How To Choose Glove
- the skill of glove selecting
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Using environment, protecting ability, shape, comfort, style, size, material price and quality should be considered when choose glove.
Brief Introduction
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Glove is commonly used in many industries and circumstance, such as cold winter, hospital(especially emergency and dental departments, veterinary clinics), hygiene, cycling, chemical handling, etc. The function of glove is protecting your hand from any injuries.
Appropriate glove is helpful to reduce the relative risk of injury; a pair of wrong gloves may lead to hand injury. And it takes more than a week to come back from injury.
So it is very important to select a pair of good gloves.
However, there are so many suppliers and products, how should we make a choice and make decision to choose the best glove for your hands?
This article analysis many factors in gloving using and supplies the final solution for the gloves choosing. The solution covers the choosing skill for both gloves traders and direct glove users.
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Several kinds of glove are presented in the photo.
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- Section : Tips
- Key Word : how to choose glove
- Author : Jasper
- Industry : Glove
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How Traders Choose Gloves
Glove Market Research
Glove market research must be done before you start glove business, no matter to have a glove shop in living district, specialty store in shopping mall, or do a online gloves business. The fist step to make clear is what kind of customers you are facing and what kind of gloves they needs.
For example, you are planning to build a glove store. You should prepare ordinary glove for hands warm and daily used rubber glove if there is living district nearby; Outdoor gloves should be prepared if there is outdoor or biking club; Lab gloves should be the main product if you build the store near a university or chemical factory.
In one word, your customer type decides your gloves.
Customer Industry
You should know which industry they are in, when you contact a customer to provide glove.
Hospital needs rubber gloves; police station needs cut resistant gloves; dancing team needs gloves in fashion or elegant gloves. It is easy to get the order when you talk about the gloves feature based on their request.
Compare Gloves Suppliers
It is good idea to compare all glove suppliers, both local and globals, both wholesales and manufactures. For most of the time, gloves manufactures in other country provides much better price than local wholesalers. You are suggested to contact the manufactures directly when you are buying a batch of gloves.
Gloves Feedback
You are suggested to contact the customer two weeks after they buying your gloves. Customers may let us know the pros and cons of your gloves, which is very useful when you provide next batch of gloves to the customer.
Communicate With Your Glove Supplier
It is the time to let your suppliers or manufactures know the details after you got the feedback from customer.
You customer will be pleased after the manufacture may do some adjustment according to the feedback.
How Direct Users Choose Gloves
All people needs glove to protect hand.
To choose the right pair of gloves, we suggest you to follow the following advice.
Using environment
You should know what kind of environment are you using before buying a pair of gloves; or in other words, where, how to use the glove.
Fox example, cotton glove is the best choice if you use it in winter to warm your hands; biking or outdoor glove is suggested if you are taking cycling; Rubber glove is good if you use it in lab.
Choosing gloves according to environment or practices is the important factor to get the best gloves.
Protecting Ability
The glove should be choose according to the protecting ability needed. If you are choosing a pair of cotton gloves to warm your hands, the temperature should be considered. Thick cotton gloves should be used when the temperate reach -20 degree; thin cotton thread gloves is enough if the temperature is around 0 degree.
The method is also available when you choose gloves for laboratory, clinic, hospital or outdoor activities. The more injury possibility, the higher protecting ability should be provided by the gloves.
Glove Shape
You should choose one type of shape from full fingered, partial-fingered, fingerless or mittens.
Mittens and full fingered gloves provides the best protection for your hand, but this lead to reduction of dexterity.
Partial-fingered and fingerless gloves provides more dexterity, but the protection is reduced.
Your decision should be made according to the actual operation or practicing activities.
Short or long gloves are also should be choose based on this method.
Comfort
A pair of comfort glove is helpful in improving protecting and practicing ability. Discomfort glove may increase the injury risk.
It is essential to choose glove with ergonomic comfort. The best and simple method is trying the glove with your hand; otherwise you need to request the ergonomic related certification.
Glove Style
Model should be considered when you choose a pair of gloves for daily use. We all need a pair of gloves for an elegant look.
Business glove is needed when we meet customer; casual style is ok when we go shopping; sports gloves is needed when we play some kind of balls.
The choosing of glove should also match the dress, at least there is no violation between dress and glove.
Glove Size
Size is also a key factor in Glove choosing.
Most gloves are available from XXS to 3XL. The right size of the glove is closely related with the aesthetics and practicality.
It is necessary to select a pair of gloves to fit your hands perfectly, then the glove provides the best protection to your hand. Too big or too small glove leads to lower protection.
The best method is trying the gloves, otherwise, you need to measure the circumference of your hand and choose the appropriate size according to the size chart of the brand.
Glove Material
Glove material is closely related with the using environment.
Rubber glove is designed for lab or chemical related work. Leather glove are mostly used in daily life, for warm and protection; Cotton gloves are used to warm hand, oh yes, the white cotton or thread gloves are used in official ceremony; Woolen gloves are suggested in cold winter; Silk gloves often used in banquet or ceremony.
Glove Price and Quality
Glove is a kind daily used tools. The price is available from 1 USD to 500 USD per pair. If you buy a pair of glove to use it just for a short period, then you can find low price glove. Luxury glove is suggested if you wear it to attend grand ceremony.
If you are selecting a pair of daily used gloves, you can find the best balance on quality and price.
Last Word
I think you have a pair of gloves after reading this article.
Nice quality, good protecting level, reasonable price and comfort glove, with appropriate size, shape, style and material is the best solution.