There are reasons against a pair of mittens.

Anyone who wears them is a total failure in terms of fine motor skills.

Look for a pace in your pocket, pull a mouth and nose protector over your ears, open the bike lock, it's hardly possible with mittens.

On the other hand, the news on the cell phone is often even more urgent than these everyday activities in the analogue world.

Jennifer Wiebking

Editor in the "Life" department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

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Here, too, your hands are tied in mittens, but you can't get any further in finger gloves by swiping on the display.

When smartphones and social networks really took off in the early 1900s, there were first solutions to the problem – finger stalls with sensors to operate the cell phone.

Since then, a whole category of tech apparel has emerged, wearables.

Lambskin and leather or fleece

Anything can now be measured as long as it is close enough to the body, and the watch is used to answer the call.

However, gloves with smartphone-sensitive sensors that work like a digital ballpoint pen have not caught on.

In any case, they are not yet available from Apple.

For this, fashion is increasingly relying on mittens.

It could also have something to do with the fact that people do change after all, or at least discard habits.

Many now light a cigarette less often in the cold, and reach for the plastic lid for the coffee-to-go less often, to name just two situations in which mittens have always been impractical.

But they are cuddly warm.

The hands are really deep in the lambskin cave, for example in the handmade models from Tief im Wald (first and second pair from the top).

Or in the lambskin and leather model by Roeckl (below).

Or in black fleece from Geox (hanging left), the brand that is committed to the smart all-weather range.

Or in the thin knitted cover by Tory Burch (centre right).

Yes, such mittens are beautiful, but you don't have to sugarcoat them too much.

It doesn't work without handling and dressing and undressing, which is also why they should actually be offered individually.

One of the two is always gone quickly.