A savvy garden gal can never have too many gloves. After all, my hands are my hardest-working gardening tool.
So here's ones to love: Ethel Gloves, an all-purpose line, was launched last year by Valencia-based Mechanix Wear, the company that supplies NASCAR pit crews with high-performance hand protection.
When the Mechanix Wear folks turned their attention to women’s hands, they tried to put function and protection in a feminine form.
“Ethel Gloves have an expressive take on gardening,” President Michael Hale says. “But they also have reinforced fingertips, and an extended cuff to protect wrists from the sun.”