Each season is highlighted by certain fashion colours, and gloves pick up and echo the trend. These colours are designed to match or tone with the new shades in shoes and handbags.
Colour
Gloves are extremely important in achieving the correct colour balance in one's outfit. Colours vary with the season and with the fashion mood of the moment and even basic shades, like Brown and Beige, take on a different tone each year. Your general rules for colour are match, tone or contrast.A perfect match is not always possible because of the different textures of materials used in other accessories, so the glove can be in lighter or darker shades of the same colour family.
Never confuse hues; a red with blue in it is quite different with a red with yellow in it. You would not wear a Brick Red glove with a Flame Red suit.
Basic colours such as black, white, navy, brown or a neutral beige are always fashionable and elegant and can be worn with most other colours. Leather gloves should match leather accessories and suede or fabric gloves should match millinery.
Decoration
To own a pair of unlined or silk lined fine leather gloves shows the elegance of the wearer and gives great pleasure by the fit and touch. Well fitted, they will flatter the hand and fashion promotes gloves to heighten the effect and show off the appearance of our clothes throughout the day.The best known English tannery is Pittards which produces a fine weight washable leather in a very wide range of colours. A good glove assortment would carry the basic, plus, be highlighted by the seasons fashion colours that would tone or match with other accessories or outfits. At the present we have the return of darker browns, camels and hues of deep red and purple. Pittards leather is used by glove factories all over the world. Fine leather is also produced in other tanneries in England, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Spain etc.
The fine weight skins are stretched by craftsmen (this is called staking) and are cut by hand, one part of the glove at a time, so that with expert fitting (some Stores offer this service) they are worn with great comfort.
