Annoyances in catalog shopping

[cherydactyl]

I'm not that large. Really. Okay, I could stand to loose 10-15 pounds, so could many people. But what has that got to do with glove sizes?

I recently bought a really nice dress coat from Lands' End. They had my size for that; it's not even the biggest size of the regular size range (non-plus-size). It's lovely and warm, a camel colored wool walking coat.

I also ordered some gloves. Beautiful plum purple lambskin leather gloves lined with cashmere, the most expensive gloves I have ever bought. In size L. They are too freaking small. I have long fingers, which I have known for a long time, but even discounting that, they are really tight around my fingers. I called LE up and they don't make these gloves in XL. I am SOL. I suppose it saved me from buying the matching cashmere baby cable scarf and hat (which would have been a little over $100 together), but I still need good, warm dress gloves, long and large enough to fit my long-fingered, not-so-small hands.

Comments

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Wilson Leather (at Briarworld) has some nice leather dress gloves lined in cashmere (though I didn't see lavender last year). I got mine when they were having a buy-one-get-one-half-off sale last fall (right about now, in fact) so in the end, Bruce got a pair or very nice leather gloves for work and I got these for the price one pair would have been.

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

I am pretty sure that Wilson's closed up shop earlier this year. I think where they used to be is now the 2nd location of Tree Town Toys, though I haven't been by to see.

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

IME, leather gloves stretch quite a lot, so you might not want to write those ones off if they're long enough but just tight in the fingers. (I have a pair that are too big for me, because i bought them to fit my fingers and they are too long, and then they stretched and are too big around too.)

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

I thought of that, but they are also not long enough. More's the pity.