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Opera Gloves <ref>Probably so-named because in the late Victorian era these were required with "full décolleté" (low-necked and short-sleeved) evening dresses worn to [[Opera
Most popular during [[Regency England|the Regency Era]] (roughly 1790 to 1814, so you'll see them in a lot of [[Jane Austen]] adaptations), the [[Victorian Britain|late Victorian Era]], [[The Gay Nineties]] and [[The Edwardian Era]] (roughly 1870 to 1914), and the [[World War II]] years through the early Sixties. Mostly confined to "specialist" fashions since then (wedding gowns, debutante outfits and the like), though there was a minor revival in the 1980's.
Opera Gloves are usually associated with the following character types (not an exclusive list, but these are the types most frequently seen wearing long gloves:
* royalty (empresses, [[The High Queen|queens]] and [[Princess
* [[
* other [[Silk Hiding Steel|young ladies]]
* burlesque strippers;
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As noted, Opera Gloves are closely associated with the aristocracy and royalty, especially during the 1870-1914 period, (in fact, gloves in general have been a symbol of royalty and authority for millennia) and many fictional queens, princesses and noblewomen will be portrayed as wearing them as part of their dresses (would be [[Gorgeous Period Dress]], but those were worn in [[Real Life]] as well).
They can also be [[Fetish Fuel]], especially when worn as part of a dominatrix outfit, or if featured in a scene with a stripper (or somebody imitating a stripper) where the ecdysiast ''slowly'' removes her gloves, one at a time.
Commonly paired with a [[Pimped-Out Dress]], [[Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry]], [[Pretty in Mink]] (whether a fur wrap or fur coat), [[Parasol of Prettiness]].
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* The would-be wedding dress made for Princess Fala/Allura in ''[[GoLion]]''/''[[Voltron]]''.
* In ''[[Love Hina]]'', {{spoiler|Naru}}'s wedding dress has [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers|feather-trimmed]] gloves.
* In ''[[Perfect Blue]]'' the CHAM costume has
* Dorothy from ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', during her stint as a [[Woman in Black]].
* A few [[Pretty Cure
* Princess Kaguya of ''[[Yaiba]]''.
* ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'', mainly in Karin's Aphrodite [[Magical Girl|transformation]]. And Nyx's outfit, which has gloves of this sort apparently made out of black lace.
* [[Cute Mute|Chane]] [[Knife Nut|Laforet]] in [[Baccano!]].
* Izumi, Mitsuki and Anna boost the [[Fetish Fuel]] quotient of their [[Meido]] outfits in [[He Is My Master]] by wearing white
* Sorata Muon's female assistants in [[Mouse]] often wear
* Gloves of various styles, appropriate to [[Victorian Britain|the time period]], can often be seen worn by various characters in ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]''.
* On ''[[Dragon Crisis]]'', Maruga, Empress of the [[An Ice Person|white dragons]] often wears opera gloves.
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* [[Lady Death]] wears [[Fingerless Gloves|fingerless]] opera gloves, although sometimes the middle finger is left intact.
* The Black Cat wears opera gloves while out for dinner with [[Wolverine]] in ''Claws II''.
* [[Anna Mercury]] wears red, studded
* Cartoonist Bill Ward is famous for his "Glamour Girls" and "Telephone Girls", a great many of whom wear opera-length gloves.
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== Films -- Animation ==
* Three of the [[Disney Princess
* Jessica Rabbit in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.
* The title character in ''[[Anastasia]]''.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* The [[Femme Fatale
* Joan Collins wears opera gloves in numerous scenes of her 1980's miniseries ''Sins'' and ''[[Monte Carlo]]''.
* Jacqueline Bisset in her 1987 miniseries ''Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story''.
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* The female cast of ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'', when in Sailor Scout mode.
* Italian actress Anna Valle in the 2003 miniseries ''Soraya'', paired with 1950's-era [[Gorgeous Period Dress]].
* Centuries-old vampire and nightclub owner Janette in ''[[Forever Knight]]'' has been known to wear them as part of her classy, old-fashioned
* Mexican actress and singer Aracely Arambula in the telenovela ''Corazon Salvaje'' and the current stage production ''Perfume de Gardenia''.
* Elizabeth McGovern, [[Michelle Dockery]] and other actresses in [[Downton Abbey]].
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== Video Games ==
* [[The Legend of Zelda|Princess Zelda]], except in the first three games, always wears
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Princess Peach]], except for the sports spin-offs. But despite her outfit practically being a recolor, ''not'' Princess Daisy.
* Female (civilian) bystanders in several installments of the ''[[Hitman]]'' series wear evening gowns and Opera Gloves.
* Alexia Ashford in ''[[Resident Evil Code Veronica]]''.
* Female player characters of several professions (Mesmer, Elementalist, Paragon, Necromancer) in ''[[Guild Wars]]'' can wear Opera Gloves (or gloves resembling them in style) as part of their outfits.
** Judging from some screenshots, female characters of certain professions can select
* Shows up in the ''[[Soul Series]]'', due to all the varied outfits. Cassandra's first outfit is one.
* Adelle of ''[[Arc Rise Fantasia]]'' has red gloves to match her dress, and they also have [[Pretty in Mink|white fur trim on the wrists]] (making it almost seem like two sets of gloves).
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* Red Opera Gloves are part of superheroine [[Dasien]]'s costume, along with [[Leotard of Power]].
* In ''[[Garanos]]'', Geilen wears a pair to cover up the marks of her illness.
* Ivy in ''[[Lackadaisy]]'' wears a pair with her evening dress. Good example of [[Shown Their Work]] - while flappers in photographs from the 1920's are rarely shown wearing
* The gloves Heather wears as part of her uniform in [[Spinnerette]] are long enough to be this (and have cuffs at the top!), even if she doesn't refer to them by that name.
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* Because the delicate leathers and fine fabrics needed to make gloves were so hard to come by for so many years, gloves became closely associated with aristocracy and authority. Logically, therefore, the first women recorded as wearing gloves in the 16th Century were noblewomen (chief among them Queen Elizabeth I and Catherine DeMedici). One of the first women pictured wearing what we today would think of as ladies' long gloves was England's Queen Anne, at the beginning of the 18th Century.
* As noted above, Opera Gloves of the ''mousquetaire'' style were popularized in Europe and America in the early 1870's by the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt, who reportedly wore long gloves to make her arms (which she considered to be too thin) look more attractive.
** By the way, if you see a ''mousquetaire''-style pair of Opera Gloves in a Regency film (such as one based on a [[Jane Austen]] novel), it's a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]]. Long gloves in that period were tailored to fit loosely on the arm, and were often held up by drawstrings or garterlike straps (this was [[Shown Their Work|portrayed correctly]] in the 2005 ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' movie). It was during the Victorian Era that it became fashionable to wear tight
* [[Napoleon Bonaparte|The Empress Josephine]] is said to have worn long gloves for the same reason, and also did much to make the style popular in post-revolutionary France.
* The famous [[The Gay Nineties|Gay Nineties]] American musical-theater star Lillian Russell is said to have caused a sensation by cycling down New York's Fifth Avenue, riding a white-and-gold bicycle given to her by "Diamond Jim" Brady and wearing a [[Pimped-Out Dress|spectacular cycling outfit accessorized with shoulder-length white Opera Gloves]].
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