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1. Fort Belvedere Gloves: gentl.mn/2fA3KKo
2. White Linen Pocket Square with Navy Blue Handrolled X Stitch: gentl.mn/2wmdQBW
3. Knit Tie in Solid Prussian Blue Silk: gentl.mn/2xz4iqN
4. Mid Brown Socks with Green and Cream Clocks in Cotton: gentl.mn/2yITMuQ
5. Fort Belvedere Boot Laces: gentl.mn/2xHHftv
So what's the difference?
Cheap gloves are stiff. You can't really feel anything and they limit the range of movement. On the other hand, a quality glove is soft, stretchy and it looks very elegant when it's on your hand. A few years back, I was sick and tired of the same old black and brown gloves and I decided to create my own line of Fort Belvedere gloves. I wanted something that was bolder in colors. I wanted something in grey or chamois yellow which are classic staples of a men's wardrobe. As well as Bordeaux or green or other colors.
So for gloves, it all starts with a pattern. The important part is that you get different sizes that work well for men's hands no matter if they're short or small, regular or bigger long. Most cheaper glove sizes are just scaled up on a computer in a CAD program but that doesn't really fit the needs of most men.
First of all, you want a quality pair of glove leather and not many tanners can actually produce that very specialized tanning process. So you want something that is soft and stretchy so your hand can move freely. We get our sheepskin leathers which are supremely soft have exactly the right thickness and properties from Italy and our peccary leather from Germany.
Second, glove leather has to be constantly pulled and stretched because that ensures that the glove is cut the right way and later on you can move freely with your fingers no matter if you make a fist or keep your hands straight.
Now that the leather is prepared, it's time for cutting. Cutting sounds easier than it actually is. You have to position the pattern the right way. On skins like peccary where you have natural scars and imperfections, it's the skill of the cutter to put the gloves in a certain way that you get the best quality with having the least amount of visible scars at the same time without wasting leather because that would price up the final price
Once the leather is cut properly, it's time to sew them up. Basically, there are two options. You can have a machine sewn glove and a handsewn glove. Not all machine sewn gloves are alike. You basically can sew a glove inside out which is often a method utilized in China or in a lower-cost production or you can have very skilled artisans who sew them with a machine from the outside. Now when I say machine sewn that means it's a simple machine and they still have to align the leather. They have to control the stitch density. They have to get the lines straight and make sure that the interlining is exactly in the right spot so you end up with a glove that fits well and looks the part.
Which brings us to the next kind, handsewn glove. When we say handsewn glove we mean every single stitch on that thing is handsewn. There's no machine involved. Yes, that's just a skilled sewer who does one stitch at a time and just a few gloves per day. In fact, sometimes they can even just produce one pair of gloves per day. Obviously, that's slower than sewing it with a machine and because of that, a pair of handsewn gloves is more expensive.
You might think we're done by now, however, we're not. Now it's time to iron the glove to release any kind of wrinkles and it looks really perfect. If we wanted to we could now even add a second stage of ironing with a little iron and that would add a little more shine to the leather but we believe that a classic pair of men's gloves shouldn't be too shiny but have a medium shine so we skip that step.
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