The Tao of Gloves

All photos of/by Muffy Aldrich

When thinking about buying gloves, it has to be done given the one irrefutable Law of Gloves. And that is, you are going to need a lot more than you think.

A bit of fur on the wrist dresses up the already fairly dressy gloves. Shown with Lotuff Small Leather Tote.

Gloves evaporate. They get shoved into pockets of coats and forgotten about. They fall — more stealthily than Frost’s downy flake — as you make your way outside on a snowy evening. They are left on the Acela to DC. (And the only thing worse than losing a pair of gloves is losing just one.) The Golden Law of Pens (the more expensive, the less likely you are to lose it) does not apply to gloves.

With a loden dress coat, one of the few areas where I might choose black…