White gloves: Yes or No?

[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The information might be quite out of date now, but I was told - by a man wearing an opera cloak, that he needed white gloves as he would be dancing with ladies in low cut dresses.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.