Dear All, Does anyone know how glove sizes work.
A few days ago my elderly mother-in-law had a fall and we had to take her to the emergency section of the Geelong Hospital where they checked her for concussion. She's OK now. In each examination booth there were three boxes attached to the wall, each of which had surgical gloves of a different size. The smallest were labelled 5-6, the next box was labelled 6-7 and the box with the largest gloves had 7-8 on the side. I looked carefully but I could not figure out what the numbers might mean. Some years ago a friend of mine (in the textile business) was carrying out an investigation on how to size panty-hose. All he told me about his investigation, after he had measured hundreds of women was that he considered the best size numbering method would be one that referred to volume. Apparently measures such as leg circumference, leg length, waist and hip circumference were not sufficient to describe the panty-hose region of female human bodies � women vary too much. What he said he needed to do was to devise an estimate of volume for each woman and then he could make some sense from all of his data. Is glove sizing some variation of this? For example, do the numbers on the glove boxes refer to hand volume in cubic inches? Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia
