G is for Glove review

Literary Book Gifts Writing Fingerless Gloves Review

I had always heard stores sent things to bloggers for free to review but didn’t expect it to happen to me. Sure, I’ve had a few people offer to send me something but with the caveat I had to pay shipping. Honestly the price of the shipping was so high that I thought if I did do it, the shipping paid for the object.   In other words, not free. So when Literary Book Gifts contacted me to review their writing gloves, I was a tad skeptical.  However, they were true to their word and set me up to receive the gloves for free to be reviewed.

Midnight approves of fingerless gloves

I like the writing gloves.  They are comfy and I wish I had them a couple of months ago when I was visiting California.  Do you know they have snow in the mountains? Shocker, I know. My hands would get really cold at night typing away and this would have been perfect.  They are fingerless so you still have good dexterity to type but your palms and wrists stay warm.

The other thing I like as a cat person is I can pet my cat and still feel the fur with my fingers while keeping the rest of my hand warm. These gloves are perfect for the cold seasons. Midnight likes that he can still lick my fingers. He likes grooming me.

When asked to pick a color, I chose the purple heather color which is a deep violet flecked with black.  Very cool color combo.

writing gloves construction and other things

I looked at the seams and the edges and the craftsmanship looked pretty good.  There was only one seam on each glove along the thumb side and it laid flat and tight, no loose ends flopping around.  The knit is a tight weave with ridging along the top and bottom which looks good.  The thickness is thicker than a jersey knit, about the thickness of a thin sweater knit.

I can’t really comment on the price because you know me, I’m a bargain hunter who haunts thrift stores.  My friend pays hundreds of dollars for a purse.  She’s a handbag collector but she shops differently than I do.  My best handbags came from a thrift store that sold them for $1.49 a pound. I found a designer purse with seashells cut into squares, handsewn to totally cover the handbag, their shiny abalone rainbow colors catching the light, for around $2 which when I looked it up, retailed for more than $500 by that designer.  Was the purse worth $500? I could tell a lot of work went into it and obviously some people thought the designer brand was worth the money. The one I found was a little dirty but I was okay with that. The people who paid full price wanted something brand new, pristine and in perfect condition. So price really depends on how you shop, whether you go to designer retail shops or garage sales and everything in between.

one beef : where’s the washing instructions

While I like the gloves, I do have one beef. the website says it is about 35% cashmere wool blended with cotton, polyester and microfibers “for durability” but the gloves arrived with no fabric information, nor any care instructions.  You are eventually going to have to wash them and it would be good to know how.  Because I’m into textiles, I think exact fabric information and fabric care should always be included.  However, it could be because I received a “free journalist copy” that it isn’t packaged the same way as it would be for a paying customer.

Interestingly, the contact  information for the manufacturer Sparsil was included with the gloves but not the retailer Literary Book Gifts contact info or social networks.  Of course, I already had the Literary Book Gifts contact info because they emailed me when they first asked me to review the gloves but it is something you want in every package.  If you want your customer to return to you, I think a little card from your own company would be a good thing.

writing fingerless gloves review wrap-up

The thing about the gloves is that I didn’t know I needed them until I got them.  I always found gloves useless for typing as they make my fingers fatter so I hit the wrong letters all the time.  In regular gloves, my typos become epic. So if my hands were cold, I either toughed it out or wrapped it around a cup of hot coffee to warm them up before going back to typing. Now I can  wear these fingerless gloves in winter to warm my freezing hands when I stay up late typing. These will be perfect then.

Writing gloves
Literary Book Gifts

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Since this is my first review, let me know what you think, not only of the item but about the review or photos.  Is there information you think I should have included? Or is there information that you felt was unnecessary?  Does the review give you a fair representation of the gloves?

Out of curiousity, do you already wear fingerless gloves or gloves while typing when your hands are cold? How’s that working out? what color?