Ivory leather gloves with pearl buttons
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Ivory leather gloves with pearl buttons

Unidentified · early to mid 20th century

leather and plastic
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

A pair of ivory elbow-length kid gloves. The gloves are made from one panel of fabric that wraps around the arm and seamed to itself around the fingers. There are individual gussets around each finger, which are seamed to the rest of the glove with felled seams. At the top side of the hand are two 2.25” long decorative top stitches. At the underside of the glove is a 4.75” long decorative ovoid opening near the wrist. The are three faux pearl plastic buttons on the proper right of the decorative opening and three corresponding buttonholes on the proper left. Both gloves are machine sewn together and are unlined in the inside. There is no label.

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