Why do most Disney characters wear gloves? Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Pinocchio, and most Disney characters all have one accessory in common—gloves. Although there are many surprising facts about Disney’s most famous characters, putting gloves on animation characters is actually a pretty logical move.
The short answer as to why so many characters wear gloves is that animation is an intensive process. In the age of black and white cartoons, separating characters’ round-edge hands from their black bodies was hard. Gloves were an easy way to make their hands stand out. In fact, Walt Disney might have been the first to put gloves on his characters in The Opry House, starring Mickey Mouse. Once animation moved away from black and white, Mickey and his pals kept their signature white gloves.
Besides keeping the animation simple, Walt Disney told his biographer, Bob Thomas, that the gloves exist for another reason: to humanize the mouse. “We didn’t want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human,” Disney told Thomas in 1957, according to the New York Times. “So we gave him gloves. Five fingers seemed like too many on such a little figure, so we took away one. That was just one less finger to animate.”
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