Sharkskin Designer Gloves Are a Real Pain to Take Off

Well, hi there! Thanks for clicking by today. Fill your mug and tempt yourself with a tasty virtual treat whilst I bend your ear a little. Remember those Indian Fakirs who liked to sleep on beds of nails? Well they've got nothing on the latest designer gloves.

If you’re looking for a pair of comfortable designer gloves, stay away from Sruli Recht’s pain-inducing mitts. The Australian designer used an inner lining made of basking shark skin, which features thousands of hook-like scales.

From the outside, Sruli Recht’s Lasting Impression looks like a nice and soft basking shark skin glove, but there’s a thorny surprise waiting inside for would-be wearers. The eccentric designer decided to fit the interior of his creation with thousands of sharp hook-like scales, all directed inward. That means the gloves are easy to put on, but literally a pain to take off. “Should you put your hand in, you will discover that the thorns, all directed to slant inward, will lock your hand in place in the manner of ten thousand fishhooks. Should you attempt to remove it, the thousands of thorns will bite into the skin. 

You can put the gloves on, but to remove them would mean to cut them off. Gloves for life, or for one wear – the ultimate and final commitment,” Recht writes on his website. Of course, you could always cut it off to avoid experiencing the excruciating pain, but then again, you would be throwing a good $950 right off the window. I say pull the hand out! Yes, you’ll probably faint from the pain, but you will have ripped off most of the spikes, and ended up with a nice, comfortable glove. Plus, you’ll feel like a real man…in a lot of pain! Has to be similar to a guy with four mothers-in-law, wouldn't ya say?

See ya, eh!

Bob

Postscript: I know a little about basking sharks having covered them in a science lesson some time ago. Basking sharks are the second largest fish in the sea after the whale shark. On average the adults measure 6-8m in length. According to Wikipedia, the largest basking shark ever recorded, 12.27 m, was also caught in a herring weir on the Bay of Fundy in 1851.Now that'd make a lot of gloves, wouldn't it?