Gloves Are Ugly

by Charles Mudede Guasor/gettyimages.com
Now that is cold in Seattle, and there is snow on the ground, and lots of ice on the street, it is a good time for the fact of the ugliness of gloves to be stated and not be doubted. A world without them would aesthetically be better. This garment is to the eyes what barking dogs are to the ears. The latter ruins the richness of the call, which in human and bird song achieves its highest forms of beauty. The latter ruins the hands, which for the human are