Evening glove
As evening gloves (or opera gloves ) are commonly long, sometimes up to the upper arm and later reaching Damenhandschuhe referred to evening gowns , ball gowns are worn and society dresses. The most common materials for evening gloves are leather, satin or velvet.
history
Rare in the 18th century, women's gloves only reappeared in the Directoire and Empire . The short-sleeved the prom dresses became, the longer they were. In the Biedermeier period , the lady wore short-sleeved ball gowns with white gloves that ended below the elbow in a point known as a "Schniepe". Throughout the 19th century until well into the second half of the 20th century, women's gloves of different lengths remained fashionable accessories for ball and evening wear (long gloves, for example, were an important stylistic device in Christian Dior's New Look ) and were also used in other social circles Occasions worn. Even today evening gloves are worn on particularly festive occasions (e.g. the Vienna Opera Ball , at which opera gloves are still mandatory for debutants) or by women who want to give their clothes an elegant touch.
Trivia
Probably the most famous movie scenes in which evening gloves were worn are those of Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946), Marilyn Monroe (1953) in Blondes preferred, and Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
See also
literature
- Erika Thiel: History of the Costume . Henschel-Verlag, Berlin, 2004 (8th edition), ISBN 3-89487-260-8 , p. 212.
- Georg Himmelträger : Art of the Biedermeier Period 1815–1835. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7913-0885-8 , p. 65.
Web links
- The history of the opera glove ( Memento from May 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Make Your Debut At The Vienna Opera Ball-Dresscode ( en ) Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- ↑ Put the blame on mame on YouTube
- ↑ Diamonds are a girl's best friend on YouTube
- ↑ Breakfast at Tiffany's, opening scene on YouTube