Womenswear gloves

GCT 2008.3.20

Description

A pair of womenswear gloves, in black brush-dyed suede leather; wrist length (button length 2.5), with shaped turn-back cuff in banana skin-yellow suede leather with embroidery in padded silver-coloured metal thread in curling line design and short black tassel on outside edge, outseams, Boulton thumb, quirks and fourchettes.

Glove Details

Date:

1950-1959: Approximate date

Materials:

LEATHER (SUEDE)

Measurements:

Glove size: 6 3/4

Techniques:

APPLIED (METALLIC THREAD), APPLIED (tassleS), EMBROIDERY

Designer / Manufacturer / Retailer

Glovemaker: Trefousse

Gallery

Associations

Historical Associations:

Winton, Joseph

Association Type:

Provenance

Historical Association notes:

Donor Joseph Winton wrote: "You may perhaps already know that for many years Trefousse supplied gloves to Her Majesty the Queen, and also to the late Queen Mother and the late Princess Margaret. I executed many of the orders myself and they were great days!"