Welcome to the page for lovers, collectors and students of that remarkable item of clothing known as the OPERA GLOVE. Here, you will find many galleries of high-quality images, historical information and commentary, and links to vendors of opera gloves and other types of evening gloves. I hope this page will become a primary resource on the Web for those who love these wonderful gloves and the women who wear them. The opera glove has been recognized for well over a century as one of the foremost symbols of feminine elegance and sensuality. The very sight of a kidskin, suede, satin or lame glove embracing the hand and arm of a woman sends a powerful conscious and subconscious signal that the wearer is a woman of style, elegance, passion, power and sexuality. Ever since over-the-elbow gloves were first widely worn by women during the Regency and Napoleonic era at the beginning of the 19th century, and especially since "The Divine Sarah", Sarah Bernhardt, introduced the mousquetaire to America in the 1870s, the opera glove, on the arms of beautiful women, has been reducing male viewers to puddles of mush.     My mother Troye (at center) and godmother Lyn in white opera gloves, 1960     With the kind assistance of the webmasters of many of the Web's premier sites devoted to the classic actresses of Hollywood - you will find links to their sites on my galleries and links pages - I have amassed a collection of tens of thousands of images of such luminaries as Audrey Hepburn, Gina Lollobrigida, Marilyn Monroe, Vivien Leigh, Jayne Mansfield, Natalie Wood, Joan Collins, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth, Morgan Fairchild, Loni Anderson, Pamela Anderson Lee, Shannen Doherty, Deborah Duchene, Phoebe Cates, Famke Janssen, Kate Winslett, Kay Kendall, Carmen Electra, Samantha Fox, Billie Burke, Yvonne De Carlo, Carole Landis, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jane Wyman, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard, Stephanie Beacham, and many, many others wearing - what else? - opera gloves and other long gloves! You will also find extensive historical, etiquette and collecting information, as well as links to the world's leading manufacturers and vendors of gloves.   Let this site be your guide to the magic that is the opera glove!       Please help keep For the Love of Opera Gloves growing, vibrant and free! Contributions are completely anonymous and may be made in any amount from $1.00 (one dollar) on up. Your contributions go to bandwidth, research, hardware and everything else needed to keep For the Love of Opera Gloves going. Thank you!! You can also make a fast, free and secure donation to support For the Love of Opera Gloves via PayPal, the Web's foremost online payment service: FEATURES OF FOR THE LOVE OF OPERA GLOVES Welcome to the Web's first and foremost opera-glove resource! Nowhere else will you find gathered such an archive of imagery and discussion concerning the classic opera glove, in all its forms and variants! WHAT'S NEW AT FOR THE LOVE OF OPERA GLOVES 14 AUGUST 2007 - Sorry for another long delay between updates! I blame it on this weather - 100-degree heat and humidity is just not conducive to thinking about opera gloves. Anyway, here's the latest "Cosplayers in Gloves" updates; nearly 500 new pictures from Anime Mid-Atlantic (June 2007) and Otakon (July 2007)! NOTICE TO ALL WEB-BASED PINUP/GLAMOUR MODELS, CLASSIC-BURLESQUE-REVIVAL PERFORMERS, ETC.: If you wear opera gloves a lot in your line of work, or just love opera gloves, For the Love of Opera Gloves wants YOU for our website! Read the notice to find out how you can have a gallery of your best opera-glove images posted here! Second important notice: to all visitors looking for Climax Fashions: For the Love of Opera Gloves has no connection with Climax Fashions, including their trademarked company name. We apologize for any confusion and suggest that if you came here looking for Climax Fashions, we recommend that you visit their website at Climax Fashions. Third important notice: As of 10/12/03, HOTLINKING OF IMAGES FROM THIS WEBSITE IS NOT ALLOWED! ("Hotlinking", in this case, is the practice of putting up text links to a specific image on a website from another site, and should not be confused with regular linking of sites to sites or whole page URL's.) This practice eats up bandwidth that I have to pay for. I ask that if you would like to use images from this site on your own site, that you please download them directly and then upload them to your own site instead of freeloading on my bandwidth allowance. Also, I would be appreciative if you would ask first before using images; some of them have been given to me by the proprietors of other sites and should _not_ be used anywhere else without their express consent. Thank you for your cooperation! IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING COPYRIGHT AND IMAGES FROM OTHER SITES: Webmasters/webmistresses of other sites, please read the copyright page before contacting this site's webmaster. If you believe that your image(s) have been improperly used, please let me know and we will try to resolve the situation in a mutually satisfactory fashion. We try to give credit where credit is due but with such a large site as this it's easy to overlook things. Everyone who would like to get in touch with their favorite stars, please take notice: For the Love of Opera Gloves has no - repeat, no - official connection whatever with any of the celebrities presented on this site. We do not have mailing addresses for anyone, cannot provide such addresses, and cannot forward snail mail or e-mail. Site visitors who would like to help support For the Love of Opera Gloves now have two online options - they can contribute via the Amazon Honor System, or PayPal! Click on the PayPal button or the Amazon.com paybox to help For the Love of Opera Gloves! (Direct donations via snail mail are also welcome; please email me for details if you would like to help out in this way. Please also see my message to visitors concerning the expenses it requires to run this site and how you can help.) We've joined the blogger revolution! For the Love of Opera Gloves announces the creation of a brand new web log ("blog"), The Opera Glove Blog. Click on this link to keep up with the webmaster's commentary on his site, opera gloves, fashion in general and anything else that pops into his mind! For the Love of Opera Gloves would like to thank Dennis, one of our regular visitors, for his extensive contributions from his documentary collection, which you will be seeing a great deal of in future updates! In this update, you will find hundreds of vidcaps of rare opera-glove movie and TV scenes from his collection, with many more soon to come! P.S. Don't forget to visit the Poster Store! P.P.S. New HTML fragment available for Gloves Webring members at The Gloves Webring Homepage! ALSO NEW AT FOR THE LOVE OF OPERA GLOVES: For The Love of Opera Gloves' Online Store - Get your opera-gloved celebrity memorabilia here! Mugs, mousepads, tote bags, coasters - coming soon, T-shirts! New images and items every week! Posters of opera-gloved celebs at AllPosters.com - NEW posters added 5/31/01! NEW 5/31/01 - Opera-glove posters from Allwall.com now available at The Poster Store, Page 2! Your Source for your Wall Search: Posters of opera-gloved fashion and celebrities at AllWall.com! Do YOU want to be featured in For the Love of Opera Gloves? Click here to find out how! The complete index of everything that For the Love of Opera Gloves has to offer can be found on this page: The General Index of For the Love of Opera Gloves or here, at our brand-new alphabetical,"back-of-the-book" index: The Alphabetical Index of For the Love of Opea Gloves NEW 6/25 - From Freefind.com, powerful indexing for this website. Just type in whatever you're looking for (remember to set the radio button to "search this site" in order to conduct a search of this site only): Search this site or the web powered by FreeFind   Site search Web search Search: All Products Books Popular Music Music Downloads Classical Music DVD VHS Apparel Toys Baby Computers Computer & Video Games Electronics Camera & Photo Software Tools & Hardware Magazines Sporting Goods Outdoor Living Kitchen & Housewares Jewelry & Watches Gourmet Food Health/Personal Care Cell Phones & Service Outlet Keywords: Buy books and movies on great opera-gloved actresses and great opera-glove fashions at Amazon.com! Buy it Today! Buy this item and other opera-related merchandise and other fine paper products at Galison.com! Also, every time you visit, you should check this page: What's New at For the Love of Opera Gloves! to check on what's been added or changed at the site since your last visit! I endeavor to update this site at least weekly, and more often if I can manage it. I have a very busy schedule in Real Life (tm) however, so I beg your indulgence for any delays! Vote for me in The Pin-up List For the Love of Opera Gloves features (as of 13 February 2005) tens of thousands of video captures of scenes featuring opera gloves from nearly 125 movies and television programs. To jump directly to a vidcap gallery in which you're interested, as well as to view a list of all known (known to me, anyway) movies with significant opera-glove scenes, go here: Opera Gloves in the Movies 13 February 2003 - NOTE: Please note that this particular index is not at present up-to-date, but will soon be updated. You may visit the Video Capture Index of For the Love of Opera Gloves for a complete pull-down menu of all video capture still galleries currently available on the site. For the Love of Opera Gloves is the home of the Gloves Webring, a new Webring dedicated to bringing together all pages owned by vendors and lovers of gloves. Visit: The Gloves Webring Home Page Visit the Mousquetaire Journal for daily (or whenever there's news) reports on what's going on at For the Love of Opera Gloves, daily samples from the sites, and whatever else your humble webmaster wants to rant about. :) Visit my message board, where you can discuss opera gloves, check the latest site announcements and find links to new sites: The Opera Glove Message Board 30 JANUARY 2005 - IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! A brand-new message board, using the latest PHP technology and free of ads, is now available at: The New Opera Glove Message Board If the message board format doesn't suit you, come and join the Opera Gloves Mailing List! (Now at Yahoo! Groups) Subscribe to operagloves Powered by groups.yahoo.com Would you like a free email account with "operagloves" in the address? Click here or on the button below to get your free "yournamehere@operagloves.zzn.com" address at: http://operagloves.zzn.com Thanks to Lea of Xoom/NBCi's tech support staff for the great new title graphic and kid leather background! Let me know what you think... CONTACT INFORMATION I can be contacted at webmaster@operagloves.com (which is the new main contact address for this site as of 27 May 2001), jadmirel@earthlink.net or joea64@yahoo.com. (Please note that inquiries related to the website should be addressed first to the operagloves.com address; I get large amounts of other mail through the Yahoo! and Earthlink mailboxes.) New images, or links to new images, should be submitted to newimages@operagloves.com. Questions and comments on the site can also be posted at the Opera Glove Message Board. Please feel free to write if you have information, images or links to contribute! Don't forget to sign the Opera Glove Lover's Guestbook, too - just look below in the counter graphic and follow the link - it's easy!! Please sign my guestbook! Your comments are VERY much appreciated! Read my Dreambook! Sign my Dreambook! ATTENTION WEBMASTERS: If your site deals with high fashion, historical fashion, or great classic or modern actresses or other celebrities who wore, or wear, long gloves, or if you are a glove manufacturer or vendor, I want to link to your site and I want you to link to my site; email me! Please link through this page, http://www.operagloves.com/glovmain.html. The following banners are available for your use, if you wish; I will be happy to set up banners on my own links page (providing, of course, that the graphics are small and quick-loading): -or- -or- -or- -or- ATTENTION VISITORS: Again, PLEASE give me feedback on the site, by email, by signing the guestbook below, or by posting to the message board via the link above. I cannot effectively meet the wishes of my visitors, nor can I maintain the site effectively, unless I know what people want and what problems they may find with the HTML or other things while visiting. Thank you for your assistance! NOTE: This site will NOT - ever - post hard-core pornographic material, so don't bother to ask for it. Scantily-clad ladies in gloves, or ladies in their lingerie and gloves, are, however, a whole different kettle of fish...

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