Chapters of a life story

Ines was born and raised in an elegant time - a time that makes you reminisce of days when people always wore leather gloves in Le Métro de Paris, at the Royal Opera House in London or strolling around the Florentine Ponte Vecchio on Sunday afternoons...
Ines van den Born - Ines Gloves Amsterdam

1947-2022
♰ Ines van den Born.
Founder of Ines Gloves, leather gloves designer and equal rights activist.

Bygone elegance.
Black-and-white photograph of a street scene featuring a row of ornate, early 20th-century European buildings. The structures have intricate architectural details, large windows, and gabled roofs. Pedestrians and a few cars are visible on the cobblestone street in front of the buildings.

The Hague - 1950's | Each year luxurious department store Meddens opened by appointment for Ines and her family to get bespoke leather gloves.
A black and white photo of a multi-generational family posing outside in front of a large window. The group includes elderly men and women, middle-aged adults, and children. They are surrounded by numerous potted plants and flowers. Everyone is dressed formally, with the men in suits and women in dresses.

Around 18 years of age. Ines grew up as the youngest of 6 siblings in a posh Dutch family and chique surroundings in Wassenaar.

Amsterdam 1999 | A rare picture of Ines sewing a new prototype in her atelier. Because of her illness she was not very fond of pictures.

Bob, owner and son of Ines. Raised between gloves.

“Where are the elegant unlined leather gloves I used to know?” -Ines

Why did gloves disappeared end of last century as a fashion statement?

A little story about how Ines became a little part of history and why Ines started to craft her own gloves.
A woman with slicked-back hair walks confidently outdoors, dressed in a stylish brown suit. She accessorizes with elegant earrings and a large textured handbag. Her gloved hands, adorned in classic glacé leather gloves of extra length from Ines Gloves, and composed expression complement the formal outfit. The background features a stone building with evenly spaced windows.

The return of glamorous leather gloves

Gloves out of fashion, what happened?

At the end of last century, when Ines needed gloves again to protect her hands from being bruised due to an auto-immune disorder, she could not find the thin unlined leather gloves she knew from growing up in the 1950's.

Of course there were nice gloves available but mostly with silk lining, because that was more easy to put on and off.
Not to mention long leather gloves were hard to find, especially in nice and bright colors.

Some luxury brands like Chanel offered some long gloves in their seasonal collections, but these were also lined and not widely available.

The gloves available at that time were dull and boring.
Where are the elegant unlined leather gloves I used to know?

She thought: 'I am going to buy them on the internet, because you can find everything online these times.'
But no, only rubber, acrylic gloves were available on dubious fetish sites..

Then she decided to buy a pair of leather gloves at a high-end warehouse, took the lining out and cut off the fingers so she could protect her hands and still able to type on the computer keyboard.

She began getting lots of nice remarks from family, friends and colleagues about her altered gloves.

Then the idea arose to start her own fancy gloves brand and bring back those elegant thin unlined leather gloves she used to know from the old days..