How to select the right size gloves?

How to size your hands for great fitting gloves

Print out the Hand-Size-Guide, lay it flat on a table. Lovely Hands – Final Hand-Size-Guide
Standing up, place your right hand over the blue hand outline, follow the written instructions, and keep your fingers together not splayed. Note the size number suggested and look for this in the ‘select a size’ option on the product page. Manufacturers recommend rounding up the size if you are in between
Other factors to bear in mind;

If you are tall you tend to have hands needing the larger glove sizes.
If your fingers are long or chunky this may also necessitate a larger size.
Depending on how stretchy the fabric you may get a better fit in your lower size.
Stretchy gloves – Ladies & men’s – Maxiflex Elite, Active and Ultimate, Showa 370, 341 & 306

Ladies –Tegera 90066, 90068, 90065My personal example;The blue outline suggests I am between a size 6 and 7, closer to the 6.

In stretchy gloves where I want to have my fingers right down to the ends I wear a 6. In leather gloves that do not have so much stretch I wear a 7. I have slim fingers.

Men – please see the table of men’s hand measurements for each individual glove on the product pages and below.

If in any doubt contact me or order a selection to try on at home. Returning goods is easy, please see the policy.

Lovely hands glove size guide

Lovely hands sell 4 glove manufacturers products. They are all made of different materials and modelled on slightly different hand measurements.

To help you buy online and get the best fitting gloves first time lovely hands has put together their own group of men to try on the gloves and give their size preferences. 3 key hand measurements have also been captured for most of these men, which will help you find a buddy who is most like you.

Based on this research, which is geared to help you successfully buy your correct size online, Lovely hands has overridden some of the glove labels worded descriptions in favour of a description that reflects the findings and will guide you better. This is what you will see in the select a size / choose and option box on the glove product pages.

If you have any queries please contact me and we can look at the information together and make an informed decision.

Gloves are quite a personal thing, from correct fit to preferences in material, I am here to help.

Unisex sizing description –Maxiflex &Tegera use this Stretchy gloves – Ladies & men’s – Maxiflex Elite, Active and Ultimate Ladies – Tegera 90066, 90068, 90065

Label on gloves says; (description OK for Men)	Lovely hands description for men	Lovely hands description for ladies
5 – XX small		5 – X Small
6 – X small		6 – Small
7 – Small		7 – Medium
8 – Medium	8 – Medium	8 – Large
9 – Large	9 – Med / Large	9 – X Large
10 – X Large	10 – Large	10 – Ladies long hands & fingers
11 – XX Large	11 XL long fingers	11 – Ladies long hands & fingers
12 – XXX Large	12 XXL long fingers

Showa – all 3 styles are stretchy gloves

Label on gloves says;	Notes
5 XS	Showa 370 is bigger than Maxiflex Active size 5
6 S
7 M
8 L	Fitted majority of men in all 3 gloves
9 XL	Suits wide hands, or hands of tall men.	370 glove fits as XL, 341 glove is bigger than 370, 306 is really big v size 8

Lovely hands glove size information

Sorted by knuckle circumference.

Knuckle circumference

Hand Length (middle finger down to base of palm)

Middle finger length

Preferred Glove size

Male hand measurements

cm

Maxiflex Ultimate

Showa 370

Showa 341

Showa 306

Tegera 517

Tegera 292

Tegera 117

Predator gauntlet

Ben (Teen)

18

8

9

7

8

6

8

Y

Jordan

19

7.6

8

7

6

8

Y

James

20

19

8

10

8

11

10

Y

Graham

20

19

8

11

8

11

10

Y

Edward B (Teen)

20.25

18.25

7.5

9

7

6 or 7

8

Y

Chris

20.5

19.5

8.25

X

9

8

11

10

X

Peter S

20.5

20

8.5

11

9

8

X

11

10

Y

Rich

20.5

20

9.5

11

8

9

Y

Mark B

21

18

8

7

9 or 10

8

9

Y

Derek

21

19

10

8

9

Y

Brian

21

19

10

8

7

9

Y

Stephen F

21

19.5

8.5

10

8

7

9

10

9

Y

Stephen W

21

20

8

9

8

7

9

10

9 or 10

Y

Richard

21

20

8.25

9 or 10

7

8

7

10

9

Y

Steven

21

20

10

8

7

9

Y

William (Teen)

21

20

8

10

8

9

Y

Jonathan

21

20

10 or 11

X

10 or 11

Y

John H

21

20.5

9

10

8

11

10

9 or 10

Y

Cor

21

22

10

12

X

9

X

11

X

Andrew

21.5

17

9

Will

21.5

18

8

11

9

8

11

10

Y

Peter

21.5

19.5

9

Paul C

21.5

20.5

9

11

9

X

11

10

Y

John

22

19

7.5

9

8

9

10

Y

Mark

22

19

8.5

10

8

11

10

Y

Alan

22

20

9

11

9

8

11

10

11

Y

David

22

20

8.5

11

9

X

10

X

Adam

22

20

8

Mo

22

21

8.75

10

8

11

9

Y

Mike

22

21

8.5

11

9

8

11

Y

Arjo

22

10

12

X

9

X

11

X

Steve

22.5

18

8

10

Edward

23

20.5

9

11 or 12

9

8

11

10

11

Y

Paul D

23

21.5

9.25

11

9

X

10

Y

Delivery

UK Deliveries only at the moment

Good value speedy delivery service.

The customer pays the postage on orders up to £50.

Lovely Hands will pay second class postage on orders over £50.

We use Royal Mail for deliveries for the following convenient reasons for both parties;

The postage label has both a typed and QR scan code – this logs confirmation of delivery
Flat, fair postage rates across the UK
The goods are insured

1st class – 1 day delivery aim

2nd class – 3 days delivery aim

Orders received before 2.30 pm Monday – Friday will go in that day’s post. One post drop on Saturday morning.

Products ordered that fit into Poly or Jiffy bags should go through most letter boxes, it will only be boxed items, including the gift boxes that will not fit and will need someone to be in the receive them. For boxed items – please consider where you will be when the package is due to arrive and select the most convenient delivery address for you, home or work.

1st & 2nd class postage for order value up to £40.

Signed for 1st and 2nd class post will be the default used where the value of the package is over £40, for insurance purposes.

Gift Vouchers will be posted recorded, signed for.

If you have concerns about your delivery please contact me and I will put a trace on the parcel and let you know progress. This is usually only necessary if we have bad weather conditions.

If the carrier has recorded a failed delivery and the goods are returned to us as you failed to pick up the goods within the time limits set by the carrier, we will treat this as a cancelled order and we will make a charge not exceeding £5 for UK items to cover the costs we have incurred in sending your parcel (if applicable) and paying for the return. We regret that we cannot be held responsible if the carrier has failed to notify you of an attempted delivery. We will inform you of the refund amount via email. If you require replacement goods please reorder by replying to the email.

If you have ordered multiple gloves to try on at home, intending to send back the ones not required, this is fine. If free postage has been enjoyed because the order was over £50 or there was a coupon code used then this cost will be recovered from the credit owing on the gloves. An email will be sent to clairfy this. It won’t be a lot of money.

Submitting a product review on the website – this is only open to customers who have made their purchase from Lovely Hands.

We appreciate your feedback, not every review will be put onto the website though.

Guidelines for any photographs emailed of gloves with pets or hobbies / sports – this is much appreciated, please ensure your identity is protected, Lovely Hands will not be able to edit the photos before use.

Returns

Please contact us before sending any returns.

Gloves - washing instructions from manufacturers

Downloadable Laundry Instructions by ATG

Tegera Gloves washing_guidelines

Showa gloves – washable at 40oC.

The Tegera gloves with white leather palms can be sprayed with a leather protective spray to help prevent staining, and cleaned with a face or baby wipe.