glove

The clothes that the gloves (gloves) cover up a way. English glove comes from glof of Old English used in the U.K. in the Middle Ages. I generally tend to point at a tool of the baseball when I say a glove in Japanese.

I call the thing which I can cover by one finger gloves and call the thing which can cover the finger except the thumb in a mass with a mitten. In addition, there is the opening finger glove that a finger can crop out.

Much material is used for the material of gloves, and cloth, woolen yarn, felt, leather, rubber, latex, the metal are used, too. The washing glove which was made with a soft piece of cloth(washing glove) I use it to wash, a body.

The amount unit is 双 (pair). It is used da (deca pairs), 12 for business as dozen (dozen pairs) in ten.

The main purpose to wear gloves is manual protection. Not to mention protecting a hand from heat and cold, I protect a hand from a chemical substance and the virus that it is dangerous scratch and cut and to touch barehanded. The disposable gloves made by latex and vinyl are used as effective means to prevent an infectious disease among medical workers. The fingerless glove has to protect a hand from cold, and it is used in the situation that it is necessary that and I can still use the finger-tip freely. It is not to a wrist, and, in the gloves, there is the thing to protect to around elbows, and there can be the thing that I call these Gantt let and distinguish it.

The gloves are produced, and brand thing gloves of expensive womens are still made all over the world in France, Italy, Denmark, Hungary and Canada. State of New York, in particular(Gloversville) It is known that it was the production center of は gloves, but in late years many gloves are made in East Asia. In Japan, about 90% of gloves made in the country are made around Higashi-Kagawa-shi, Kagawa.