Category: White Gloves

2,622 Gloves and counting

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What does this glove number mean to you?
Well, this week, my accounting manager (our numbers person), reminded me that we have over 2,622 Glove models in our warehouse.  I smiled and reminisced about our humble beginnings when we started with a small number of white cotton gloves models over 17 years ago.  Today, we claim to be the largest white glovesource in North America. Maybe the world, but who cares anyway – except me. 
I really doubt “any” glove company has 2,622 glove models on the shelf – available for delivery the same day or the next day. This is important to you, our customer. 
One of my favorite sayings is: “If you cannot find a particular glove at Gloves-Online then it is likely not worth selling or available.”  
Additionally, we are resellers for some of the most respected glove manufacturers on the planet. 
By the way, when I shared this number with our warehouse manager, David, he looked up through our ceiling-high warehouse shelving racks and said, “We are out of space – again.”  
Simply put, we want to be your glove source. After all, we are pretty good at it since we’ve been supplying gloves to thousands of customers since 1996. 

Need some Green Gloves for St. Patrick’s Day?

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If you need some Green Gloves for St. Patrick’s Day it’s still not too late.You will just have to pay a little extra for shipping depending on where you live. 
 
Our Green Flash Gloves are popular this time of year for St. Patrick Day parades and parties.  We carry them in both Men’s and Women’s sizes and I provided links below to make it easy for you to find them rather than search our huge selection of gloves. 
As an FYI, our special search function (yellow box) on our web site will find them too but then you will see each and every green glove we carry which can be overwhelming. 
It is worth mentioning that we also stock parade style gloves in many colors just in case you need something special for Easter. 
P.S. Don’t forget those white gloves either – for Easter Sunday. 
Happy St. Patties Day, the Glove Guru 

It’s the season for White Gloves

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Easter is almost upon us and this is just a reminder to place your order for your white gloves early. 
Every year we see last minute expensive express shipments and by ordering early you can avoid these charges. 
Remember, we carry the largest selection of white gloves available for ladies, gentlemen, and children. 
The following are a few helpful links:
Reminder: Since the winter weather is still menacing us and your local shops may no longer have gloves in stock, you may want to check out some special pricing on our winter gloves – while supplies last. 

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. 

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.

Ansell-Hawkeye Glove bushwhacked by DOD

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Ansell-Hawkeye Glove Company (formerly Hawkeye Glove) closed down last Thursday, May 31st. 
Hawkeye Glove was a primary contractor of gloves for the US Military before Ansell acquired the company in 2008 at a reported price of 10.8 million. The closure affects 22 production workers at the Fort Dodge plant and it could affect many more once it closes its other production operations. 
Management blamed the plant’s closure on Pentagon budget cuts but in theory this type of glove production which is based on cut-and-sewn gloves probably led to its demise. Ansell’s core production expertise is in dipped disposable gloves and condoms and Hawkeye’s expertise was in leather and cotton glove production. 
For me, the writing was on the wall when they stopped making US made Marine Corp white dress gloves for us in 2009. It’s too bad they shuttered the business before letting us know. 

Some glove traditions never change

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And GO Gloves has managed to help with hard-to-find White Gloves for the last 15 years.
As a matter of fact, White Gloves were our first major glove line on our web site back in 1996. (To put that in perspective that was 2 years before Google’s beta version.) Today, our White Glove program remains our largest product line by far and we estimate that we are the largest supplier of white glove in North America.
Besides providing gloves to doormen (see article) around the world, we have many types of white glove styles for any occasion or event. For all age groups, too. Check them out for yourself.
Click on the title of this post to see the “New York Times” article on the Latest Doormen fashion.

Gloves always complete a Holiday costume

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One of our famous customers was kind enough to send us a picture of his children’s Halloween costumes. It wouldn’t be difficult to realize from the picture that he is also the Demo Guru at the leading toy store in the world.

We give his wife a huge ^5 on creating and making the Toy Soldier outfits and selecting our gloves for a finishing touch. We only hope that the DiAmbrosio’s continue the tradition (whatever the theme) and allow us to send them more gloves next year.

My hunch is that our friends at Disney and Universal Studios will be asking me for Mrs. DiAmbrosio’s phone number.

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