Gloves

[Northam Saint]

Only one glove to get - Dents, gents peccary leather, cashmere lined. Gorgeous. Prefer stud fastening. £350 but normally on offer at around £290.
Yes I have got some and no, I did not buy them.

My Great Great Grandpaents worked for Dents, in fact most of the family worked for them, living in a one up one down what would be called a slum in Worcester. Some went on to make gloves in Somerset. These were Victorian times when everyone wore gloves.

 

[p.b]

Only one glove to get - Dents.... £350 but normally on offer at around £290.

I guess at those prices getting just the one rather than a pair makes them more affordable.

 

[Hectorsgaf]

I guess at those prices getting just the one rather than a pair makes them more affordable.

 

[Northam Saint]

Still haven’t made my mind up, had so many pairs and none have worked. BUT, I happened of some forgotten mittens, stop laughing ! They are Fatface ones that flap over to fingerless too. I tried them yesterday on a walk and they were good, in fact the warmest my hands have ever been. So I am looking towards mittens now, again stop laughing, if they keep my hands warm I don’t care.

Front runner now are Dachstein Mittens. These are interesting, they make them too big then boil them which shrinks the wool to a felt like finish.

 

[Grarea]

That is good thinking.
But it still does remind me of that rhyme:

"The three little kittens, they lost their mittens,"

The three little kittens, they lost their mittens, And they began to cry, "Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear, That we have lost our mittens." "What! Lost…

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[Northam Saint]

That is good thinking.
But it still does remind me of that rhyme:

"The three little kittens, they lost their mittens,"

The three little kittens, they lost their mittens, And they began to cry, "Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear, That we have lost our mittens." "What! Lost…

www.poetryfoundation.org

LOL !!!!

I suppose there is something in keeping all your fingers together and sharing the warmth. My fingers get so cold they ache.

 

[Grarea]

Yes, definitely.
I have some 'lobster claw' cycling gloves for when it gets real cold.
For the same reason.
Also, with mittens, you could pop one of those hand warmer type things in there as well.

I should go back to looking for some for my son again.
His problem is that his hands create no heat, so the gloves, although they keep the wind off, his hands get no warmer.
His circulation is rubbish.
Which is why we need to relook at heated gloves. Although will look at heated mittens as well now that you have mentioned it. They make way more sense.
I guess you could wear some thin gloves underneath if you temporarily needed to use your fingers for something.

Another thing that helps him is eating oily fish.
made a surprising difference to the temperature of his hands.
(I mean eating them, not rubbing your hands with them)

 

[Northam Saint]

Yes, definitely.
I have some 'lobster claw' cycling gloves for when it gets real cold.
For the same reason.
Also, with mittens, you could pop one of those hand warmer type things in there as well.

I should go back to looking for some for my son again.
His problem is that his hands create no heat, so the gloves, although they keep the wind off, his hands get no warmer.
His circulation is rubbish.
Which is why we need to relook at heated gloves. Although will look at heated mittens as well now that you have mentioned it. They make way more sense.
I guess you could wear some thin gloves underneath if you temporarily needed to use your fingers for something.

Another thing that helps him is eating oily fish.
made a surprising difference to the temperature of his hands.
(I mean eating them, not rubbing your hands with them)

Not nice having cold hands. Mine go white and it takes very little exposure to set them off. The thing with heated ones is they need a battery pack of some sort. I suppose though to build heat you couple use them boil in bag and click to heat things that are reuseable.

 

[Grarea]

Yes, the thing with the ones he tried, was that you didn't need them on for long and once up to temp he could turn them off.
So the battery lasted ages.

I am sure there are various types of 'hand warmers' that would slip into a mitten.

OK, I have had a bit of a rummage. More out of curiosity. The ones we got after loads of research were:
Outdoor Research StormTracker heated gloves. They weren't cheap.
But ours were faulty. We just haven't had time since to revisit them.
If i remember rightly, the battery pack was pretty good in that it wasn't that obtrusive.

I think the heat packs and mittens might be a better way to go.

 

[R181]

I suffer from cold hands and even heavy down-filled gloves don’t do it for me. Mittens, however, work like a charm. My warmest pair have a deerskin shell and a removable wool liner.

I have a pair of those, except likely moose hide which is still supple but thicker than deer skin. They work well in our cold so should do really well in the cold the UK gets. Often called choppers mitts.

Bob

 

[Rufusdog]

I have a pair of those, except likely moose hide which is still supple but thicker than deer skin. They work well in our cold so should do really well in the cold the UK gets. Often called choppers mitts.

Bob

I bought mine from LL Bean; they’re called “Buckskin Chopper Mitts”. Really warm and supple even at -30C or thereabouts.

 

[Northam Saint]

Ordered a pair of the Dachstein Mittens, let’s see how they go.

 

[Chris]

Will be interested to see how you get on with them, they sound good.

 

[Northam Saint]

Will be interested to see how you get on with them, they sound good.

Just need a length of wool, through each arm of my jacket knotted to the mittens ! LOL !!! Old School Style. ????

 

[Chris]

Just need a length of wool, through each arm of my jacket knotted to the mittens ! LOL !!! Old School Style. ????

You laugh but no-one who did that ever watched one of their mittens blow off a mountain.