Gloves are clothing or protective equipment that wraps the hands. Functions include: keeping hands warm, decoration, religious use, protecting hands from injury, isolating hands, special gloves are also sports equipment.

Classification of gloves

According to finger shape

Finger gloves: each has only 5 separate long bags of fingers;
Three-finger gloves: separate thumb and index finger, and connect the other 3 fingers together.
Mittens: In Northeast China, it is called hand boring. The thumb is separated and the remaining 4 fingers are connected together.
Straight gloves: 5 fingers connected together.
Half-finger gloves: each finger is not closed, only the first section is covered.
Fingerless gloves: There is no finger part, opening at the heel.

The fewer fingers that are separated, the better the heat preservation effect on the fingers, but at the same time it limits the movement of the hands. In addition to the decoration of the half-finger and fingerless gloves, the flexibility of the fingers of the score finger gloves has also increased.

Protective gloves for gardening
By purpose
Cold-proof gloves: generally made of cloth, cloth clip cotton, wool knitting, felt, leather and other materials.
Cooking gloves: Used in the kitchen, the structure is similar to cold-proof gloves, used for heat insulation or isolation of bacteria.
Dress gloves (English: Evening_glove): mainly for decorative purposes, usually made of silk, yarn, satin and other delicate and comfortable materials. Women are commonly found in western-style evening dresses, wedding dresses, and concierge clothing. Female dress gloves can be divided into "wrist length", "middle length", "elbow length" and "elbow length" according to their length. "Long length" and "shoulder length". Men generally only wear short gloves that reach the wrist.
Cotton gloves: Wear gloves to protect your hands and avoid stains during work. For example, when welding, installing barbed wire, using a chainsaw, working with electricity, using harmful chemicals and harmful biological products. However, some rotary machines such as drilling machines are used. In order to prevent hands from being caught in the machine and injured, do not wear gloves.
Medical gloves: When doctors, nurses, and pharmacists perform examinations on patients, they often wear sealed medical gloves for hygiene. They are made of latex, polyvinyl chloride nitrile rubber and other synthetic materials.
Driving gloves: The driver sometimes wears special gloves to increase friction and stabilize the steering wheel of the car. In Japan, employees of the public transportation industry inherited the tradition of wearing white gloves after the Meiji Restoration and wearing white gloves when working.
Sports use: baseball gloves, boxing gloves, football goalkeeper gloves, etc.
BDSM use: gloves made of leather or latex.
War use: usually made of metal, which can be found in full or half metal armor.