Ivory leather gloves with pearl buttons

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A pair of ivory elbow-length kid gloves. The gloves are made from one panel of fabric that wraps around the arm and seamed to itself around the fingers. There are individual gussets around each finger, which are seamed to the rest of the glove with felled seams. At the top side of the hand are two 2.25” long decorative top stitches. At the underside of the glove is a 4.75” long decorative ovoid opening near the wrist. The are three faux pearl plastic buttons on the proper right of the decorative opening and three corresponding buttonholes on the proper left. Both gloves are machine sewn together and are unlined in the inside. There is no label.

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