ZipperBack Gloves: Crumpled Fingers No More!

Nothing’s quite as pathetic as watching a kid try to put on a pair of gloves, only to end up with his or her fingers in all the wrong holes. Try to force a glove to fit, and it just gets sadder — and don’t even think about making snowballs. Well, with its ZipperBack Gloves, the young, family-run company WarmEase is trying to put an end to ill-fitting winter mitts. Designed for ergonomic ease-of-use, ZipperBack Gloves feature a flap that zips open to reveal easy access to finger and thumb holes. Elastic gathering on the inner wrist helps to keep snow away from little digits, while the water-resistant shell adds an extra layer of warmth and dryness.

Perhaps coolest of all, though — at least from a kid’s perspective — is the soft-fleece patch on the gloves’ forefingers, which allows for easy nose-wiping without removing the gloves. Sure, you may need to run ZipperBack Gloves through the wash cycle a bit more frequently than you’d like, but your kids will like not having to risk frostbite just to deal with stray boogers.

$24.99 from ZipperBack Gloves. (Sizing chart available.)