What are Wristies?

Wristies are fingerless gloves, glove liners, cuffs, a fashion accessory -- all in one!  Worn on cool days, Wristies keep your hands warm and fingers free. On colder days, put a glove or mitten over your Wristies. Wristies are worn in the office, around town, on the trolley or to keep warm anywhere!  Great for mom, dad, the boss or the mail carrier.  Grandma loves them too!

Wristies are made from Polartec®, a Malden Mills highly technical polyester fleece. Polartec breathes, is water repellent, and retains body heat.  The fabric also wicks away moisture from your body.  Wristies are incredibly soft, warm, and comfortable to wear.  They come in a three styles: Original, designed to go half way up to your elbow and are the most versatile - worn as fingerless gloves and glove liners; Short Wristies, designed to cover your hand and wrist only and best as fingerless gloves; and Heated Wristies, with the length of Short Wristies but with a pocket to carry mini hand warmers. Wristies come in a variety of colors and five sizes.  Heated Wristies are now patented and the name is a registered trademark.

What do Wristies do?

Wristies keep you warmer, that"s what!  With Wristies covering the back of your hands where are lots of capillaries and blood vessels doing their thing, and also by covering the pulse point (they don"t call it that for nothing!), your whole body feels warmer.  The circulation in your hands is warm and improves, even when your fingers aren"t covered.

As glove liners, Wristies also keep the wind and rain from invading that gap between your coat and gloves.  And in the snow, they keep that white stuff from going up your sleeves if you wear them while snow fort building, skiing, sledding, etc.  Tehnically, Wristies prevents any heat from being lost from around your wrists and hands, so you won"t get that bothersome and painful ice build up on your coat cuff.  Even grownups remember that awful feeling!  And if you take your glove off to adjust something like goggles, you won"t lose all that valuable body heat, and you"ll stay warmer.  Of course don"t let this "snow job" of a story prevent you from wearing Wristies inside or for other reasons!  Many people wear Wristies just to keep them warm - inside their offices, around town, or on the slopes.

How do i wear Wristies?

When wearing Wristies as glove liners, put Wristies on over your shirt or sweater cuff and before you put on your jacket or coat.  This does a variety of things: it anchors your garment sleeve keeping it from sliding up your jacket.  Plus, Wristies keep that shirt sleeve dry.  No more wet cuffs!  Also, this enables youngsters to zip their jackets at a younger age because they will be putting on their mittens after they put on their coat.  No more Frankensteinian, "Zip me up, Mom!"  They"ll do it themselves!

TONS of people wear Wristies without gloves and mittens, too.  They wear them while they type to keep their wrists and fingers warm and flexible.  They wear them shopping.  They wear them while they read a book or watch TV.  Some people even sleep in them and some wear Wristies all the time.  Before they turn up their thermostats, they put on their Wristies!

"I started wearing Short Wristies as soon as they were available, about 4 years ago, and preferred them", says Sue Gregory, President.  "Now I"ve reverted to the longer length.  I accordian fold them up from the elbow end so that the outside of the material shows and hides the inside tag.  This creates a slightly tighter feel around my wrist and if I need the longer length, it"s right there - i simply unroll them!  A quick and easy solution!"

Which style should I buy?

Short Wristies are best worn as finger less gloves.  If you don't intend to wear them as glove liners, then Short Wristies should do the trick.

Original Wristies, in the longer length, are by far the most versatile style.  Wear them under mittens and coats as glove liners.  Wear them alone as finger less gloves, too.  And wear them as cuffs, too.  Original Wristies are best for outdoor activities, especially snow sports, motorcycle riding, and other activities where snow, wind and/or rain might invade that gap between coats and gloves.  Some folks with longer arms also find the original length, which measures 4" longer than the Short style, is great for sleeves that might be too short.

Heated Wristies, designed with a pouch that holds mini hand warmers, are wonderful for people who have difficulty with circulation in their hands, or are in situations where it's difficult to keep hands warm.  Since Wristies fit on either hand, the warmers can be facing the back of the hand or palm, which ever works best for you. 

What about colors, sizes, and price of Wristies?

Wristies and Tubies colors: black, red, royal blue, gray, light blue, raspberry, hot pink, pistachio, camel, purple, navy (NEW!), brown (NEW!), and serengetti print, and oooh Leopard (NEW!).  Heated Wristies are available in camel, gray, black, navy and now LEOPARD!

Wristies sizes and styles (prices in parenthesis - prints slightly higher): 

• Short Wristies: adult small and adult large (USD 12.00 solid, $12.50 print).
• Original Wristies: toddler (USD 8.75 solid, $9.00 print), child small and child large (USD 10.00 solid, $10.50 print) adult small and adult large (USD 14.00 solid and $14.50 print).
• Heated Wristies: adult small and adult large (USD 18.00 solid and $19.00 print).
• Light Wristies are made with a lighter weight fabric making them a bit thinner that our other style and available in adult sizes (USD $14.00 solid, $14.50 print). 
• Tubies: small-medium and medium-large (USD 11.50 solid and $12.50 print).

What size should I buy?

Generally, Adult Small fits most women, Adult Large fits most men. Some women who buy large sized gloves will feel more comfortable in Adult Large.  And vice versa, some men with smaller hands fit nicely into Adult Small.  Both young teen girls and boys fit into Adult Small, but once boys hit mid high school, they often are sized best in Adult Large.

Children fit into three different sizes:  Toddler usually fits children 0-3 or 4 years old.  4-8 year olds generally fit Child Small, and those 8-12 usually fit Child Large.