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This is the root of humanity, this opposable thumbIt enables us to make tools and build cities and everything elseMaybe some other animals have bigger brains in proportion to their bodies than we haveBut the hand itself is an intricate thingThere is no other part of a human being that is clothed that is such a complex moving structure And that was when Vicky popped in the door with the size-four finished gloves"Here's your pair of gloves," Vicky said, and gave them to the boss, who looked them over and then leaned across the desk to show them to the girl"See the seams? The width of the sewing at the edge of the leather--that's where the quality workmanship isThis margin is probably about a thirty-second of an inch between the stitching and the edgeAnd that requires a high skill level, far higher than normalIf a glove is not well sewn, this edge might come to an eighth of an inchIt also will not be straightLook at how straight these seams areThis is why a Newark Maid glove is a good glove, gucci horsebit hobo RitaBecause of the straight seamsBecause of the fine leatherSmells like the inside of a new carI love good leather, I love fine gloves, and I was brought up on the idea of making the best glove possibleIt's in my blood, and nothing gives me greater pleasure"--he clutched at his own effusiveness the way a sick person clutches at any sign of health, no matter how minute--"than giving you these lovely glovesHere," he said, "with our compliments," and, smiling, he presented the gloves to the girl, who excitedly pulled them onto her little hands--"Slowly, slowlyalways draw on a pair of gloves by the fingers," he told her, "afterward the thumb, then draw the wrist down in placealways the first time draw them on slowly"--and she looked up and, smiling back at him with the pleasure that any child takes in receiving a gift, showed him with her hands in the air how beautiful the gloves looked, how beautifully they fit"Close your hand, make a fist," the Swede said"Feel how the glove expands where your hand expands cartier must 21 and nicely adjusts to your size? That's what the cutter does when he does his job right--no stretch left in the length, he's pulled that all out at the table because you don't want the fingers to stretch, but an exactly measured amount of hidden stretch left in the widthThat stretch in the width is a precise calculation
"Yes, yes, it's wonderful, absolutely perfect," she told him, opening and closing her hands in turn"God bless the precise calculators of this world," she said, laughing, "who leave stretch hidden in the width," and only after Vicky had shut the door to his glass-enclosed office and headed back into the racket of the making department did Rita add, very softly, "She wants her Audrey Hepburn scrap-book
The next morning the Swede met Rita at the Newark airport parking lot to give her the scrapbookFrom his office he had first driven to Branch Brook Park, miles in the opposite direction from the airport, where he'd got out of the car to take a solitary walkHe strolled along where the bolsas prada Japanese cherry trees were bloomingFor a while he sat on a bench, watching the old people with their dogsThen, back in the car, he just began to drive--through Italian north Newark and on up to Belleville, making right turns for half an hour until he determined that he was not being followedRita had warned him not to make his way to their rendezvous otherwise
The second week, at the airport parking lot, he handed over the ballet slippers and the leotard Merry had last worn at age fourteenThree days after that it was her stuttering diary
"Surely," he said, having decided that now, with the diary in his hands, the time had come to repeat the words his wife had spoken to him before each of his meetings with Rita, meetings in which he had scrupulously done nothing other than what Rita asked and deliberately asked nothing of her in return--"surely you can now tell me something about MerryIf not where she is, how she is
"I surely cannot," Rita said sourly
"I'd like to speak with her
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"But if she wants these thingswhy else would she want these things?"
"Because they're hers
"So are we hers, Miss
"Not to hear her tell it
"I can't believe that
"Does she?" he asked lightly
"She thinks you ought to be shot
"Yes, that too?"
"What do you pay the workers in your factory in Ponce, Puerto Rico? What do you pay the workers who stitch gloves for you in Hong Kong and Taiwan? What do you pay the women going blind in the Philippines hand-stitching designs to satisfy the ladies shopping at Bonwit's? You're nothing but a shitty little capitalist who exploits the brown and yellow people of the world and lives in luxury behind the nigger-proof security gates of his mansion
Till now the Swede had been civil and soft-spoken with Rita no matter how menacing she was determined to beRita was all they had, she was indispensable, and though he did not expect to change her any by keeping his emotions to himself, each time he steeled himself to show no balenciaga blue despera