{"id":15545,"date":"2024-06-04T12:37:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T02:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=15545"},"modified":"2024-06-04T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T02:37:56","slug":"why-would-you-wear-driving-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/blog\/why-would-you-wear-driving-gloves\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Would You Wear Driving Gloves?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Take a look around the cabin of your car \u2013 or a new car \u2013 and check out all the different storage compartments.\u00a0 One of the most important ones you\u2019ll spot is the glovebox.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find many things in a glovebox \u2013 mine has a mileage logbook, a paper map, several CDs, the driver\u2019s manual, several paper serviettes, some compostable teaspoons and a half-eaten packet of nuts.\u00a0 What you\u2019re less likely to find in just about any driver\u2019s glovebox is\u2026 a pair of gloves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why is this compartment called a glovebox rather than, say, a mapbox or just a plain old cubbyhole? Well, the reason is that in the early days of motoring, wearing driving gloves was de rigueur, so one needed a place to put them when one wasn\u2019t driving.  Hence the need for, and the name of the glovebox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the most part, driving gloves seem to have gone the way of driving goggles and leather helmets and similar motoring garb of the late 1800s and the first half of the 20th<\/sup> century.  After all, we don\u2019t need to keep our hands warm no matter what the weather (but see below!), bees and fast air out of our eyes, and dust from gravel roads off our clothes (in an era when clothes had to be washed by hand).  However, there are some advantages to wearing driving gloves and keeping a pair stashed in the glovebox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, what are driving gloves?  If you\u2019ve never come across them before, you can get the idea of thick ski gloves or even motorbiking gloves out of your mind.  Instead, think of something more along the lines of a golfing glove \u2013 something lightweight and supple.  Driving gloves are usually made of leather or faux leather and are not padded.  Some are fingerless (so you can use the touchscreen) and others have full fingers, and they usually stop at the wrist.  Some, especially the sort made from synthetic materials, have ventilation holes to allow breathability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why would you or should you wear driving gloves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n