What’s with the goofy no-fingertips gloves people are wearing in westerns these days? It’s another stupid 21st century invention grafted onto 19th century characters.
I presume it’s so those 1880ish characters didn’t have to take their gloves off to use their cell phones.
“Mitts” were in use from the mid-1700s. You could sew while keeping most of your hand warm. I wore gloves with the fingers cut off as a typist in the 80s!
I don’t know “why” for westerns. But I’ve heard some do it so that it improves manual dexterity when manipulating objects in cold weather.
Her character in the mini-series has been raped by a man who has syphilis and she bears the child with the disease. The boy lives and she mothers this child until he dies and this makes her an outcast to all British society. She wears the gloves to hide the fact that she has tertiary syphilis herself. Frankly, I found her character strongly Pro-Life and pro-family...