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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Current Obsession: Leather "Cabaret" Gloves

Long leather gloves made a major comeback on the runways in 2007 [Burberry Prorsum was a huge player in this resurgence], and they are still going strong...though I would argue they are timeless classics, anyway! I don't know why I didn't try the look out earlier -- I think it was because I was going through an uber-casual phase and felt they were a bit dramatic at the time. Well, that has passed and I'm completely enamored by the idea of wearing a 3/4 sleeve coat with a pair of these fabulous cabaret-inspired gloves, ala 1930's Berlin and Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus: