Gloves & Brollies: what have men got against them?

H1954. With you on that one, as l am short too, and always have to avoid people's elbows as well.

Instead of banning umbrellas, pop into your local butchers and get half a dozen cows/sheep eyeballs and pop them on the end of your spokes.
I think you will find you have a clear path then to where you want to go........

I asked DH why he rarely wore gloves. He recently tripped and couldn’t get his hands out in time. He never uses an umbrella, unless he’s with me. It seems those things are for us women!

I am told that Post people wear shorts rather than have wet trousers flapping round their legs.
My son wears a bobble hat because he is thin on the top now.and always gloves. I cannot use an umbrella on the scooter but have to wear gloves because hands don’t get much circulation on the scooter.

I think our postmen have a bet on to see who can last longest in shorts!

I think a lot of people can't be bothered with carrying extra bits and bobs. Umbrellas can be a nuisance if you then have to carry them around somewhere. I usually wear a waterproof coat and hood and have a warm one for cold weather. Much easier than carrying an umbrella, although I sometimes take my Fulton birdcage umbrella if it's really pouring. The Queen has one in every colour to match her outfits! They are great if you get right inside and you can see through them too.

I Hate umbrellas with a vengeance.... all those folk cowering under one and never looking where they are going. I would snatch the umbrellas and shove them where the sun dont shine ! Water drip ,drip ,dripping down your upstretched hand and arm...yuk! Give me a waterproof coat with big pockets and a hood big enough to wear a warm Woolley hat under. Good idea ....ban the things!

DH succumbed to the weather yesterday and put on a baseball cap to take the dog out, not much use I would have thought, no gloves though and def no umbrella, but it was blowing a gale.

I wear fingerless gloves that (strangely) keep my fingers very warm, as big woolly hat and a scarf, I’m unrecognisable when I go out.

I use umbrellas - I don't share mine in the rain as I think that those who don't carry one is because they don't want to use one.
I also use an umbrella in the summer, as a sunshade. I do get lots of odd looks but rather that than a hat and sunscreen.

Umbrellas only in wide open places,, not busy streets. Useless when windy though some people don't seem to realise this. Gloves when cold but are a nuisance ensuring I don't lose one. A lot of men don't bother with hair now or it is cropped very short so imagine rain doesn't bother them like it used to with their well gelled styles.

I would ban umbrellas too! I'm only 5 feet tall so I'm constantly getting poked by the end spokes of everyone else's brollies!

I also agree with another comment, they are totally useless n high winds!

DH uses gloves and always has a pair in his coat pocket. Neither of us has an umbrella - we gave these up decades ago. Living here in the rainy NW, we've found that wearing a really good (Gortex treated, or similar) coat/raincoat (with hood, or worn with a stout hat) is preferable to using an umbrella. (Leaves both the hands free, too.)

My son owns more pairs of gloves than I do but he's a professional cellist and very particular about looking after his hands. He doesn't like brollies though.

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I’m happy to take an umbrella on a day out as long as it’s not likely to be windy. As for gloves, they don’t seem to keep my hands warm, no idea why but pockets seem better.

I never use an umbrella myself. Never have since I was a teenager, probably. Too much of a nuisance to carry and store etc. I have coats with hoods for when it rains, or I just get wet. I do wear gloves in winter though. My DH won' t wear gloves no matter how cold it is, despite having a couple of pairs in a drawer. He just shoves his hands in his pockets.

Some men use both, their choice but mine would only wear gloves,would never ever use a brolly, wears a coat with a hood attached

I am a man and have used brolly and gloves all my life , sheer stupidity not to when needed, storm proof ish umbrella, with exception to storms Dennis and Ciara, some good leather gloves. It depends where you have lived , ie wild and woolly places. Nowadays thats everywhere.

Ha ha this is my husband to a tee. No gloves, no hat, no umbrella. When it's raining I put my hood up. He hates that, and mutters "how sexy" not!××

My daughter always seems to break a brolly,its well known in our family she always needs a new one?

Yes in the north i think especially carrying a brolly they seem to think you are a 'jessie' if youre a bloke with a brolly maybe not so much gloves nowadays as they have the new fangled ones for txting or from designer sport wear like adidas,puma,etc.

I use a stick now my osteoarthritis is so bad,and find i cant manage a stick,a brolly,and a handbag! I often dont have a free hand to keep pulling up my hood either in gale weather so thats probably the mystery of that question..my son wears gloves in winter for driving,and he's only 21.he takes them off indoors (shops etc) but yes with this virus rife & winter bugs maybe he shouldn't. I often take gloves but the constant on/off deters me but maybe i should wear them now.

Well, I use an umbrella if it is raining and there isn't a stiff wind. I wear glasses and walking in the rain without an umbrella is hard as no-one has yet invented windscreen wipers for glasses.

I wear gloves in cold weather, but it took me years to want to do so, as gloves were part of our school uniform and we hated having to wear them.

I think most men still feel it is unmanly to show that they feel the cold

I like gloves as my hands are freezing in the winter. Terrified of the expensive ones as I get out of the car and they drop on the floor sometimes if I’ve taken them off inside! Usually to text ( passenger of course). Keep an umbrella in the carjust In case.

I have never owned an umbrella but have had to walk in the road many times to avoid others. I wear gloves a lot, mainly to cut down on germs.

I just don't get on with umbrellas. I either struggle to put them up, drench myself putting them down or lose them.

DH does keep a golfing one in the car, useful in a downpour if we have to stand anywhere but not in a busy street.