Uses for Old Kid Gloves

From the Sheffield Independent, 18^th May 1917.

OLD KID GLOVES.

Take Them to the National Welfare Exhibition.

Have you any old or discarded kid gloves?  Then take them with you to the Cutlers' Hall when you visit the National Welfare Exhibition.  There is a stall at that exhibition showing waistcoats for soldiers and sailors made out of such old gloves.  Size doesn't matter, nor the state of dirtiness in which the gloves may be.  The kid is cleaned before being made up, and even the smallest pieces—the finger parts—can all be utilised.  The Glove Waistcoat Society gives employment to women and pays them a living wage, while at the same time making use of material that would otherwise be wasted, and out of it creates windproof garments that are a great boon to our soldiers and sailors.  Bits of fur are also acceptable, for they are utilised in making the overall gloves so much appreciated by the men on the mine-sweepers scouring the high seas that we at home may not have to endure privation.