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Going Hell For (Long) Leather (Gloves)


Posted At : 05 August 2010 18:16 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: Long Leather Gloves, Gloves, Gloves, Gloves, Gloves, accessories, ladies leather gloves

This autumn/winter brings great delight to us given that we are the keenest long leather glove aficionadi going and said gloves are ... wait for it .. so hot right now. We started off four years ago with these, our classic long leather gloves and then added these long suede gloves, and then a pair of these (my erstwhile favourites) until these bad boys came along: long black suede gloves with swarovski crystal scatter. Oh and not forgetting these.

Last month's Vogue Catwalk report devoted a page to arguably one of the most glamorous accessories going:

We've circled a few of our favourites - we've added similar pairs below.

Long Leather Gloves, Elbow Length Gloves, Black Gloves

Black Suede Elbow Gloves with Gold Zip

£99

Long Plum Leather Gloves with Button Detail

Long Plum Leather Gloves with Button Detail (BrightByBlack.co.uk)

£90

Long Black Satin Lycra Gloves | Ladies' Evening Gloves | Black.co.uk

Long Black Satin Lycra Gloves

£45

 

Glove's Labours Lost


Posted At : 06 January 2010 15:38 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: Black, Gloves, Gloves, Gloves, Gloves, accessories, ladies leather gloves

 I don’t think I have ever been unable to make it into Black HQ. Nature's wrath, eh?

 
While it currently looks like this where I am in London:
 
It looks like this en route:
 
 
 
 
And like this where I need to be:
 
 
So I have been told to stay where I am.
 
I am not moving until it looks like this:
 
 
Because the last time I went out when it looked like this:
 
 
I lost one of these:
 
 Long Black Suede Gloves - Black - Black.co.uk
 
And could not have accounted for the loss felt by its absence, which led me the next day to return to the point where I had lost it; on a hill in the dark, stuck in the thick, treacherous snow and ice, back wheel revving insanely (somehow missed the snow-driving lesson as a youth); to find said glove looking rather like this:
 
 
 
Lesson: If you want to keep your beloved accessories from becoming road kill, do not make any unnecessary journeys. This also applies to anything cashmere-based.
 

The New! Black


Posted At : 10 December 2009 13:42 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: Black, Gloves, Fingerless Leather Driving Gloves, Dannii Minogue, Gloves, Gloves, Gloves, accessories, driving gloves, ladies leather gloves

 

One of the wonders of the 21st Century, ARGUABLY, is Dannii Minogue's shape-shifting hair. It becomes many wondrous things. However, getting to the bottom of it - much like getting to the bottom of long division (I was a simple child) – is a path down which I am not equipped to tread.
 
But what I can do is point out that on one occasion, Ms Minogue sported some Fingerless Leather Driving Gloves, which prompted New! Magazine to do a feature on fingerless leather gloves and as a consequence phone us and ask for an image of ours. Easy logic – the happiest of paths.
 

 

Black in Time[s]


Posted At : 30 November 2009 13:52 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: Gloves, Gloves, Gloves, Gloves, driving gloves, Fashion, ladies leather gloves

 Black.co.uk Ladies' Leather Driving Gloves featured in this weekend's Times Magazine. £38. Take a closer look.

 

 

 

I'd Love to Glove MJ


Posted At : 30 June 2009 12:40 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: Black, New Year's Eve, Michael Winner, Grace Jones, MJ, Rachida Dati, John Sergeant, driving gloves, Fashion, ladies leather gloves

…but I can’t.

I’ve gloved some people in my time: Rachida Dati, Michael Winnner, Grace Jones, John Sergeant. I’ve even gloved New Year’s Eve. (Not my best).

 
Black sells some lovely gloves. The Sunday Telegraph’s Stella loves our gloves. But when I see gloves like these I feel I’ve failed. Diamond-crusted gloves. What could be better? If we’re a glove retailer and we DON’T sell diamond-crusted gloves, what is our worth? What are we doing here? Who am I? Who are you?
 
I guess that’s the thing about MJ’s death. It may have created a pandemic of introspection – not necessarily sparked off by feelings of glove-range inadequacy – causing Man in The Mirror to head the iTunes Download chart.
 
I'm Gonna Make A Change,
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . .
 

Gonna go off to Swarovski (not de Beers, not yet). With these:

 Ladies' Luxury Driving Gloves - Supersoft Cream and Gold Nappa Leather Driving Gloves - Black.co.uk

 
 
Shamone.

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