There's something about putting on and, especially, taking off a glove. I don't know what it is, exactly, that I find so transporting about this very ordinary action. But when I'm wearing gloves - especially nicer ones, thin leather ones - and I enter a building, walking and taking off one glove first, pulling at the finger ends, loosening, then sliding the glove off and clasping it in the other still-gloved hand, I feel like I'm on stage or, more so, in a movie. Every single time I do this little movement, no matter where I am or how otherwise shabbily I'm dressed, I feel quite elegant, glamorous even. I always feel delightfully cinematic.
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