Why do main Disney characters wear gloves?

Many of the earliest Disney characters wear white gloves. This means we never see the hands of Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, or Pinocchio. It seems Walt Disney himself was the first to draw white gloves on Mickey Mouse in The Opry House, After that, the emblematic white gloves became the Disney trademark for many years! To be more exact, in 1928, when the first Mickey Mouse cartoon came out, this character still had completely black hands. But by 1929, he started to wear white gloves. There are several explanations to this evolution... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices