Glove stretcher

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Stretching tool
Gloves used to be indispensable fashion accessories: wealthy ladies used them to protect their skin from the bright sun. If the gloves were dirty, they were washed with green soap. As usual, the wax was then boiled, causing the fabric to shrink. After drying it was therefore necessary to stretch the fingers of the gloves. This was done with a special glove pliers, which were often made of boxwood or boxwood, a very strong type of wood, or of metal. By sliding the pliers one by one into all the fingers of the glove and then squeezing them shut, the glove regained its shape so that the frail ladies' fingers fit in again.Gloves used to be indispensable fashion accessories: wealthy ladies used them to protect their skin from the bright sun. If the gloves were dirty, they were washed with green soap. As usual, the wax was then boiled, causing the fabric to shrink. After drying it was therefore necessary to stretch the fingers of the gloves. This was done with a special glove pliers, which were often made of boxwood or boxwood, a very strong type of wood, or of metal. By sliding the pliers one by one into all the fingers of the glove and then squeezing them shut, the glove regained its shape so that the frail ladies' fingers fit in again.

Image: c. 1870. © Tiffany & Co.

 

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