When I was much younger than I am now, I had these rubber costume hands. They weren't gloves, exactly, as they were much larger than my actual hands. They were fairly rigid so that when I moved to close my hand the fingers kind of flopped over and folded at the first knuckle joint. The hands were bumpy and textured on the outside and smooth inside, and that after a few minutes of wear they became quite humid.

These costume hands weren't part of a specific get-up, exactly. They were just kind of big, crazy Halloween hands. Seeing an eight-year-old me in them must have been either frightening or hilarious.

They looked like this:

Analogcabin @ 3:59 PM
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