Cloth gloves can keep your hands warm in winter, and they're breathable in summer, but they're really only useful as gifts. They look good, but they aren't great for heavy-duty gardening.

"Don't you need white gloves to handle that document?" a client asked recently when he visited our office. These vaunted protectors of our historical legacy, pieces of cloth that stand between our ...

And whatever their associations with cleanliness, cotton gloves attract dirt. They also tend to make hands sweat, generating moisture that can damage a page. Rubber gloves, ...

Winter gloves can be as germy as hands, harboring everything from e-coli to the flu to the cold virus. On top of that, people rarely, if ever, wash their gloves. Leslie Reichert, the Cleaning ...