Capitol Hill's Men's Gloves Gap

Last night was colder than we expected--damn you, cold, wet fog!--and just after the sun went down, we realized we should have brought gloves if we were going to be biking around. We were down around the Pike/Pine corridor, navigating between a Cap to the Hill meetup at Moe Bar, a "Save Newspapers?" confab at Office Nomads, and Marat/Sade at Balagan Theatre, so we stopped in at the Walgreen's at Broadway and Pine. They had Magic Gloves for Women for $1.99. No men's gloves, and while our hands are...not overly large...we didn't dig the color palette. So we walked over to the Bartell Drugs at Pike. Same Magic Gloves, but also Isotoner for Women. No men's gloves. Not a single pair. Shame on you, druggists of Pike/Pine. We waggle our chapped, aching finger at you.

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By MvB in Miscellaneous on January 23, 2009 10:15 AM

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Tom

I love the Magic Stretch gloves! You may need to cut the finger tips off if you've mutant long fingers. But the price and colors can't be beat! And they make good liners under real gloves if needed.

Troy Morris

Blue is very manly. Even pale, it means you've been bled nearly dry-- presumably in a fight to the death with a robot or giant.

Snowflakes symbolize your ability to handle the freeze.

MvB

I almost went with the pale blue ones with little snowflakes--and in retrospect, at $1.99, I have no idea why I didn't. That could've been a hot new look.