Hi, I'm Kirby Allison. In today's video I'm excited to launch this year's
special project or digital trunk show of sorts with the renowned French glove
maker Lavabre Cadet. Easily considered one of the finest glove makers in the world
Lavabre Cadet is offering Hanger Project customers the opportunity to commission
a pair of semi-bespoke gloves constructed from individual hand
tracings. Following the success of last year's special project we have added two
new styles to this year's special order that I'm excited to talk about on this
video. For the full details of this year's Lavabre Cadet special project,
click the link in the description or visit our glove page on hangerproject.com
Each customer will be sent hand tracing forms once their order is
confirmed. We are accepting orders through July 31st with gloves being
delivered no later than December 15th. In this video I'm going to go through each
of the styles that we're offering this year, as well as, show you how to take
your individualized hand tracing patterns.
What sets Lavabre Cadet apart? First, access to materials and second a level of
workmanship and handwork that you just don't see anywhere else. Through our
special project we're offering access to three materials. First, kid skin which we
are offering in both the polished and sueded kid skin. Second, pecary which is
being offered in four colors in both a one-piece and two-piece pattern. And
lastly new for this year, alligator. Yes, that's right
alligator. Kid skin gloves. Lavabre Cadet is one of the few glove makers out there
still making gloves out of kid skin which is the skin from a baby goat versus most
gloves which are made from napa leather which comes from baby sheep or lamb. Kid
skin is incredibly soft and supple and an incredibly luxurious material for
gloves. All of our gloves are made with full quirks. Quirks are one of the more
nuance to pattern pieces of the gloves that you would have found on all gloves
fifty or sixty five years ago but are all but extinct these days. Now
quirks are the small triangular pattern piece that fits in between the fingers
of the glove which allow the fingers to sit more naturally
on the hand and for the glove to seat itself better. This allows for just a
level of dexterity and comfort not allowed otherwise. Quirks require a
significant amount of additional work and sadly a detail no longer commonly
found on gloves. For that reason we're very excited to offer it on all of our
gloves here in this special project. Second the nerves of our kid skin gloves
are sewn by hand instead of machine which gives a nice subtle wave and
elegance to the palm of the hand. Our kids can gloves are available with
inside machine stitching which allows for a more formal sleek look or outside
machine stitching. Alternatively for an additional level of workmanship, outside
hand stitching is available upon special request. The gloves are available in
multiple colors in both the polish and sueded kid skin with silk or cashmere
lining. Another special detail of our Lavabre Cadet gloves is that the silk and
cashmere linings are fully floating as opposed to being glued to the leather
and this allows more natural interaction and prevents any type of distortion of
the actual pattern of the glove because of shrinking or stretching. Pecary
gloves. Now the king of all materials for glove without question is pecary.
Pecary is a small, wild, South American rodent that produces an absolutely soft,
supple and visually interesting skin that makes for an incredible glove.
Pecary again is one of those materials that isn't widely available which makes
owning a pair of pecary gloves all that more special. If you're able to find a
pair of pecary gloves it is almost certainly made with a two-piece pattern
which means that the top part and the bottom part of the glove are cut
totally separate and then sewn together. What that results in is an interior seam
along the index finger and glove. But exclusive to our special project and
really drawing on Lavabre Cadet's incredible craftsmanship and access to
materials, we're offering the opportunity to commission a pair of pecary gloves
and a rare, one-piece pattern. This is exceptionally rare because of the
difficulty finding these wild skins in good enough condition to allow for both
the front the back part of the glove to be sourced
from the same skin. Famous French luxury goods maker Hermes is one of the few
places that you can find pecary gloves, but even they stopped selling one-piece
peccary gloves because they were no longer able to consistently source this
material. It is incredibly difficult and unquestionably something only for the
connoisseur. That is why it's so special for Lavabre Cadet to be able to offer
one piece pecary gloves. All of our pecary gloves are made with full quirks
and are available with no lining which is what I recommend because you're able
to feel the full softness of that pecary skin. But this year we're also allowing
your pecary gloves to be lined with cashmere or silk should you require a
warmer glove. Our pecary skins are available in a dark brown, a grey, a cork
and new for this year a mid brown. Additionally all of our pecary gloves
are finished with hand stitching along the border. Now Lavabre Cadet again harking
back to their incredible tradition and craftsmanship has a much higher
stitch density to their hand-sewn gloves which just creates a neater more elegant
glove whose quality can be seen in the details. Now new for this year we're
offering a very exciting variation of our pecary gloves and that is a black
pecary glove with the dark brown crocodile trim. This takes the peccary
glove to an entirely new level. This glove is made with inside stitching, full
quirks, and three hand sewn veins. The crocodile trim is on the interior of the
thumb and also along the border of the wrist. Because of the alligator trim,
these gloves are made either with an interior silk lining or cashmere lining
and inside stitching. An incredibly beautiful glove. I'm absolutely in love
with these. They came as really quite a surprise. They turned out even better
than I expected and for someone that wants a very
distinctive collectors glove that is different than anything anyone else
would see you can't go wrong with this pecary glove with alligator trim.
Alligator gloves. New for this year and exceptionally rare, our alligator gloves
sourced from Louisiana alligator. Yes that's right.
Alligator; these gloves are nothing short of awesome. Initially hesitant that they
would be too ostentatious, it wasn't until I was at a party at Optimo Hats
last year whenever I saw a very elegantly dressed gentleman walk into
the party wearing black alligator gloves. I was struck by how incredibly elegant,
yet somehow subtle these gloves were and resolved to order a pair for myself.
After receiving them and offering them to a few exclusive customers have
decided to add them to this year's special project. Again here we see the
exceptional quality of sourcing from Lavabre Cadet. The alligator is so
incredibly soft that they're able to construct these gloves with inside
stitching. That may seem like a small detail, but most alligator or crocodile
gloves have to have outside stitching because the skins are too stiff to be
folded inside to allow that inside stitching. This is an incredibly formal
and sleek glove. There's no question that this is an indulgence, but it's
absolutely incredible. As with all of our gloves this glove is available with
custom monogramming and as you can see on my black pair I've had my initials
KMA hand monogrammed on to both pairs. We're offering this alligator in both
black and a dark brown. One of the most unique aspects of this Lavabre Cadet
special project or digital trunk show is to have your pair of gloves made based
on an individualized hand tracing. Now we call this a semi-bespoke service because
it's not quite the level of customization that you would get with a
full bespoke service, but then again that requires you to travel to Paris and
visit Lavabre Cadet personally. After every order is confirmed we're gonna follow up
with you and send you a hand tracing and sketching sheet that includes everything
you need to take those hand tracings. Then we ask that you mail them back to
us or scan and email them to us, but preferably mail them. Once
all the special orders have been bundled together we're gonna send all these to
the Lavabre Cadett Maitre Gantier so that they can create your customized
pattern based on your hand tracing. There's two basic steps to the hand
tracing. First is going to be to measure the width of your hand across the
knuckles with the hand gently closed and then second is to provide that hand
tracing. So on the last page is included a measure tape that you can cut out. So
just cut this out or if you have a measuring tape at home you can use that
also but we're including this just to make sure that everyone is able to get a
measuring tape. Now what you want to do is you want to grip this measuring tape
in between your index finger and your thumb and then wrap it around your hand
and then gently close your fingers, right. Now you don't want to clench your fist.
You just want to gently close your fist. Again you're measuring this across your
knuckles. My measurement here is 25 and a half centimeters. So I'm going to write
that right here, 25.5. And then what we're going to do is trace my hand. Now you
want to make sure your entire hand fits on the sheet and then with a pen or a
pencil at a 90 degree angle to the paper you want to start at your wrist and just
gently trace around your whole hand. Now you don't want to push in
too difficult. You want to keep a consistent amount of pressure as you
trace around all of your fingers. Now if you can remember to take off your
wedding band before you do this as you can see that is disrupting this process.
And then make sure you get it into your wrists. Now it's important to take it
into the wrist because that is going to let them know how far the wrist of the
glove actually needs to come up. So there we go. We have my hand tracing. This is
good enough for my left hand. Now complete complete the same process for
your right hand. Again you're going to take the measuring tape grip it in
between your thumb and your index finger. Wrap it around and then gently close
your fist. So you can see this is right at 26 centimeters. For some of you
gentlemen with larger hands you might actually need to use a measuring tape
since this only goes up to 26 centimeters. It may not be large enough
for some of you. So in that case any type of measuring
tape would work just make sure that you're indicating the measurement and
centimeters. So this is the right hand. And again I'm going to trace it holding
my pencil at a 90 degree angle.
Now whenever you're doing your hand tracings, it's important to have the same
person do both hands. So if you want someone to help you with your right hand
because you're right-handed and aren't comfortable doing this with your left
hand, then I would have whoever you want to do your chasing of your right hand
also do the tracing for your left hand. This just ensures that the relative
pressure and the way that the tracing is done is consistent between the left and
the right hand. As you can see it's totally common for the right hand to be
slightly larger than the left and that's part of the virtue of this special
project it is to allow your glove to be made specifically for each hand. If you
have any questions about this process please feel free to reach out to
customer service. We'd be more than happy to answer all of your questions. And once
you're done with your hand tracings, we'll give you an address to mail these
to us now so that we can collect them all and submit them with your order. Now
it's preferable that you mail these to us just to ensure that there's no
scaling issues that happen whenever these are scanned and printed. And as you
can see on the bottom of our hand tracings we actually have a one
centimeter kind of scale for guidance just so that we can double check to make
sure there hasn't been any scaling. If you are an international client again
you know we would prefer that you drop these in the mail to us, but you can go
ahead and scan these and email them to us as a PDF first while those are being
sent via mail. So I've completed my hand tracings and so I would just simply mail
these off to us here at The Hanger Project. So there we have all of the
details for our second annual special project with Lavabre Cadet. I'm incredibly
excited by the new styles that we're offering this year. And if you didn't
have an opportunity to participate in last year's special project, I highly
recommend considering it this year because the quality of gloves that we're
offering from Lavbare Cadet are without question the highest quality, most
well-made gloves available anywhere in the world. These are truly gloves for the
collector or the connoisseur. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask
them in the comments section of this video. I'm happy to get back to all those
questions personally. Alternatively reach out to customer service either via email
or on the website or by calling us at 800-495-3201. All orders must be submitted by July 31st.
At which time we are going to bundle these all together and send them to the factory so that they can begin
work on these incredible gloves. If you enjoyed this video give us a thumbs up
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