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Dents: Vintage Meets Hi-Tech

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I’ve wanted a pair of leather gloves for years.

A few years ago my Mum bought me a beautiful pair for Christmas. They were green leather with a little flower detail at the wrist and I absolutely loved them. I wore them everywhere for about 3 months, and then I jumped out of the car at a cross roads to pop something in the post box, and forgot they were on my lap, and I never saw them again. I even walked up and down the road hopefully in case someone had left them on a fence or wall for me. But no such luck. It still makes me feel sick to think about it now.

And that, I told myself, is why I am not allowed to have nice things. I simply can’t be trusted.

Since then I have restricted myself to vintage gloves bought for 50p in Charity Shops, and one well worn pair of fingerless gloves that transform into mittens that cost me £1.50 in Sainsburys.

Then someone from Dents got in touch and asked me if I’d like to try a pair of their gloves. I absolutely love Dents, they’re proper gloves, sold in proper glove sizes and the kind of thing I press my nose up against department store windows to stare lovingly at. The company has been around since 1777, so they basically REALLY know what they’re doing when it comes to making gloves.

My Nana used to tell me about going to be fitted for gloves in a glove shop where there were boxes of gloves behind the counter. They would bring you a pair in your size and you would put them on and they would smooth them on to make sure they fitted. It sounded so glamorous and she looked so happy talking about it (that’ll be where my shopping habit comes from then!). Thats what Dents represents to me. It’s old school quality and elegance.

When my gloves arrived I actually did a little squeal when I upwrapped them.

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They were beautifully boxed and wrapped in tissue paper. I was stupidly excited.

The gloves I chose to try out were the perfect blending of vintage and modern. The Touchscreen technology leather gloves are proper leather gloves, silk lined with a button detail at the wrist, but made from a “conductive leather” which mean you can use touch screen phones without having to remove them. It’s like a vintage bloggers dream, right?

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I actually found figuring out my glove size quite daunting. You would think “measure the hand you normally write with at its widest point in inches (excluding the thumb), then round down to the nearest half or whole number” is a relatively simple instruction that even I could follow, but when I found my hand measured 7 3/4″ I immediately completely panicked about the “round down” instruction and thought a 7 1/2 would be too small. The lady at Dents told me to order a 7 1/2, so I did, and of course they fitted like, er, a glove.

Also, that touchscreen technology ACTUALLY WORKS!

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So now I can be one of those annoying people who walks into you while looking at Facebook on busy paths AND have warm hands while I’m doing it!

These particular gloves are not cheap, but the fit, quality and packaging feels worth every penny and they’re the sort of thing you just dream of owning. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that actually not all the Dents gloves were as expensive as I thought they would be, plain suede gloves start at just £24, and at the moment there are some lovely leather gloves on sale for £15.

I think they would make a beautiful gift if you can somehow sneakily measure someones hand. If you have a birthday coming up I recommend adding your glove size and the Dents website to any lists you are casually leaving lying around. The only thing that concerns me is my amazing ability to loose nice things. I’m tempted to run a bit of elastic down the neck of my coat so I can keep these attached to me at all times as I think if I lost them I would be even more distraught that I was when I lost my last pair of beautiful leather gloves.

Take a peek at the Dents website, they also do mens gloves, handbags, hats, and a variety of pretty things.

Comments

36 responses to “Dents: Vintage Meets Hi-Tech”

  1. vintagefrills avatar
    vintagefrills

    They really are very lovely gloves, and perfect for those of us who can never put our phones down! I’d love to own a beautiful pair of leather gloves but I think I’d need mitten minders or something as I’m forever losing gloves and mittens and can’t be trusted with special ones!

  2. Helen avatar
    Helen

    I ADORE Dents! I’ve got a pair of their leather cashmere-lined ones – I think they’re the Isabelle gloves. I did wonder about paying that much for them but I think I got them in a sale anyway, and they’ve lasted me about 5 years or more. They haven’t worn out at all and are so warm! My hands don’t get as chapped during cold, wet weather when I wear them (compared to wearing woollen ones that get wet). The leather is beautiful, buttery-soft gorgeousness and the cashmere inside is delicious.

    What I also rather like about them is that they fit me – just as I struggle to find “women’s” shoes to fit my apparently enormous hooves, I find “women’s” gloves just as much of a chore. But the Dents fit fine! And
    I bought him indoors a pair of Dents driving glove for Christmas! Keeping that a secret was a bit of a challenge. “Erm, just out of interest, can I measure your hand?” (not the strangest thing I’ve ever asked, so I got away with it).

    The only problem is using a touchscreen – it’s very annoying when I’m walking about to get a phone call and then hurriedly remove my glove to pick up the call. Well, swipe the call! So it’s good to know that Dents are addressing this problem of modern life. 😉

    1. Gemma avatar
      Gemma

      That’s what drew me too them! So many times trying to keep my hands warm AND use my phone!

  3. pippi hepburn avatar
    pippi hepburn

    These gloves look so beautiful on you. I may be a leather glove girl one day again, but now I am in a mitten mode. 2 snow storms already in New Jersey, have helped push that decision. I love also that it forces me to not answer the phone or look at my cell phone and just take in the day when I am out and about. But, I do love your Dents and the buttons on the side are so elegant!

  4. vintagemunchkin avatar
    vintagemunchkin

    They do look lovely!

  5. Mim avatar
    Mim

    I love Dents. Don’t have any gloves, but found a pristine leather Dents bag in a charity shop for £6!

    I’m forever doing exactly the same thing with my gloves. One Christmas my husband gave me a glove string he’d made himself – a long bit of cord to go through my coat, with a bulldog clip on either end for gloves. Sarky sod! (It has never been used, needless to say.)

  6. marian avatar
    marian

    very cute look very good gloves

  7. Rakel Campos (@LovelyStyleBlog) avatar
    Rakel Campos (@LovelyStyleBlog)

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