Chester Jefferies
Chester Jefferies is a manufacturer of high-quality leather gloves from England. Chester Jefferies focuses on carefully selecting high-quality leathers for its products and invests significantly in quality to ensure that the finished products are long-lasting, stylish, and comfortable to use.
Leather gloves and driving gloves designed for the collection
For the boutique's selection, we want to offer a range of leather gloves that meets the needs of even the most demanding gentleman, so the leather gloves are made to order specifically for Saarnin boutique. Our selection includes soft winter gloves made from lambskin as well as luxurious winter gloves made from deerskin with wool linings to keep your hands warm in winter. The driving gloves are made in color combinations we design ourselves, offering a unique selection of driving gloves. The driving gloves are made from lamb or deerskin.
We select suitable leathers and their combinations from the leather palette. Bright colors are for the driving gloves arriving for the spring season. For the winter season, we choose more subdued color combinations from which warm winter gloves are made.
A long family business history
Chester Jefferies founded the glove-making company bearing his name together with Gilbert Pearce in 1936. However, the Jefferies family is a much older glove-making family, as the first Jefferies gloves were made as early as the 1820s.
The gloves are made in Gillingham, in the county of Dorset, England. It has been a tradition in glove making that some of the work can be done at the employee's home, although nowadays an increasing part of the work is done at Chester Jefferies' own premises.
Handmade
There are many steps in the making of driving gloves that are done purely by hand. The leather is cut by hand and even some models are entirely hand-stitched. The deerskin gloves in the boutique's selection are made by hand-stitching so that the stitches are part of the design. Most gloves are cut and sewn from 16 pieces, and some models have so-called quirk pieces or diamond pieces between the fingers. The pieces between the fingers are a sure sign of a quality glove. The piece gives more space between the fingers, ensuring the durability of the gloves.
Unlike most gloves made for today's market, Chester Jefferies gloves are made from leathers that are inspected and prepared individually before being hand-cut.
It is precisely this careful preparation and the traditional manufacturing methods used by the company's artisans that ensure the perfect fit and excellent performance of fine English gloves. A blend of these traditional craftsmanship skills and strict quality control methods produces the finest leather gloves.
