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Look carefully at the first (shortest) pair on the left. The lines on the back are only on the back of the HAND, which means that this pair only reaches just past the wrist.

2. The thumbs are folded back, which makes the glove look longer and narrower than it actually is.

3. These gloves are made of very thin kid (goatskin) leather, which is slightly stretchy. Think about the way a knit sweater stretches. If you stretch it in one direction, it gets shorter in the other direction.

4. Having worn these types of gloves, I can confirm: as you stretch a new pair of kid leather gloves to fit over your hand and arm (a tight, close fit was fashionable AND gives you more finger dexterity), they WILL get shorter in proportion to width!

5. During this period, there was a fad for long gloves worn scrunched up on the arm, so if you wanted that effect, you'd need extra length to accommodate for the scrunch!

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