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Back in 1991 I think it was, I bought a pair of Perl Izumi Lobster gloves. I was bicycle commuting to work through the winter in Maine and I had arrived at work a couple of mornings unable to use my fingers because they were so cold. The lobster gloves made all the difference in the world. With the lobster gloves my hands still got cold occasionally, but the wind didn't go right through them and my hands remained usable through whole winter. If I remember right, I had to part with the equivalent of nearly a month of grocery money. I fretting seriously about sinking that sort of cash into gloves but they were worth it.

I don't bicycle commute anymore, but I still have the lobster gloves and they still work better than almost any other glove for cold dry conditions. They aren't waterproof anymore if they ever were so wet snow will render them ineffective pretty quickly. When my hands got too cold in insulated work gloves while running the snow blower today I switched into the lobster gloves and finished up with warm hands.

This thought ties in quite well with the Vimes Boot Index: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/terry-pratchett-jack-monroe-vimes-boots-poverty-index If you can afford to buy good gloves, you probably have good gloves for quite a long time.

Pearl Izumi still sells lobster gloves and the prices are the same or less than they were back in the day.