A truly international glove shop….

Since our new Glove Boutique (Olga Gloves) is located at the famous international Caribbean island destination of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, we thought we better provide our foreign customers a warm welcome in their language.

On our new entry sign, we narrowed the word “Gloves” down to 13 language translations – we didn’t have room for more – and headlined it with our now famous slogan – “We Glove You!” in English.

If anyone can guess the languages we selected, we might have an award for you. 

You can click on the image to enlarge it if needed.

We now Glove you in St. Thomas USVI, too!

We finally opened our new Glove Boutique on St. Thomas days before Christmas and it's been High 5's everyday since.

If you happen to be on the island during a cruise or on vacation, make sure to look us up. We're located in the world famous Palm Passage which runs between the waterfront and Main Street.

Stay tuned for information about our Grand Opening in February.

Winter Cell Phone Gloves remain a top seller for the Holidays…

We were the first to introduce cell phone gloves back in 2008 and we ran out of gloves before Christmas. Each year since we doubled our stock and we continued to run out of stock.

Already this year we surpassed last year’s sales. We’ve added new lines like ISOTONER to maintain a good supply and we also expanded our touch-screen models due to the popularity of tablets.

Keep in mind that there are two types of cell-phone gloves. One version has removable fingertip and thumb tops (shown above) which can be used with Blackberry type keyboards and the other versions are exclusive to touch-screens and contain conductive fibers on the finger tips (shown below). The models with removable fingertip tops can be used with both types of keyboard and touch-screen devices.

My point!  Don’t wait to buy cell phone gloves as a gift or stocking stuffer. They will sell out again even though we have the largest selection and largest inventory. 

Happy Thanksgiving, The Glove Guru 

Who said the glove business is boring?

From time to time I do like to add an unusual or fun post and this seemed appropriate before the holidays.

Yes, this is a wedding dress made from rubber gloves. I must admit that this is a first – for me anyway – and the artist is either incredibly creative or just loves gloves like me.

Wedding dresses are renowned to be very pricey but if you knew how expensive disposal rubber gloves are these days, this dress would obviously be over the top for most buyers.

However, if anyone out there needs disposable gloves (or any gloves for that matter) for a new outfit or artistic idea, please let me know. We have many glove types and many glove colors. For example – we have flesh colors for that nude look; purple for a fun look; and even black for those formal events. I’m sure we can make you a deal.

(Click on the images to enlarge them) 

We exported some of our Fashion Glove savvy to St. Thomas – US Virgin Islands

Finally, after years of planning, we are opening our first retail luxury glove boutique on St. Thomas – US Virgin Islands. The new duty-free shop will feature our exclusive fine fashion Italian leather gloves under the brand called, Olga Gloves.  The shop will also offer other fine fashion gloves.

Olga Gloves is a new venture but not a new experience. We are simply using our half-century of retail glove knowledge to assist shoppers and tourists who visit St. Thomas.

For you industrial glovers reading this, now is the chance to take a vacation and splurge for some nice winter gloves for your family and friends.

Stay tuned for up-dates on the shop. 

Known by the company we keep – ISOTONER Gloves

As the saying goes, you’re always known for the company you keep.

Over the years our customers requested we stock ISOTONERgloves.

Since GO Gloves is customer driven and a one-stop shop for great gloves, this year we are proud to announce that we are now an authorized ISOTONER glove retailer. We will add each model as they hit our warehouse – just in time for holiday sales.

As you can expect, we declined to stock the TOTES/ISOTONER line of slippers and boots. After all, we are just glove experts.

The number #1 Glove QR Code in the world

I think this is a neat tool for people who need gloves of all types.

GO Greens® Bamboo Gloves – Lightweight but heavy.

We just received our latest shipment of our popular GO Greens^® Bamboo Gloves and things have certainly changed.

 

As many of you already know, the GO Greens Bamboo Gloves were designed to be the best light weight general utility coated work glove on the market. And, be the only environmental friendly work glove, too boot. Mission accomplished.

What we didn’t anticipate is that our warehouse manager had to recruit our office staff to help unload 4 tons of the GO Greens last week.

So much for light weight work gloves. 

Merry Christmas from the Glove Guru

All of the Santa’s across the country are stocked up with White Gloves and our staff is doing their best to fill their sleighs with those glove stocking stuffers.

Actually, the local Santa came by last week to make sure all was going well. He needed a fresh supply of gloves and it always great to see him again.

Merry Christmas

Winter Gloves are hot!

Gloves have always been the ideal stocking stuffer. After all, it is Winter.

This season our glove sales have been exceptional again. Maybe it’s the weather; maybe the economy is improving but one thing is for real; Winter Gloves are HOT! In fact, we are running out of models well before previous years.

Here’s a few links to help you find the perfect winter glove or gift. And remember, this is the last week for Standard Shipping.

Winter Gloves; Texting Gloves; Children’s Gloves; Knit Gloves; Leather Gloves; Men’s Gloves; Mittens;  Waterproof Gloves; and Woman's Gloves. .

Happy Holidays, The Glove Guru

Winter Survival Gloves: Texting Gloves

We are going into our 3^rd Winter selling season with the Freehand Gloves  and they are simply genius. You well know that taking your gloves off to text while outside is pure torture – and totally unnecessary.

That’s why Freehands gloves are perfect. You can choose from several models including leather and the gloves feature finger caps on your index finger and thumb, which you can flip back when your need to access your phone.

Your can always consider convertible mittens but the Freehands Gloves are more functional for texting while using your smart phone.

Why not check out our Winter Gloves while your browsing.

GO Glove Elves working overtime for parade glove orders!

It’s that time of year at Gloves-Online and we have been frantically shipping orders to meet the demands for parade gloves for parade units during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.

We wish all of you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday.

Kidskins™ Gloves – Give Kids a grip! And power!

Late last year, two (2) budding entrepreneurs, an Engineer and a Lawyer, came to me with an idea about new gloves for kids. No joke!  They wanted to protect their kid’s hands from blisters and provide better grip while playing on monkey bars.

After a year of R&D and testing, we finally reached their goals by developing and making new gloves called, Kidskins™ Gloves.

These nifty gloves give little hands extra gripping power. The stretchable form-fitting, high grip glove design reduces the likelihood for blisters. They even have a cute feature which provides for removable and interchangeable “Rip-Tags” custom labels.

The present colorful models come in three (3) Girl’s sizes. Due to demand, Boy’s models are on the way. Note to Mom’s – They're Washable, too!

Glove guys know best…

This week I had the pleasure to meet another Glove Guru who represents one of the best glove companies in the world. (No pun intended for those in the know)

As with any good glove business guy who wants to establish a rapport, he followed up with an e-mail (nice touch).

I found it interesting that his e-mail signature contained some very useful information.

FACT: Each hand contains: 29 major and minor bones, 29 major joints, at least 123 named ligaments, 34 muscles which move the fingers and thumb, 48 nerves and 30 named arteries. Those facts put a whole new perspective on what our products are actually protecting…

I’ve since invited him for lunch when he is in the area again and I’ll make sure he adds cut protection and heat protection issues to his agenda. He knows best, but he is also helping raising the bar with hand protection issues.

In the meantime, you can check out our Glove University. We call it GO U. 

Six Degrees of Hand Vibration

Protecting our hands from vibrations is important since it causes HAVS (Hand – Arm Vibration Syndrome).

I’ve discussed this before and a recent article in OHS (Occupational Health and Safety) discusses some solutions.(You can click on the title of this post to go to the article)

We also offer special Anti-Vibration Gloves.

GO Gloves receives top award from Amazon.com

I am very pleased to announce that last Friday the 29th; GO Gloves received the prestigious award as a “Top Holiday Seller in 2009” from the management of Amazon.com.

The award certificate states that we were honored for outstanding performance on Amazon.com over the 2009 Holiday Season. We were praised for providing an exceptional shopping experience for Amazon customers and thanked us for our hard work and dedication.

Additionally, GO Gloves ranked among the top of all Amazon Sellers over the 2009 season on the basis of net sales, and customer satisfaction metrics. We also received the highest marks (in other words A+) over this period.

Amazon isn’t the only one happy with our holiday gloves sales. They should have seen what our staff accomplished from our own web site shipping about 2,000 glove orders per day. (Enlarge image on the right for a look at our shipping dock for a typical 1st of 2 daily outbound shipments during December)

Some glove traditions never change

And GO Gloves has managed to help with hard-to-find White Gloves for the last 15 years.

As a matter of fact, White Gloves were our first major glove line on our web site back in 1996. (To put that in perspective that was 2 years before Google’s beta version.) Today, our White Glove program remains our largest product line by far and we estimate that we are the largest supplier of white glove in North America.

Besides providing gloves to doormen (see article) around the world, we have many types of white glove styles for any occasion or event. For all age groups, too. Check them out for yourself.

Click on the title of this post to see the “New York Times” article on the Latest Doormen fashion.

Biodegradable plastics and bamboo are hot trends for gloves, too.

This week Design Week featured and article about biodegradable plastics and bamboo being hot trends.

With our biodegradable packaging initiative and our GO Greens® Bamboo Gloves introduction in 2009 tells me we are headed in the right direction for the next decade. I hope you agree.

Click on the title of this post to see the article.

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Christmas was all about the love of Gloves

I’m sorry for my absence here but all I can say is WOW. Our Holiday sales were overwhelming and we literally worked around the clock through December processing glove orders. We thank all of you for your support and your business. 

FYI: Demand for our Freehands cell-phone gloves was amazing and we completely depleted the manufacturer’s inventory.

Another success story was the Caiman Deerskin Gloves. (pictured) Besides making them in Men’s, Women’s, and children sizes, they are popular due to their warmth and comfort. My hat goes off to the guys at Caiman since they allow us to sell them to you at a great price, too. You also need to check out the other Caiman glove models.

I could say more but I’m just happy to be back here and feel fortunate and grateful for your support.

In my next posts, I’m thinking about talking about trends I’m seeing in glove technology and glove products. Looks to me like another interesting year in Gloves.

Happy New Year, The Glove Guru

Pink Glove Dance for Cancer Awareness

It is amazing how many friends and colleagues sent me this You-Tube video featuring employees of the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. I’m not sure why but I guess I better know about this glove stuff, too. It’s a very fun-filled video and well done.
Although we don’t currently carry pink disposable gloves, I think I better look into them.

Click on the title of this post to link to the video.

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Gloves – The ideal stocking stuffer

We’ve decked our halls with lots of gloves ready for the rush to find great gifts for your loved ones, friends, the delivery man and even the kids.

We have the finest in leather gloves; fur lined gloves, cell phone gloves; skiing gloves, and many types of winter and winter waterproof gloves. We even have a huge inventory of work gloves.

Don’t wait to try and find good gloves at your local department store, we have what they no longer stock and sell.  And, the best thing besides our quality is our prices.

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Two gloves fetched $670,000 last week.

That’s not a typo in the headline but it does confirm to me that I am in the right business. I just wish I had my hands in the deals.

The first was Michael Jackson’s flashy glove he wore during his performance at the 1983 Motown 25 (shown). It sold for $420,000 to a buyer in Hong Kong, China. I sure wish I thought of putting rhinestone sequins on a store bought glove.

The other was a NASA award of $250,000 for developing a more flexible space glove for use by astronauts. This is the second year in a row that Peter Homer in Maine won. I made a post here last year about his first space glove achievement.

Several years ago I helped a NASA prime contractor develop glove liners but I think I might be better off hooking up with Mr. Homer. Maybe I’ll even get luckier for the bigger prize and have a new stage performer find me. The bottom line is that I think NASA got a deal looking at the numbers and the gloves.

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Should you wear a golf glove?

Personally, I think they are more of a fashion statement and I develop, design, make, sell, and distribute gloves. Besides, I think good golf grips are a better option. Just like a good grip on a carpenters hammer.

What's more, we would have to stock golf gloves like fingerless for ladies with nails, men’s, men’s winter, women’s, women’s winter, juniors, all in either left hand or right hand, 6+ sizes, 31 colors, 15 Brands, and so forth and all for a $10 glove.

I don’t think my accountants would like the idea either. So for all of you that always ask me if we sell golf gloves, you get the idea now. I’m sticking with what we do best: Offer gloves that people need and wear.

Click on the title to see the post by Frank Thomas on the Golf Channel web site. He’s also the inventor of the graphite shaft.

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Gloves for your I-Phone or Cell Phone

Thinking of an ideal, simple Christmas Gift for everyone on your list? Then consider the Freehands Gloves.

GO Gloves was the first to offer these last year and they were one of our #1 selling glove and great stocking stuffer.

This year we are offering them in 6 amazing models. But don’t wait, they will sell out quickly.

Click on the title of this post to go to the Freehands line-up. You can also click on the image to enlarge it.

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One word about Winter Gloves….

WATERPROOF!

Based on recent phone calls, I feel obliged to repeat my post from last year below:

It amazes me that most shoppers looking for a real winter glove fail to purchase Waterproof gloves. I’m not talking about fine fashion lined leather gloves; I’m referring to the winter gloves you wear during outdoor activities such as shoveling snow, sledding, skiing, or hiking. The same applies to winter construction and work gloves.

Thermal lined gloves are a must have and will keep you warm but once the lining becomes wet, your hands will freeze. Regarding linings look for a branded lining like Gore-Tex or HeatKeep just to name a few. A branded lining on the label generally indicates that the manufacturer has made an extra effort to provide warmth. You should also look for a knit wrist or a wrist closure to keep out snow, rain and wind. Lastly, make sure the gloves are WATERPROOF or they will not be cold proof.

Tip: Check out the Youngstown Winter Waterproof Gloves (Pictured). These are by far our #1 selling winter gloves every year since they were first introduced.

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Gloves always complete a Holiday costume

One of our famous customers was kind enough to send us a picture of his children’s Halloween costumes. It wouldn’t be difficult to realize from the picture that he is also the Demo Guru at the leading toy store in the world.

We give his wife a huge ^5 on creating and making the Toy Soldier outfits and selecting our gloves for a finishing touch. We only hope that the DiAmbrosio’s continue the tradition (whatever the theme) and allow us to send them more gloves next year.

My hunch is that our friends at Disney and Universal Studios will be asking me for Mrs. DiAmbrosio’s phone number.

Click on the image to enlarge it.

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Advice on Cotillion Gloves

It’s that time of year when we get inundated with requests for advice on white cotillion gloves.

Keeping it simple is our best advice when selecting cotillion gloves but a few tend to want only finest gloves as a fashion statement so we can even help if that’s your desire.

A good choice, also recommended by our friends at the National League of Junior Cotillions, is our Full Fashion Nylon Glove models. These are cost effective for group purchase and the two sizes are very size forgiving since they stretch. They will even fit the 12 year olds.

For those of you looking for something different, we even have a shopping area exclusive to Cotillion Gloves.

As always, let us know if you need any help.

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Design and personalize your own High Performance Ski Gloves

GO Gloves (www.gloves-online.com) has done it again by offering a new program where you can design and personalize your own Grandoe Tundra Ski Gloves online.

These ski gloves are the premier winter sport gloves from Grandoe, made by fifth generation glove makers for more than a century.

You can select from over 1 million color combination's, color match your ski outfit, never loose your gloves again with ID personalization, and even personalize your gloves with your own name, your nickname or your company name.

Also, you will receive a FREE double sided fleece embroidered travel and storage bag with each order as a thank you.

Order them by December 1^st for Christmas delivery.

Order online today by clicking on the title of this post.

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Gloves are going green

A recent e-zine by Industrial Safety Hygiene News discusses one of my favorite topics. Yours truly was featured in the interview section. This feature was sponsored by the IGA (The International Glove Association).

Click on the title to read the article.

You can see our own work with our GO Greens, too.

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The Glove Guru: Glove Cut Resistant Symbol – EN388

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