Thursday, December 16, 2010

a former christmas gift from Paris

As I took photos of these vintage evening gloves today I found myself wondering who they had been originally bought for.  They are probably almost 100 years old, but are unworn.  They still have a little square of tissue paper tucked inside the button opening.

The gloves are in pale cream soft kid leather, made by  Gant Perrin  in Paris.  Each wrist is closed with 3 tiny pearl  buttons.

They may have been made to measure because they are tiny, nobody I know today has hands this slim.
Do you think a young mademoiselle once received these for Christmas?
They are up for sale in my shop .

I love it when an object shoots me back through time.




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