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Victorian Courtship - gloves #92
Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th March 2025 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,victorian era,history,women,gloves,hands,Henry Wehman,nudity,queen victoria,French,buttons,Downton Abbey,historic houses,glove box,my dad bought a mansion,national trust
This is the second blog in the series on Victorian courtship and is all about the use of gloves.
During the Victorian era, gloves were deeply connected to the notion of the “perfect hand” which were to be “shapely, finely made, white with blue vein, taper fingers, rosy nails and slightly arched”. They were seen as social markers and accordingly, ladies wore gloves which were too small for them in order to shrink their hands.
Following an old French practice, glove length was traditionally measured in buttons based on the distance between the base of the thumb and the top edge of the glove. Until Queen Victoria’s reign gloves were quite short. F...