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Gloves with "whalebone" inserts on back. Why?

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In TK Maxx, I was admiring a very nice pair of Goretex gloves. However, they had a very bizarre feature. Over the back of the hands, between the wrist and the start of the fingers, was a piece of reinforcing - probably 5" by 1.5" - just like the "whalebone" that would support a boned dress.

Why? What was the point of it? Other than to be uncomfortable.
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to clear your googles................like a windscreen wiper
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James the Last, maybe wrist protectors? Some snowboarding gloves have built in wrist protection to save having a separate piece of clutter.
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James the Last, Gloves used for slalom racing have similar to protect the hands from hitting the poles.
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marcellus, you've obviously never danced with a girl wearing dress with whalebone!

pam w, I guess so, thanks, although it looked more as though it was to deal with impact protection, rather than providing support.
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For those in C21: 5"x1.5" is approximately 130mm x 40mm.

Actually, I would be surprised at anybody in Britain using inches these days, were it not for Mrs a still doing so. But then she is a granny. Are inches still taught in British schools?
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achilles, Be surprised then Smile We still work in inches at work Madeye-Smiley
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James the Last, 5" x 1.5"? you have big hands...
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Ah take me back to schooldays and corporal punishment delivered with the Ferule (sp?) a length of whalebone around 12" (30cm to you achilles, wink ) and covered with leather.
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Bones, strewth. What work is that? Repairing penny farthings?
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Bones, strewth. What work is that? Repairing penny farthings?


Yes, they recycle them. Toofy Grin
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geepee, that'd explain it. Very Happy
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Ah! Slalom; that explains it.

David Murdoch, they were great long gloves with huge great enormous lumps of plastic in them. Serious mountain gloves.

I'm 35, BTW, and happily communicate in inches, feet, yards, miles and mm. The last for where size is crucial; for general conversation, Imperial measurements.
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James the Last, fascinating. I am of (ahem) a senior generation so can communicate in all that lot - since I was taught them at school. But midway though my engineering training in the 60s we virtually slung Imperial. I thought that nobody under , say, 40 would have been taught Imperial units (which are pretty dire to work with). Where did you learn them?
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James the Last, I think I know what you mean - my brother bought some yesterday. Leki gloves, RRP £99, down to £17.
These have got two flat plastic ribs on the back, and on the front - what first looked like "glove horns" (or so we thought). Turns out when we got home that they actually fit in the palm of your hand, so when you tighten the wrist band, it makes your wrist pretty stiff - obviously as a wrist guard built in.

Lucky, really - he's a beginner so might come in handy Smile

Luckily all this gubbins comes out if you want to take it out or it gets uncomfortable. A bargain, at any rate- superb gloves for the money and the protection built in is a bonus
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achilles, >>Where did you learn them?

Does one need to learn them? SI units for Physics, of course. But 6 inches is a much more convenient measure than 15cm; 2 feet trips off the tongue more easily than 60cm. And 60cm, being a precise number, implies a level of accuracy that 2 feet doesn't.

eddyr, The make was snow-something. Snowline I think; £60 to £30, pretty tempted at the time, actually - don't sound like your gloves, just really good warm gloves, long wrists and a funny bit on the back. Wish I'd bought them in retrospect (to go with my £60 Goretex ski trouser mega-bargain, thank you TK Maxx!)
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