{"product_id":"grenoble-white-1950s-cream-kid-leather-opera-gloves-size-6","title":"Grenoble White · 1950s Cream Kid Leather Opera Gloves, Size 6¼","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIvory kid leather · mousquetaire evening gloves · five-line point stitching · three mother-of-pearl buttons · made in France · 1950s · size 6¼ · length approx. 40cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvory kid leather, mousquetaire length, with three mother-of-pearl buttons at the wrist and five lines of point stitching drawn across the back of the hand in perfect parallel. Kid leather this fine has a suede-matte surface that holds the light differently from every angle, pale as unbleached linen, cool to the touch as still water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mousquetaire glove, long past the elbow, belongs to the grammar of Continental evening dress. French glovework of the 1950s was among the finest in the world: the tanning of kid, the fitting to a numbered last, the finishing by hand, these were trades passed down in family workshops in Millau and Grenoble and a handful of other towns where nothing about the work had changed much since the eighteenth century. Point de Paris stitching in this number and spacing is not a flourish but a signature, the way a maker says: here, this is who I am. The word ganterie covers all of it but translates only to \"glove-making,\" which is not quite enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in France, 1950s. Size 6¼. Length approximately 40cm. A pair of gloves that understand formality as something one does with the whole arm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44108990349446,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2942.jpg?v=1782266917","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/grenoble-white-1950s-cream-kid-leather-opera-gloves-size-6","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}