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Five seconds can be very long.
Especially when two motionless strangers are fighting a mental competition in front of the closed subway door as to who is pressing the door opener button, to which a corona aerosol may be stuck.
Well, in the future, exactly in this situation would be the opportunity for a fashionable moment, as the saying goes.
Because gloves not only keep you warm, they have also recently become the ideal virus defense accessory and sometimes contrast perfectly with a classic wool coat.
Like models made of transparent chiffon, bright pink or extra-long ones made of leather, which compress spectacularly at the wrists.
So that you don't go wrong when choosing the right model, it is worth taking a look at all the messages that such a glove can sometimes send involuntarily.
Because there are quite a few of them.
If you look very far back historically, to the Middle Ages, you come across the gauntlet.
If you threw it at the feet of your opponent, you asked him to duel.
How beautifully subtle, when you consider that today the bare fist does it immediately.
The glove has a slightly different meaning in Friedrich Schiller's ballad of the same name.
Miss Kunigunde puts her copy in the big cat pen as a token of her, well, dubious affection for Knight Delorges.
He dutifully saved the glove and then punched it in the girl's face again, which at the time was like a rebuff.
Depending on where and how you accidentally drop your glove, this could well have consequences.
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Gloves can also look pretty eccentric at times.
This can always be observed in various prominent people from pop culture who know how to use the symbolic accessory for their dramatic appearances.
Karl Lagerfeld, for example, because he was a little vain.
Gloves were always seen on your hands even indoors - rumors were rumored to hide signs of advanced skin aging.
Michael Jackson established the white, crystal-studded glove as an extravagant trademark because the King of Pop was known to be hypochondriac, even when no virus kept the world in suspense.
Pop icons like Madonna or Lady Gaga finally copied the look as an expressive element of their artificial costumes and recently inspired the celebrated Billie Eilish to create the glove, which caused a sensation as a complement to a complete Gucci look.
With chiffon gloves you are finally properly dressed again
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Long glove models made of fine materials such as silk or chiffon, which are known as part of the evening wear, are considered sophisticated, and therefore sometimes somewhat antiquated.
For those who don't remember: Until a few months ago, this was what you wore on special occasions when three more households were allowed.
In general, it is no longer considered contemporary to dress glamorously, which is why today only the Queen adorns herself with extra-long silk gloves on official occasions in order to maintain distance from the people.
For those who spontaneously decide against the Athleisurelook on Christmas Eve, they could also be the salvation.
Sophisticated and contemporary: gloves by Marine Serre
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In any case, men never know what to give away.
So they like to fall back on practical things that can be bought on Amazon.
As a result, there has been a disproportionate number of Screen Gloves under the Christmas tree for several years.
Explanation: Thanks to integrated sensors, it is possible to operate the smartphone in the iciest winter.
However, with so much functionality in fashion, it is well known that aesthetics are compromised.
If you wear the Screen Gloves anyway, you may have to expect to ruin your entire outfit.
Some of the screen gloves also look appealing.
Like this one from Roeckl
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Right now in the crisis, the glove is of course a proxy for tackling.
Perhaps that is why you see so many models that, from an aesthetic point of view, develop the appearance as if they were worker gloves, cleaning gloves or surgical gloves.
They are possibly the most elegant way to wear gloves right now.
Quasi to pay stylistic respect to the reliable nursing staff and the service sector.
Chivalry will never go out of style, someone named Delorges knew that.
Made of leather, not rubber: extra-long gloves by Valentino Garavani
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