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Gloves for Small Hands + Glove Sizing Explained

Are you frustrated by the fact that most gloves are one-size-fits-all? Don’t worry: here’s a list of places to buy gloves for small hands.

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Like most accessories for men – socks, ties, bracelets, etc. – the vast majority of gloves are only available in one size.

Accessory brands like to claim that their one size gloves fit all men, which is about as misleading as Coca-Cola suggesting that drinking diet soda is a healthy choice.

Anyway, most gloves are made for average sized hands, and this means that anyone with smaller-than-average hands is kind of screwed.

If you’ve ever worn gloves that are too big for your hands, you know exactly how annoying it is to have a bunch of extra room at the tips of your fingers.

It makes doing anything with your hands a clumsy, frustrating experience, which means you have to take your gloves off to zip your jacket up, adjust the volume in your car, or even get something out of your pocket.

Sure, they keep your hands warm, but at what cost?

Obviously, you need to be comfortable and safe when it’s cold outside, which means you need to wear gloves, but you don’t need to sacrifice dexterity for comfort.

@ericrnycstyle wearing grey wool gloves on a crisp NYC winter day

Not to mention, oversized gloves make you look like a little kid. Just like jeans that are too long, they dwarf your figure and produce a kid wearing hand-me-downs effect.

So what are men with small hands to do? The good news is you don’t have to settle for ill-fitting gloves.

There are many options for smaller sized gloves, both casual and formal, affordable and high end. We’ve even gathered our top picks and organized them in a sortable table, but first…

Table of Contents

My hand is roughly 7 7/8 inches around.

This kind of sizing is ideal, but it’s also very rare. More often than not, you’ll have to choose between Small, Medium and Large.

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