Weronika wrote: Can anyone explain why children always have to wear mittens and not real gloves??
Maybe it starts when a child is a baby - can you imagine a mother dressing a wriggly baby in tiny gloves with separate tiny fingers? Mittens do simplify the process. And the mother keeps on giving the child mittens until it's big enough to put its own gloves on or complain about the mittens? Just a guess ... Oh, OK, I've just read further in the digest, and see that other ladies have said the same thing. <G> I do remember having the string joining my mittens, and it was a very long string. There was a knot tied in the middle, making a big loop next to my back, to make the string just the right length. I don't think I ever minded the string, or having mittens. My mother used to make me fur-backed mittens, and gloves later on, using rabbit-fur, and I loved them. And why are fingerless gloves also called mittens? I'm thinking of the lacy, ladies', variety, with only just enough finger to be separate, and also the woolly kind worn by old men (including DH <G>) with just the fingertips missing, for fiddly work in the cold. Margery. ============================================ [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK ============================================ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
