White gloves: Yes or No?

[Jock Scot]

Wearing civilian Highland attire I have never worn white gloves and no one has taken me to one side and said "its just not done Old Boy turning up not wearing white gloves, you really must wear white gloves" so I assume that I must have done it right for the last few decades! Leave the white gloves at home.

[MacLowlife]

I got a pair (of kid ones) as a gift and wear them with white tie. Depending on one's perspective, mine are either gently aged or dirty. I always wear the left one and hold the right one, because I prefer not to shake a gloved hand myself...

But I have never found myself in need of them whilst kilted. I do agree for some kind of hono(u)r guard, but they would look silly at most black tie events...

[Pleater]

The information might be quite out of date now, but I was told - by a man wearing an opera cloak, that he needed white gloves as he would be dancing with ladies in low cut dresses. He was standing between a taxi and a closed shop at the time, staring fixedly at the white suede gloves I was wearing with the fluffy white coat, navy blue maxi dress and white leather boots.

Of course he might have been someone making a living conning gloves from people, but they were too big for me anyway, and rather a nuisance to keep clean.

That would have been - I think - 1970.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Downunder Kilt]

The only time in the last 30 or so years that I have seen a civilian male wearing white gloves to a formal event was my late father who was attending a formal occasion at his lodge.

[Frank McGrath]

The only time in the last 30 or so years that I have seen a civilian male wearing white gloves to a formal event was my late father who was attending a formal occasion at his lodge.

As a lodge officer, I wear white cotton gloves in lodge. When I attend lodge I am often kilted. I wear my PC as an officer, When I left my position, I just wear the argyll, without the gloves. But I keep them handy, just in case.