Gloves & Brollies: what have men got against them?

Have any of you ever read Gervase Phinn's tales recounting the (mostly) amusing incidents he experienced as a school inspector?

This thread reminds me of one of them. It is many years since I read it, so I don't recall the exact details, but it was along the lines of the following:

One day, he was assessing a group of children. One 'test' involved showing them a picture in which there was something that wasn't quite right (it might have been that some clothes drying on a line were blowing the opposite direction from something else, but I'm not sure).
Anyway, he was showing the picture to one young northern lad, who stared at it for ages.

When asked again if he could spot anything odd, the boy replied "Aye - there's a mister wi' a brolly!"

That was the gist of it, anyway ?

He’s a bit different now, but for more years than I care to remember dh would never wear a warm coat or jacket however cold it was. He didn’t even possess a proper coat. I think he did possess some sort of inner central heating, but even so....

One Christmas I bought him a properly warm wool winter coat and he did actually wear it, usually over a thin business suit.
Memorably he said, ‘It’s actually rather nice being warm!’ ?

However he wouldn’t take it when later making a business trip to somewhere like Lithuania in the depths of winter when he knew the temp was about minus 20. Of course he then had to go and buy something locally - v annoying!

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I hate to see a man wielding an umbrella. There's something a bit unmanly 8about that to me. Gloves are ok though.

Sigh! That's me off your Christmas card list.

Umbrellas are the work of the devil. They either poke you in the eye as they go past you, or ram themselves inside out whilst you battle the elements trying to get them back, or they drip icy cold water down the back of your neck. I'm not surprised that left luggage offices have more umbrellas as items of lost property than any other item. They're lost deliberately!

Jillybird using gloves against Covid advise is not, they just transfer, unless you wash and antibac...wash hands!
If it’s really cold, husband will wear gloves, if chucking down, uses hood on coat.

I hate to see a man wielding an umbrella. There's something a bit unmanly 8about that to me. Gloves are ok though.

Paw always wore a hat and latterly, when he needed a stick, a brolly have been no use.
Personally I hate trying not to get my eye poked out by people who seem to assume their brolly gives them right if way.
But I suppose it constitutes social distancing? .

I love those domed, transparent umbrellas - wonderful when you have just had your hair done and it decides to blow a gale and pour outside.

My DH wears gloves when it’s cold and has on occasion used a brolly.

What I can’t persuade him to use is a shopping trolley. (He cooks, so he food shops locally.) All the ladies around here use them to bring shopping home, but none of the men. They all struggle with heavy bags. So much more macho!

Don't possess an umbrella, and only use gloves when its freezing.

My DH keeps a couple of brollies in the car and he uses them if it isn't windy. I have a brolly in the house and if I pop to the corner shop in the rain, I put my hat on and stick my hands in my fleece lined pockets and leave the brolly and gloves at home.
I prefer a hat, keeps my "flyaway" type hair in place and is warmer.

Another walking stick user who struggles with an umbrella and stick and a handbag!
I find gloves difficult with my stick aswell, even gloves with a grip. Luckily I'm usually a warm person.
I finally gave in a bought a coat with a hood (doesn't fit with my style ?) but living in Auld Reekie I need it!!

I use both but my DH no!!!! He goes out in the cold then moans his hands are cold. If its raining he just doesnt go out!!!

There may be no connection whatsoever, but I remember the sex talk we had in the school gym about a hundred years ago from a very tweedy woman doctor. (Can I say “tweedy” ?)
She advised us gels that a pair of stout leather gloves and a pointy umbrella were essentials for repelling unwelcome male attention!

I wear gloves if it’s really cold. I also take a umbrella a wind proof one. But even so it still manages to blow inside out. Yes must admit they are a nuisance.last time I wore a coat with a hood attached I was crossing the road and when I looked left I was looking in my hood hahaha,

My daughter and I were talking about this recently having seen to males walking around in shorts and flip flops in freezing wind and rain. Madness.

I can only speak for myself being one of the few men on the forum. However, I would not ever dream of carrying or using an umbrella and along with that, I have hoods on my weatherproof jackets that I also hardly ever use.

If the weather is good and I know I am definitely going to be in the office for the entire day I then like to walk to work and if it is a cold morning I will wear gloves, but that is normally the only occasions.

In my case in regard to wearing or carrying garments, it probably goes back to when I was a truck driver many decades back. At that time I became somewhat "weather hardened" often getting soaked or literally frozen loading or unloading the vehicles in the open at which times it was difficult to be wearing heavy garments.

That said, many other men seem to adopt the same attitude to wet weather gear as I do, but it is not a subject that we ever seem to discuss among ourselves?

My umbrella accompanies me everywhere I go ?
Gloves if going for a walk, but not if out in the High St in and out of shops.
DH has a very expensive umbrella which he rarely uses, and
Hardly bothers with gloves either ( and then says he is cold.)
So, in that respect he does fit the stereotype.Nor will he ever wear a scarf, and only wears a hat when it’s absolutely freezing.He does, however wear a warm coat and not the short fleece jacket most men seem to sport these days for every occasion.

I should add that I have yet to find s hood that does a good job. They either blow off at the least gust of wind or sit too far forward or back.

I have an umbrella in my car boot, but can’t remember when I last used it. Being only 5ft tall, using it makes me a public hazard, and I find them such a nuisance.
I also hate juggling with gloves. I’m almost tempted to sew a string on them and thread them through my sleeves, as I used to do with the childrens’ mittens.
Hats are a necessary pain in the cold weather. I have tried on many styles, but look a mess in all of them, while my daughter can slap anything on her head and look like a model. Keeping warm is the main thing, though. No-one, except me, really cares what I look like.

Perhaps we could stick Velcro on our foreheads and on the hood so the hood doesn't fall over our eyes.
It could setma fashion trend.

I like wearing my gloves!

Oh dear, I think I am in trouble with GN,s I hardly ever wear gloves, we live in Sweden and it is usually very cold but gloves I hate, however today with the storm around I did succumb to gloves and a woolly hat, never use those either, umbrella no use today,as I am not keen on them either I was pleased. I did look like a Martian as I was so covered up, nobody would have recognised me,I took the bus as I didnt dare to drive.I sympathise with the men being called allsorts for not wearing gloves or using unbrellas.

Like your correspondent with insufficient hands, I now need to use two trekking poles to keep my balance so umbrellas are impossible. However, when I used them I always had a windproof one which acted as a shield in the face of horizontal rain. Hoods are largely useless on women's jackets as they are cut so that they fall over one's eyes - dangerous. I have had to throw away several matching hoods of this type. I would like a separate hood which fastens close to the face. Maybe the frozen chicken pleated plastic hair cover will come back into vogue, but I doubt it. As for men, only a minority have any interest in their hair being ruined by rain. Real men like soldiers have to stand in rows no matter what the weather.

My dear late husband would never use a brolly (he said they were 'a bit jessie' - make of that what you will, but he was happy to hold one over the two of us.
He wore a cycling cap and gloves on his bike, otherwise he'd never wear a hat unless the weather was really extreme. On very sunny days he'd wear a plain baseball cap due to the glare when he was driving his lorry.
Yesterday I saw a dog walker in flip-flops in the cold and the wet, shorts too.

As a man, I don't use a brolly, and never really have. They're cumbersome, they get blown around if there's a slight breeze, and apart from the head, you still get wet.

Plus trying to hold on to a brolly while pushing my rollator, just doesn't work!

Also, nothing worse than a bunch of little women walking around with brollies, trying to take your eye out! It's bad enough when raining, but to have to try to dodge all those brollies makes it worse.

Now for.gloves, I wear mine as soon as the weather n temp drops. I'm very borderline Raynaud Syndrome, and even in the summer, I wear fingerless gloves if it's a cool day.

For the rain, I wear my trilby, and I have approx 6 different ones for winter, and 4 summer hats.

Mostly men can't be bothered with brollies, and as for.gloves... they're just idiots! lol