TradeCraft
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I just wanted to share photos of the gloves my wife received so people know what they can expect to receive, if Anovos ever ship what you order at all.
The main selling point of Anovos is supposedly screen accuracy, and the main excuse for the excessive delays has been matching the screen used props. I don’t think it is out of the question to point out serious problems with accuracy in addition to extremely poor quality manufacturing. There are etsy sellers from the RPF community offering far more screen accurate replicas who don’t have Anovos' access to the original assets in the Lucasfilm archive. The light tan Gloves are Black Diamond "Stone" Gloves, which are the actual gloves used on screen with minor modification, and dyed dark brown. That is how these should be designed, but the stitching, design, assembly, and proportions are nothing like the facsimile thrown together by Anovos. They did have almost 2 years to make this, so I'm shocked this is all they could come up with!
Issues with the Anovos Gloves
Tags have been cut out and replaced
One delay excuse was said to be due to moving production to the USA. Both gloves had tags sewn into the wrist hem during manufacturing, but those tags have both been cut out sloppily. New tags were stitched in later to replace them, but were sewn straight through to the palm of the glove, with black thread, which ruins the exterior look of the gloves. I am also concerned about why the original tags were cut out, and what they said on them. Did the cut out tags say "Made in China"?
Silver paint marks all over gloves
Both gloves are covered in permanent lines and dots from a fine point silver paint marking pen. The silver paint pen was used for marking the outlines of the leather pieces being cut, and to mark stitching lines over the entirety of both gloves.
For large production runs, leather pieces are typically cut using leather cutting dies in a clicker press. In smaller production runs, leather could be hand cut around an acrylic template held in place. Silver paint marks should never be visible over the entirety of a finished production item sent to a customer. This looks like a very rough draft or early prototype.
Leather
The right and left gloves were manufactured at different times, obviously by different people, from very different grains of leather. The leather is very thin and cheap looking, and the surface is cracking horribly instead of being smooth. One glove especially, has the look of being made out of dried beef jerky. The screen used black diamond gloves were made of thick 3oz weight goat leather (approx 1.2mm-1.4mm thick), but the Anovos gloves are made from much cheaper and thinner 2oz leather of a completely different type. The inside of the Anovos gloves are covered in leather dye drips and stains from being handled while wet.
Stitching Problems
The stitching work is very poor, and they didn’t even bother to change the thread type or thread color in the sewing machine’s bobbin between making various items. The right and left glove do not even match. One glove is made entirely using heavy white thread for leather in the bobbin, and the other glove was made using regular lightweight black fabric thread in the bobbin, which is just sloppy.
The palm of one glove has teeth marks/indentions next to all the stitched lines from way too much pressure from the walking foot of the sewing machine used.
Velcro Strap
The screen used gloves used a wrist strap made of a double thickness of leather with a snap fastener closure set in the lower layer, but the Anovos gloves use velcro as a cheaper option. The stitching that attaches the strap to each glove partially misses the strap on both gloves.
Unfortunately, the manufacturing quality of these gloves are more reminiscent of what would be included with a kids Disney Store costume at a $50-$75 price-point. For a Costume of this price, plagued with long delays supposedly stemming from a dedication to accuracy, the quality is obviously very disappointing.
The main selling point of Anovos is supposedly screen accuracy, and the main excuse for the excessive delays has been matching the screen used props. I don’t think it is out of the question to point out serious problems with accuracy in addition to extremely poor quality manufacturing. There are etsy sellers from the RPF community offering far more screen accurate replicas who don’t have Anovos' access to the original assets in the Lucasfilm archive. The light tan Gloves are Black Diamond "Stone" Gloves, which are the actual gloves used on screen with minor modification, and dyed dark brown. That is how these should be designed, but the stitching, design, assembly, and proportions are nothing like the facsimile thrown together by Anovos. They did have almost 2 years to make this, so I'm shocked this is all they could come up with!
Issues with the Anovos Gloves
Tags have been cut out and replaced
One delay excuse was said to be due to moving production to the USA. Both gloves had tags sewn into the wrist hem during manufacturing, but those tags have both been cut out sloppily. New tags were stitched in later to replace them, but were sewn straight through to the palm of the glove, with black thread, which ruins the exterior look of the gloves. I am also concerned about why the original tags were cut out, and what they said on them. Did the cut out tags say "Made in China"?
Silver paint marks all over gloves
Both gloves are covered in permanent lines and dots from a fine point silver paint marking pen. The silver paint pen was used for marking the outlines of the leather pieces being cut, and to mark stitching lines over the entirety of both gloves.
For large production runs, leather pieces are typically cut using leather cutting dies in a clicker press. In smaller production runs, leather could be hand cut around an acrylic template held in place. Silver paint marks should never be visible over the entirety of a finished production item sent to a customer. This looks like a very rough draft or early prototype.
Leather
The right and left gloves were manufactured at different times, obviously by different people, from very different grains of leather. The leather is very thin and cheap looking, and the surface is cracking horribly instead of being smooth. One glove especially, has the look of being made out of dried beef jerky. The screen used black diamond gloves were made of thick 3oz weight goat leather (approx 1.2mm-1.4mm thick), but the Anovos gloves are made from much cheaper and thinner 2oz leather of a completely different type. The inside of the Anovos gloves are covered in leather dye drips and stains from being handled while wet.
Stitching Problems
The stitching work is very poor, and they didn’t even bother to change the thread type or thread color in the sewing machine’s bobbin between making various items. The right and left glove do not even match. One glove is made entirely using heavy white thread for leather in the bobbin, and the other glove was made using regular lightweight black fabric thread in the bobbin, which is just sloppy.
The palm of one glove has teeth marks/indentions next to all the stitched lines from way too much pressure from the walking foot of the sewing machine used.
Velcro Strap
The screen used gloves used a wrist strap made of a double thickness of leather with a snap fastener closure set in the lower layer, but the Anovos gloves use velcro as a cheaper option. The stitching that attaches the strap to each glove partially misses the strap on both gloves.
Unfortunately, the manufacturing quality of these gloves are more reminiscent of what would be included with a kids Disney Store costume at a $50-$75 price-point. For a Costume of this price, plagued with long delays supposedly stemming from a dedication to accuracy, the quality is obviously very disappointing.
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