movies, to go outside anywhere all winter, driving, my commute

    • pugsnbourbon

      Unless they’re elbow-length, I don’t really think of leather gloves as particularly dressy. Cobalt-blue leather gloves would look amazing with a navy or gray wool coat.

      • Anon

        I wear elbow length gloves under my coat to stay warm. It helps from having that one cold spot.

    • Anonymous

      Just wear them. Life is too short. I have leather gloves that come just above my wrist that I wear all the time. I never thought of them as especially fancy.

    • Anon

      Agree, I’ll wear leather gloves with pretty much any outfit with a temp that calls for it, except maybe a workout or athleisure outfit (and only due to sweating reasons)

    • Cat

      Daily, unless I’m wearing my puffer (they “go” best with wool coats or trench coats IMHO).

    • Anon

      Everywhere. I have another pair of gloves for running and for temps under ~15 degrees (like polar vortex days) and snow, but other than that, I wear my leather gloves.

    • Anonymous

      Every single day the whole winter? So much more practical for driving, or texting etc. I have ski type gloves for truly terrible weather but 99% of the time, if the weather is so bad that I’m contemplating ski gloves, the office is closed.

    • January

      I wear black leather gloves all the time, unless I’m running or shoveling snow (but that’s because I don’t want them to get soaked and they’re uncomfortable if my hands are sweaty).

      My boyfriend affectionately refers to them as my cat-burglar gloves, though. So there’s that.

    • Original Moonstone

      I’m like you. I have special Italian gloves in the closed that I almost never wear. It’s funny, I have a childhood memory of my mom wearing black leather gloves to church or maybe the doctor, and when I was young I always thought I would buy a nice pair like that once I felt grown-up enough. I did the math recently and that memory comes from a time when my mom would have been about 35 — not so old, I think now!

  6. Anonymous

    How would you style a mahogany velvet crew-neck dress for a cocktail party? I have always worn black dresses in the past, so I’m not sure what shoes, tights, bag, or jewelry go with brown.

    • ElizabethCS

      Oh, you have so many options! Here’s a great article on colors to think about: https://www.architecturelab.net/what-colors-go-with-brown/. As to textures, I like to contrast with velvet, ie smooth or silky fabrics. Or contrast with a less dense fabric, such as lace. As to jewelry, I would suggest gold. And, to further add my two cents – don’t wear black with it! You certainly can, but I think it’s so boring and pedestrian. I hope you feel fantastic, however you style it!

    • asdf

      Pretty! I’d wear black accessories (shoes, jewelry) because I think black and brown are beautiful together. Also consider an orange-red or cranberry to pull the red in the dress forward. A lot depends on the exact shade of mahogany…

  7. Anonymous

    Has anyone else read the racial bias lawsuit filed against DPW? Curious for others reads. A lot of the allegations remind me of typical law firm mismanagement

    • Anonymous

      I didn’t find what I skimmed incredibly persuasive or even surprising. So much of BigLaw is bad training/oversight/management/feedback by people who are overly busy and have never been trained as managers, so it might just be SNAFU vs discrimination. Incompetence in management/training/slotting people into teams they might actually succeed in is something I assume with law firms in general. The only thing some lawyers are good at is lawyering.

    • Anonymous

      Who is DPW?
      Also – what Anon at 3:03 about lawyers being worse than bad at managing employees and law firms.

  8. Anonymous

    Does anyone have suggestions for gloves for ladies with short chubby fingers? I find I have trouble finding gloves that are nice looking but that actually fit. All the “small” sizes in leather gloves have fingers which are shorter (good) but slimmer (bad). I end up mostly wearing knit gloves because they’re extra stretchy, but they’re not always the warmest and certainly not the nicest looking option.

    • GCG

      YMMV but I consider my fingers to be short and chubby and really like my cashmere-lined leather gloves from J Crew. I haven’t pulled them out of the back of the closet for the season yet so I can’t remember which size I bought, but I think I used their size guide to determine which ones to buy.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t really know if my fingers are “chubby”, but I don’t think they are slim. I have tiny hands. My parents bring gloves for me and my mother back from England, where the size small is smaller than it is here. So maybe try an English purveyor.

    • NOLA

      Anon, I have the opposite problem and I feel your pain! I have really long tapered fingers and almost never fit into women’s one size gloves.

  9. DC clothing stores needed

    DC-based ‘rettes: I’m new in town and looking for recs for women’s clothing stores with customer service that focuses on helping to style me. In the midwest, I found that Evereve was very focused on helping me put outfits together. Any ideas locally? Any suggestion for a stylist at Nordstrom or elsewhere?

    Also, where do you consign or buy consigned clothing? I discovered and like Secondi in Dupont Circle, but again there isn’t much interest among the saleswomen in helping me style an outfit. I would love to find a place where the people minding the store are excited to interact with me and suggest outfits, pairings, etc.

  10. Anon

    I am looking for some tennis shoes for a trip to NYC in January. I really like the Everlane Trainers in white– is wearing white tennis shoes going to be a weird look in January? Does it even matter? I like these because they are all leather and have some cushion so dealing with snow/ice/wind/isn’t a huge issue.

    • Anonymous

      Wearing white sneakers is a really bad idea if there is snow or slush or rain. Everyone will be in boots because they make sense. If it’s a dry January you’ll be fine but why bank on that? You’d be better off buying comfortable booties.

      • PolyD

        Yeah, in my admittedly limited experience (don’t live in NYC, but do go there a few times a year, including winter), snow clearing is not great in Manhattan, plus the snow + salt tends to turn into big piles of gray slush that are not all that easy to avoid. I don’t think tennis shoes would survive, especially white ones.

    • buffybot

      If you’re used to Urban Winter Weather, perhaps none of this is a big deal to you, but if not: have you ever seen the photos of New Yorkers trying to hop over curbside puddles because of the snow? I think Bill Cunningham did a series a few years ago that was very charming. From mid December to April, NYC streets are GROSS and there are potentially ankle deep slush puddles at every intersection. White sneakers would not be my choice – waterproof boots or booties would be.

    • Anon

      Mmmm. I would say no. Look for booties. Or if you really want sneakers – that you can wear in places other than NY in January – get some fleece-lined Converse high tops and wear with slightly cropped jeans/pants. All set!

    • Anon

      Even if there’s no snow, I’d imagine it would probably be wet and grimey? I wouldn’t wear white sneakers in the winter for that reason.

    • Anonymous

      I almost thought this was a joke. NY’er here. Do not wear tennis shoes in NYC in January. Your feet will be wet and cold and your nice white sneakers will be black in 5 minutes.

  11. Diana Barry

    ISO fancy top to go with a black tulle skirt for my work holiday party. Any suggestions? The skirt is pretty full and midi length (I got it from Garnet Hill in the sale last year) so I was thinking something kind of cropped but not too boxy, maybe in satin? But then I couldn’t figure out where to look for it.

  12. Anonymous

    I have these gloves in a similar colorway from ~3 years ago, and they are fantastic.

  13. SSJD

    Having learned about Mignonne Gavigan from ladies on this b1og, I bid on and won a scarf necklace at a gala silent auction this weekend! Yay! Any tips on how to style? Do you wear with a crewneck top? Is it better with a scoop neck, v neck, etc.? Would love thoughts from those of you who have given it some thought and experimentation already.

  14. Blueberries

    Should I wear a suit if I’m called for jury duty?

    The local court guidance suggests that what I’d call business casual or Sunday best is sufficient for jurors generally. However, I’m a lawyer and would always wear a suit to work if I was going for work (which is extremely infrequent). I’m in Silicon Valley, if that makes a difference.

    • Cat

      Wow at that guidance! In my city, the people showing up for jury duty range from “hahaha you’re lucky I put pants on” to “assuming I won’t get picked, I wore something that is appropriate for going straight to my office.”

      • Anonymous

        We got a lot of shirts with words on them (where that could also be workwear for a lot of our local population though). Wear something you wouldn’t be embarassed to be seen in, if on ATL with “XYZ associate in gym attire in jury pool” or if the judge knows your superiors at work. Your profession and firm will come up if called into the box for questioning.

        IF you show up in a suit caring a laptop tote, everyone will assume you are the legal aid lawyer they have been waiting to meet with in the hallway and ask if you are their lawyer, hoping for a yes.

    • Anonymous

      Gosh no. Wear whatever is comfy for a day of sitting around. You aren’t going there as a lawyer. I wore jeans, a blouse, and a cardigan.

    • The original Scarlett

      If it’s convenient for you there’s nothing wrong with wearing a suit, but I certainly would never opt for it for jury duty. Most people are in athleisure and jeans.

    • Anon

      I would definitely not wear a suit, unless you wear suits to work every day and want to be able to head straight to work if you’re excused. People do not really dress up for jury duty, in my experience. I have seen people in pajamas.

    • AIMS

      I don’t think a suit is necessary but there’s a good chance that you will be done early so if you think you want/need to go back to work, i’d wear something you’d be fine with wearing to the office. I also wouldn’t wear anything you’d be embarrassed to see a colleague in. But it doesn’t sound like that will be your problem. I’m also not suggesting you should go back to work even if you do get done early.

    • Blueberries

      Thanks! I mistyped—I should say that I’d always wear a suit to court if going for work. I rarely wear a suit to the office and rarely go to court. I’m glad I can safely go in business casual and not have to dig out my suit.

    • Senior Attorney

      I’d wear something comfortable, akin to what I’d wear on an airplane for a business trip. There will be a lot of sitting around and yes, a lot of “ha! you’re lucky I put pants on!”

    • Anon

      I would wear nice slacks and a silk blouse or cashmere sweater. (Adapt for Silicon Valley.) It conveys that you take your civic duty seriously while not looking like you’re trying to be a lawyer on the case.

  15. Anon

    For those of you who bake — what makes cookies (or muffins or any baked good) seem greasy? Is it the butter? Oil? Something else? It’s happened 3 times now — I’ve gotten 2 cookies (different types) and a muffin at 2 different stores and it seemed like there was a layer of shiny greasy on the wax paper/package, and even on my hands as I touched them. As I’ve gotten older seems my body doesn’t like baked goods as much — is it the grease?

    • waffles

      Not sure, could it be related to the temperature at which the cookies are baked?
      Overall oil/butter content would contribute too.

      • AnonInfinity

        Yes! Sometimes even what temp the kitchen is when the batter is made. I’ve made cookies before that ended up feeling greasy because the kitchen was way too hot while I was making the batter. So, it can be a lot of factors, but my money would be on some convergence of fats and temperature factors.

    • Anon

      It’s the shortening. Palm or soybean shortening is the most common, IIRC. You’re unlikely to encounter actual butter in store bought cookies.

    • Flats Only

      It’s the butter. If you don’t use butter at home, and then encounter it in a commercial baked good, it will indeed seem greasy, and yes, may disagree with your system.

    • Anonymous

      Any kind of fat can make something feel greasy; if they use a lot, then they are more likely to leave grease stains. Oil, butter, schmaltz, etc, it doesn’t matter. As Homer Simpson would say, that shiny spot on the bag is the window to weight gain.

    • Anon

      Definitely shortening. If real butter is used, the baked goods shouldn’t seem greasy.

    • MagicUnicorn

      Store bought cookies with too much grease are likely due to lots of oil of some sort in the recipe.

      Homemade cookies that come out greasy are a different beast. I exclusively bake with butter (unless I’m doing something vegan or there like, in which case I use pumpkin purée or applesauce), and find things get greasy when I either use too much butter for the amount of flour, the wrong cooking temp (i.e., the butter melts and runs out before the cookies cook enough to hold it in), softened butter instead of cold butter, or don’t refrigerate the dough before baking.

  16. Anon

    Talk to me about housecleaning help. We’re in a massively busy season and I’m about ready to cave in and hire some house cleaning help once or twice a month. I’m rarely at home right now, and my husband is, but I’m the neat freak and he doesn’t share my issues (thankfully – I’m not sure it would be healthy for me to be married to another neat freak). But we have a cat and a big scary looking (but actually very skittish and not scary at all) dog and we aren’t home during the day. How do people with pets manage cleaners coming and going? I guess we could just make arrangements to be there the first few times and make sure that they make friends with the dog before we give them a key? Do you ever even give them a key? We’re in about a 1200 square foot home in southeastern VA (not a major city but not far from several). I can get pricing quotes easily enough, but if anyone has any insight on that I welcome it. Apparently I don’t know how any of this works – please enlighten me! Thanks!

    • Anonymous

      I gave mine a key. If the dog is an issue is there a mudroom he can spend the day in, or doggie day care?

    • Anon

      We send the dog to day care on house cleaning days. We have a punchcode key pad and give our house cleaner a unique code, otherwise I’d just give her a key.

    • Anon

      Our housecleaner has our key. We have a hyper little dog. We have the cleaner come in the late afternoon and we arrange our schedule, 2x month, to come home early to get the dog out of her way.

    • GCG

      We take our dog to dog daycare every week (she loves it and is a happier dog) and so coordinate our daycare day to be the same day that cleaners are coming. There are a number of services that are dog friendly though. Ours is and we could leave the dog at home but this works better for us.

      We use a lockbox for transferring the key and only put it outside on the day the cleaners come.

    • Anon

      We never had issues with cleaners and our cat. We were very concerned once we got our dog. I normally scheduled the cleaner to come on days when my husband was working from home. He normally would go in a room with the dog and kind of move around the house as they cleaned. That did not go well, and I think that cleaner actually got sick of this arrangement and ghosted me. New cleaner loves dogs– we now have her come when my husband isn’t there. They now normally put the dog outside or in her crate, and it’s fine.

    • Mrs. Jones

      We leave a key out for cleaners, who just work around our dogs, which bark but don’t bite.

    • Julia

      We either crate our dog or send her to doggy daycare on the days the cleaner comes.

    • Telco Lady JD

      We have two dogs. The younger insane one is in a crate when we’re gone during the day. He’s friendly, but destructive. The older well-behaved one is very familiar with (and fond of) our cleaning ladies. (And the feeling is mutual!) After an initial lovefest, she goes back to her 8-hour nap and they get to work. She has a key.

      • Telco Lady JD

        Ummm….our cleaning person has a key. Not our older, well-behaved, female dog. Though that would be funny.

  17. Anonome

    My favorite gloves for warmth and comfort are the knit Isotoners with suede finger pads and moleskin fleece lining. I have “dressy” leather gloves, but I rarely wear them because they were my grandmother’s and I’d hate to ruin or lose them.

  18. Anonymous

    Friday is 90s day at my daughter’s elementary school. What can I send her in that’s on theme and also first-grade appropriate?

    I wore Steve Maddens, doc martens and JNCOs, none of which she could rock. Maybe an NFL team jacket if I can find one?

    • Anon

      Weren’t the 90s plaid/flannel shirts and oversized everything – from jeans to coats? That’s what I seem to remember of high school.

      • Anonymous

        Yes on the oversized/baggy. Husband still has a jacket from high school and said the other day “why does this still fit me when I’ve gained 40 pounds?” Because everything was super baggy in the 90s.

    • Anonymous

      scrunchies and side pony tail? neon nail polish? – should be able to get those at walgreens

    • Anon

      Jean skirt or jeans and Esprit/Benneton sweatshirt w/ Sam & Libby Flats were all the rage in my corner of the world then.

      • Anon

        Oh yes, so much this. I loved my Benetton shirts, especially with a jean skirt.

      • January

        YES! You could also do floral leggings in place of jeans if you can find them.

    • Cat

      Hair up in a claw clip? Ribbed turtleneck? Stop by a Bath & Body Works for a free sample spritz of Sun Ripened Raspberry Body Spray?

    • anon

      I was in 1st grade in the 90s. I basically remember wearing shorts and random (DARE and the like), not form fitting t-shirts with shorts or jeans. I also remember wearing overalls. Oh, and keds, but mine were probably fake.

    • Anon

      Anything Limited Too-ish? Velour, airbrush shirts, short overalls, hair in little buns, scrunchies, oversize shirt + leggings + Keds. Or google Boy Meets World and Growing Pains for some school appropriate outfits.

    • Horse Crazy

      I just read “Friday will be in the 90s at my daughter’s school,” as in temperature, and I was pretty confused by the replies lol

    • Anon

      My daughter just did this.

      Black ribbon necklace

      Hair in two partial pigtails on either side of her head, the back of her hair worn down

      Black or white tee shirt underneath a slip style dress

      A flannel shirt worn as a jacket over the dress

      Ripped tights

      Doc martens if she has them – my daughter wore her blundstones and it worked

      Rings on every finger

    • Poppies

      Docs are totally in for 1s graders if you’re willing to pay for them, lol. At least they are at my daughter’s school. But the rainbow sparkle ones…

  19. Anonymous

    I got a wonderful cashmere lined leather pair over 10 years ago that I wore for everything! But… I have never figured out how to clean them. At this point they are stained (they’re red) and I’m sure the lining is filthy. Ideas on how to clean?

    • MagicUnicorn

      For the lining, if it isn’t attached at the fingertips so you can pull it inside-out from the leather part, rinse in cool water and squeeze out to dry. Treat the leather like you would leather shoes or a purse.

    • Velma

      Not worth cleaning unless they are truly exceptional. Mine get hard use, and I replace them maybe every 3-5 years.

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