Gloves without fingers, like most of the most refined and original things, came to us from France, where the model is called mitaines. Mitki - elegant gloves of a non-standard style - were originally created not to emphasize the elegance of ladies' fingers. Knitted mittens were worn by people working in the professions: the thing gave warmth, hid the calluses and did not hamper the movements. As a fashion accessory, female mittens were used only in the late 18th century. Elegant gloves without fingers sewed from different materials, fashion designers came up with original styles, decorating the hands of secular ladies.
As often happens in the fashion world, a practical thing aroused the interest of the opposite sex. Once an exceptionally feminine model of gloves without fingers began to acquire the features of "unisex", was riddled with rivets and other brutal accessories, and now in mittens there are flaunts of bikers, cyclists, racers. True, men prefer to call mitts sports gloves or "without hands".
What are they like?
Today the variety of glove styles without fingers is so impressive that you can not immediately understand what to wear with mittens. In fact, in creating a style, you should rely only on your own taste. Female mittens are selected either in tune to other things, or they stop on a bright model that attracts attention due to elegant contrast.
- Knitted mittens are perfectly combined with volume jumpers and winter dresses, sweaters, the sleeve of which is not longer than three quarters. The most creative designers advise to complement knitted mitts even such a conservative thing as a strict jacket.
- Leather mitts - an excellent choice for lovers of Gothic or brutal style in clothes. In combination with a leather cloak or a jacket-kosuhoy, mittens will create the very image of a femme fatale.
- Mitiny long looks great in a half-masted version. They can be worn with tops and blouses with short sleeves.
- Mittens are delicate - an accessory for ladies who have a feminine style in priority. In combination with an exciting blouse, openwork gloves without fingers will create an image of Turgenev's young lady.
- Mitten-sleeves look original with vests, and this is very actual in the changing weather of demi-season when the sun is shining, then hiding, and the air temperature unpredictably jumps.
- Evening mittens, made of satin, guipure and other elegant materials, look beautiful with strapless dresses and do not hide a beautiful manicure and ringlets.
Pen grille
Who did not have to rummage in his purse or dial sms-ku on a frosty day? Shoot gloves, oh, as you do not want, but you can not do it in another way. Caring designers took this moment into account and created the mittens-transformers, which turn into a mitten due to a closing pocket. If necessary, it can be wrapped - and the fingers will be free to act, and the handles will not have time to freeze.
In winter, mohair mittens are actual. The yarn made of goat-angorka wool, like all natural materials, gives real warmth. Well, if in your wardrobe there is already some furry mohair thing - be it a sweater or a scarf, in combination with the mitts you get a stylish kit.
For needlewomen
Among the admirers of spokes and hooks, knitted mittens are very popular. The process of creating them does not take much time, and if you choose a style without membranes between your fingers, you can not bind mitts even to a novice needlewoman. Of course, knitting is leisure for those who are assiduous, but even sanguine lackeys sometimes want to take the knitting needles, put on skeins with yarn and weave something like that! So let it be not some banal scarf, but original gloves without fingers - a handy and stylish accessory that has been in fashion for two centuries already!