The gloves quickly arrived and looked beautiful. I tried them on and the 'Small' size fitted my hands perfectly. They have a nice elasticated cuff that means that they fit snugly so that bits will not creep down into the gloves (tell me it is not just me who ends up with bits of garden in their gloves if I am not careful?). They also have nice breathable backs and sturdy palms and fingers made of synthetic fibres. Yes it does look like leather, to be honest it feels a lot like leather too, but I was assured that there are no actual donkeys involved in the making of the gloves (phew). The company also try and use recycled materials where they can. They are also handily hi-vis. If like me you cast your gloves off to do something then look around and they have disappeared, these will stay in view as they are delightfully bright orange on the backs.
Beautiful and clean they may look as new, but we all know that getting them dirty is the real test. So the next weekend I went out into the garden to get on with some weeding. It was a soggy wet day and so this was a good test for them.
The end result was a very dirty pair of gloves. Apart from dirt they were unphased by the weeding, they stood up well to my couple of days in the garden and I am not a softly-softly gardener. I have a lot of tough weeds so nettles were grasped and brambles tugged at.
The one thing I do have to say is that the gloves are not completely water-proof. It was a really cold wet day when I was in the garden and I think it was probably too wet to have been attempting to garden. I would defnitely recommend these gloves and if you were looking for a gift for a gardening friend I do not think they would be displeased with them.
The very nice people at Donkey Gloves have asked if I want to give away a couple of pairs of gloves.I had a think about this and I decided I would ask you to use the contact form on the home page to send me a message saying why you would like a pair of these lovely gloves.I will pick the winner randomly on the 4th December 2018 and email the winner on the 5th December 2018. Entries will only be valid if received through the contact box.
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