Gordini New Slide Gloves - Insulated (For Women)

Wore these today in driving rain with crazy hard gusting winds. My hands were warm and dry. The gloves were flawless and nice looking too. My new favorite gloves to brave the Oregon coastal storms in.

The gloves would have been a great purchase except that the colored rubbed off. My hands are still black five days after wearing them and I've done some serious scrubbing. The color also rubbed off on anything(my clothes & white ski jacket included) I touched leaving a stain behind.

I just went back to the item description to see if I made a foolish mistake and ordered unisex gloves for my small hands. Nope. Sz small in this "women's" design leaves me with a lot of air at my fingertips. There's a poorly formed, lumpy and uncomfortable seam between two fingers, and I hoped to send them back on that basis, and have them replaced by sz. XS. No such product. Today's weather was unusually benign - over 40 and barely drizzly - so not much challenge on either temperature or water resistance. I don't think they're going to be very warm, as I could feel air coming through the fabric backs. The leather feels nice, I like the knit cuffs rather than having to deal with Velcro (I'm using these as bike gloves, and everything has Velcro and sticks to everything else), but I'm not sure I'm going to keep them.

Too large in all dimensions, and I find nothing that seems like an insulating layer. Leather on the palm is definitely not lined, fabric back is some combination of materials. I like the knit cuffs - too much velcro on bike gloves in general; these grab my wrists as they should and hook nothing else. I wish these fit better. I went back to look at the product description to see if it was really unisex sizing, where I would be an XS. Nope, specifically women's, and S was the smallest. Maybe I'm supposed to be wearing liners inside them.