Author: The Glove Guru

Joe McGarry - Also known as the Glove Guru Joe formerly founded Polygenex International, Inc. in 1989, the largest specialty knit glove manufacturer in the world at the time. Thousands of companies and users follow his advice on glove manufacturing, or user guidance, and utilize his gloves every day. Joe's specialty is in industrial work and critical environment high-tech gloves. Joe founded Gloves-Online in 1996 to assist consumers needing to locate hard to find gloves and educate consumers about different glove features and benefits. With just over a quarter century of glove experience, he undoubtedly can give you useful and practical glove advice.

In Honor of my Glove Anniversary

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Exclusive Anniversary Holiday Special
December 12th marks our 22nd Anniversary as a Glove Company. As a special thank you, you can receive 12% off all of your Holiday Orders until the 12thof December. There are no restrictions on the type or style of glove or the amount of gloves you order. The discount applies to the total product order and does not include shipping charges.
Your Discount code: Must be registered for code.
Shopping Link > www.gloves-online.com
Link to some of our best Christmas sellers:
                                                   


Gloves are great gifts and stocking stuffers! So, spread some Holiday cheer with this Special Discount Offer since we are allowing you to share this special email offer with your family and friends for one time only. We just ask that they sign up for our Newsletter as a Thank you.
Again, thank you for subscribing and please don’t hesitate to contact me personally if you need any glove advice or assistance.
We Glove You at Gloves-Online!
Happy Holidays, The Glove Guru

Touch Screen Gloves???

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OK!  OK! There’s no need to remind me that I just wrote about “these” gloves and cell phones gloves just 2 days ago. Let’s just say I’m a bit behind the times. I’m not saying nor would I ever say I’m behind on glove technology – I’m just behind on cell phone technology. After all, I still enjoy my clunky Blackberry keyboard. And, believe it or not, it was my very first cell-phone just two years ago. Don’t laugh – I’m just a glove guy! 
Anyway, my “young” entrepreneurial staff brought me to my senses once again. It became touch-and-go for a time (pun intended), but I’m reminded that the touch-screen interface has finally become mainstream. It seems these days, high-quality touch-screen-based interfaces have made their way into PC’s, tablets, phones, PMP’s, digital cameras, and a host of other devices. 
Actually, and after thinking about this, this was good news to my ears since we sell TOUCH SCREEN GLOVES, too. WOW, I nailed it again! But don’t forget, I am the Glove Guru. So, after 2 days, I relented and now we also have a shopping page devoted to guess what? Yep! That was an easy guess, huh? 
It’s called: TOUCH SCREEN GLOVES.  Now you can Connect in the Cold whether you use cell phone gloves or touch screen gloves! 
Anybody want to buy my Blackberry? I’ll be happy to throw in a “new” pair of cell phone gloves!

Your Cell Phone Gloves Source and Headquarters

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A year ago today I mentioned our record sales of cell phone gloves and one year later things haven’t changed. This past weekend we surpassed last year’s sales already. I’m not surprised since we expanded our cell phone glove choices to over 23 models and styles – not including all of the sizes and color options. 
In fact, we even have a special shopping page dedicated to Cell-Phone Gloves. This page makes it easier to narrow your choices down from all of our winter glove offerings and includes all of the men’s, women’s, and girl’s models ranging from fashion leathers to colorful knits. 
When shopping for cell-phone gloves you need to know that there are two types. One type has removable finger tips and thumb tops and the newer types are touch-screen versions. With either type you don’t have to remove your gloves in the cold weather to use your cell phone or tablets. 
We also offer a handy Gift Certificate option for those picky persons on your holiday shopping list. This way they can pick the model they prefer and you don’t have to guess on the size or color either. 
Although we are probably the largest source for cell-phone gloves, I wouldn’t delay. They will sell out fast since they make ideal gifts and stocking stuffers. 
Happy Holidays, The Glove Guru

Children’s Gloves make great gifts

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It’s rare that I mention children’s gloves and I’m not sure why since they have represented a large share of our business for many years. As a matter of fact, I’ve even developed and made some models for other companies. It’s a hand protection segment often overlooked by the big glove companies but kids need and like gloves, too. 
The obvious thought that comes to mind is protection from the cold during the winter months. I remember that well when I was a kid and gloves were as important as a good pair of boots and my mother was always right to make sure I was equipped with a good pair of gloves. After all, they were vital for snowball wars! 
Many don’t think about it, but we offer children’s gloves for every imaginable need. Examples are: church functions, school plays, white gloves, cotillion functions, bell choirs, work gloves helping dad and mom, winter sports, and even parade gloves. 
If you’re curious or need some children’s gloves you can go to this link to see our entire lineup. 
By the way, they make great stocking stuffers, too! 
Shown in the image are the Wells Lamont Children’s WorkGloves. 

The Gloves that started it all

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The All-Day Protective Glove Liners not only continue to be great gloves for many types of users, they also represent my history in glove design, development, and manufacturing going back to 1989. 
I originally developed these gloves as glove liners to protect healthcare workers from problems with latex gloves. That was back when these same healthcare providers had to wear gloves “by law” to protect them from blood-born pathogens due to the AIDS virus. In a nutshell, they were the first universally sized, thin-knit gloves which could be worn under disposable gloves. It isn’t rocket science today but two decades ago it was and I landed in the glove business overnight due to the unmet demand for thin knit protective gloves. 
To make a long story short, these same gloves found their way into the manufacturing glove wearing sectors and eventually became the benchmark in the photographic and imaging industry to protect films, negatives, and photographs from workers handling them. 
Today, they still find their way into new uses and a customer, who recently purchased some, told us how he found us. You have to see this U-Tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R1YDJIWpTU
Now, I’m in the scanner cleaning business and this guy is bringing these gloves into the digital age. 
I wish I thought of this but I’m still the Glove Guru.

Halloween Gloves Spike Consumer Glove Sales

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Who knew?  We do! 
Yes, every year in October we see a rapid spike in our consumer glove sales. It’s no mystery either. It is all about people looking for that special glove to add the final touch to their Halloween costumes. 
  
Although most of these glove sales include our white glovesand our colored gloves, we do see an uptick in glove sales with our opera length colored fashion gloves and our black gloves among a few others. In fact, I’m told by our staff that the customer phone requests can get rather amusing, too. 
From a businessman’s perspective, I’m inclined to believe that our prices are so low, their almost scary. And that’s no mystery either. 
 
Happy Halloween from the Glove Guru.

Cold weather gloves for your I-Phone and cell phone

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5 Million New I-Phones were sold this past weekend, so you can imagine we will be overwhelmed with glove orders for these extraordinary gloves. The cold weather is here already so don’t wait and be forced to settle for a model that is out of stock. 
We were the first to introduce cell phone gloves to the world back in 2008 and we sell out our allotments every year since. Our best sellers are the Isotoner and Freehands models and they are great gifts, too.
We stock many models, many styles, including men’s and women’s models and teens. And by the way, our touch screen gloves will never be obsolete. 
See our complete line up: Winter Cell Phone Gloves

About Nappa Leather Gloves

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Many customers ask what Nappa Leather is so it’s time to strip away the myths about Nappa leathers. 

Nappa leather is full-grain leather, typically dyed, and made from unsplit kidskin, lambskin or sheep skin. It is tanned with salts of chromium or aluminum sulfate, and noted for its softness, stretchiness, flexibility, and durability. It is often used in high-quality leather products such as high-end furniture, wallets, handbags, and most often high quality dress and fashion gloves. 
Nappa leather should not be confused with cowhide which is thicker, less flexible, and used in heavy-duty work gloves. 
Even though Italian leather craftsmen have mastered making and working with Nappa leather, the tanning process which produces Napa leather was invented in 1875 at the Sawyer Tanning Company in Napa, California. 
Examples of popular Men’s and Women’s Nappa leather gloves can be found at the following links:

Gloves-Online announces new “Hot Glove” pre-order program for the new ICON Fashion Gloves

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The new ICON Designer Art Leather Gloves arriving in October are now available for pre-order since we purchased all that the factory can produce this year. Quantities will be limited due to their popularity, limited production, and the fact that these glove models have become collector’s items. The design patterns change annually so we suggest you reserve your own personal pair today. 
The ideal Christmas gift this year. 
This pre-order program has been popular since 2007 for our Chinchilla Lined Gloves. Order today and we will guarantee immediate delivery once they arrive. 

Celebrating One Million Page Views for Gloves

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Early today, Gloves-Online.com reached the astonishing milestone of One Million page views since January 1– and before our busy season. 
Page views are the conservative metric when evaluating web site analytics. For example, if we counted actual hits, the number would be 7 to 10 times higher due to images, etc. You can see this in the chart.
Although we are very proud of this success, I wish to thank all the glove families that made this happen. My thanks (ranked according to their contributions) go to Mr. & Mrs. White Gloves, Leather Gloves, Winter Gloves, Fashion Gloves, Church Gloves, Bamboo Gloves, Sport Gloves, Cotillion Gloves, Usher Gloves, Coated Gloves, Cut Resistant Gloves, Grip Gloves, Fancy Gloves, Parade Gloves, Heat Resistant Gloves, Mechanics Gloves, and Electrician Gloves. 
To demonstrate the significance of this number, we have not factored (added) in the customers that migrate to our industrial web site from GO to purchase their industrial and safety gloves. The GO Industrial web site is a completely different web site and we obviously don’t share those metrics since many people follow this Blog – a.k.a industrial espionage – but you can perceive those hits. 
For the skeptics out there, I’ve added a web shot image of our actual metric scale which can be enlarged. 
I doubt there is another glove company in the world that has reached this milestone in less than 9 months. After all, we were the very first global glove company on the Internet since 1996. 
I can’t wait to see how successful the internet shop of our fine fashion glove boutique in St. Thomas, USVI, Olga Gloves, becomes.