Kid Gloves Or Kit Gloves
I say of course but in fact when they were first fashioned in the 18th century they were more often made from lambskin as that was easier to come by.
Kid gloves or kit gloves. The term handle with kid gloves thus means to be very gentle or tactful. I would imagine the kit gloves reference was just a typo. Kit or kid gloves.
The first references to kid gloves is found in the 1700s though at this time kid gloves were actually made from lamb. Kid gloves are made from kid young goat or lamb young sheep and are very soft and sensitive to the wearer s touch. Eρμηνεύτηκε από ww ww στις πέμ 16 06 2016 22 46.
So to use kid gloves is to handle something gently. To handle something with kid gloves means to handle something delicately and carefully to deal with a person or a situation gingerly kid gloves are gloves that are made out of leather made from kid goat. The phrase handled with kid gloves means to handle something very delicately.
Kit gloves are work gloves and protect the wearer and the thing person being handled. They were clearly not intended for use when you were pruning the hedge and wearing kid gloves was the sartorial. It was the material used to make the classic white gloves worn by house servants for example or by those handling museum artifacts.
Posted by bob on april 23 2000. Kid gloves are of course gloves made from the skin of a young goat. In the 19th century single person wore kid gloves was a euphemism for daintiness or an aversion to work.
The expression is kid gloves. The phrase handled with kid gloves means to handle something very delicately. While the term kid gloves is used as an expression the term kit gloves refers to physical gloves.