Modern life has made one particular essential winter accessory a frustrating addition to our seasonal wardrobe. Though there are gloves on the market equipped with special touch-screen sensitive tips, they’re often on the cheaper side in terms of both material and construction – and most importantly, aren’t very chic.
Evidence of humans wearing protective garments over their hands during bitter winters has been found on cave paintings, which suggest that early Homo sapiens wore simple mittens during the Ice Age. Wearing gloves as a demonstration of status or wealth, however, dates all the way back to the ancient Egyptians. The oldest existing gloves were found in Tutankhamun’s Egyptian tomb in 1922.
