Gloves
Gloves were a required part of a respectable person’s wardrobe. Long gloves or mitts protected from sun while outdoors, as well as lending propriety to bare arms. In this period, propriety still demanded short gloves or mitts with long-sleeved dresses.
Left to right: Embroidered cotton wrist length gloves, first half of the 1800s, owned by Lucy Austin Potter of Trumbull Country, Ohio, 96.70.3, gift of Sally A. McKean; white linen bias-cut gloves with linen embroidery, linen tape drawstring, early 1800s, 508, gift of Lucy Carpenter Sweet; bias-cut diaper-woven linen mitt with lace trim, 1780-1810, 99.72.1., DAR Museum; hand-knit silk gloves, first half of 1800s, 52.104.3, gift of Nancy Halsall Eck in honor of Nancy Sinclair Clark.
