Koblet rode with leather gloves...but that was in the 50s.
http://italiancyclingjournal.blogspot.com/
Angel
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Jon Spangler <jonswriter@att.net> wrote:
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> Jeff, Angel, and all,
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> These Dromartis may be very nice gloves but aren't they off-topic?
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> They do not look like anything I ever saw in a bike shop during the 1960s
> or 1970s....
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> Jon Spangler
> highly skeptical of any cycling gloves priced over $35 regardless of the
> vintage - and
> suspecting fraud or extortion at over $100/pair - in Alameda, CA USA
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> Message: 14
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 19:08:48 -0000
> From: "John Purser" <john.purser@btconnect.com>
> Subject: [CR] The Dromarti 'red hand gang'.
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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> British cyclists, notable for their economic ways would probably buy just
> one pair for the Club, all wear them for one day to get their hands
> 'redded', then it would look like they had all spent $153 to look
> up-to-the-minute on Club runs. They would complain if non-staining leather
> was used.
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> I guess the answer is that if they are gloves made from expensive leather,
> the dye may well be 'traditional' and subject to a certain amount of
> 'seepage'. Do they make a matching ski-mask ?
> John Purser
> Sudbury, England
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:10:33 -0500
> From: Jeff Slotkin <jeffslotkin@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [CR] New Dromarti "Gara Rosso" leather gloves
> To: Angel Garcia <veronaman@gmail.com>
> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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> Betraying my ignorance of the various ways one might color leather, I ask:
> is there any way those don't turn your hands bright red for at least a
> hundred rides?
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> Jeff Slotkin
> Charleston, SC