Geier Glove Deerskin Roper Glove

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Work gloves are often an afterthought. Either you realize you need them right before you start a project, or you try digging holes for one day without gloves, and then go running to purchase a pair because you can’t fathom another day digging with hands that raw. 

You can walk into any Home Despot or local hardware store and easily find a display offering a cornucopia of seemingly rugged work gloves that will get the job done. If you like paying companies to advertise on their behalf, you can even buy a pair emblazoned with Milwaukee or Dewalt.  You exchange twenty dollars for an anonymous commodity, thus completing the soulless transaction, and you are on your way! 

Those gloves will be fine and they will protect your hands and the world will keep spinning. But, the missed opportunity is owning a beautiful pair of gloves that will continue to soften, mold to your hands and patina beautifully with age. Cheap, oversized and itchy cowhide-palmed gloves get dirty, crusty and nasty with wear. Rarely if ever are you excited to put your hands back into them, and you wouldn't excitedly reach for them before a cold morning’s walk through the park. 

The simple truth behind it all is that you should be wearing gloves more often than not when working. And if you are actually excited to reach for those gloves that you now proudly store within view on the coat shelf, and using them continues to impart character upon the leather, then you are more likely to use and enjoy the gloves.

Geier Glove has been manufacturing gloves for working, riding and roping in Centralia Washington for over 90 years. They are a genuine player in western cowboy culture. It is not very often we get opportunities to support wonderful companies like this, and in doing so, keep some of that old Americana soul alive. Geier Glove does not sell direct to the public, and since the pandemic, they have been working through a surplus of demand. David Morgan has one of my favorite collections of American-made workwear, and they might have the largest selection of Geier gloves. 

Unlike generic work gloves that only come in two sizes, Large and Extra Large, Geier gloves come in a full range of sizes. To get your glove size, take a measurement around the palm of your hand with a soft tape.  

If you are curious about the benefits of deerskin as a glove material, this is an interesting article.