"Brides are allowed considerable leeway: Long, satin dresses are not daytime wear, either, but they are properly worn by brides. That said, Miss Manners wants to discourage you from wearing opera gloves to your wedding on both aesthetic and practical grounds. The practical reason is that they are not easy to remove; the drawn-out way of peeling them off is so mesmerizing that it used to be a staple of stripper acts. And your ceremony presumably involves putting on a ring."
"One traditional solution was to cut the seams of the glove's ring finger, but that leaves it flapping. The aesthetic reason is that opera gloves go on bare arms. If your wedding dress is the typical strapless one worn nowadays (although surely your bridegroom, in particular, would appreciate something more traditional), you will look even more like a debutante than most modern brides do."
A bride plans a 10 a.m. cathedral wedding while her fiancé intends to wear a cutaway. Opera-length gloves are generally discouraged for a morning wedding on practical and aesthetic grounds. Practically, long gloves are difficult to remove, can mesmerize when peeled off, and complicate placing a wedding ring; cutting the glove's ring-finger seam leaves it flapping. Aesthetically, opera gloves are worn on bare arms, which with a typical modern strapless wedding dress can create a debutante-like appearance. Tipping is an expected social practice for workers whose jobs traditionally require it, regardless of perceptions about minimum-wage livability.
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