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to wonder if MOB would have worn gloves in the 1980s

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OhGingleBells · 05/06/2024 16:48

Sorry - posted in AIBU for traffic!

Would the mother-of-the-bride have been likely to wear gloves to a wedding in the 1980s? I googled it but it mostly came up with information about bridal gloves. It's for a book - the character is in her early 50s and I want her in gloves as a plot point but only if wearing gloves would have been a fairly standard/normal thing to do!

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DelurkingAJ · 05/06/2024 16:51

DM relates as a newly wed in 1973 she was told that she should wear gloves to a formal event at DDad’s work. She refused on the basis that it was madness…so I think not common by the 1980s.

PlatinumBrunette · 05/06/2024 16:51

Mine didn't!

FuzzyPuffling · 05/06/2024 16:51

Unless it's midwinter and she has Reynauds disease.

FuzzyPuffling · 05/06/2024 16:50

No.
In the 50s, probably but not the 80s.

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