I started to type this as "Fall Trend," but really, these are something useful for the cold season every year.  I discovered the greatness of fingerless gloves last year, after being frustrated trying to text message sitting at bus stops in the cold.  Regular gloves impair my BlackBerry usage and gloves-free hands are too numb to type.  My simple solution was to simply snip the tips from my $2 knit gloves, but this year I'm on a quest for a more chic option.  Mena Suvari recently wore fingerless gloves on the red carpet and still looked very feminine and put-together.  Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Chloe Sevigny have also been seen sporting the look.

 ASOS carries a wide assortment of fingerless gloves, from these soft and feminine Insight Braveheart Boy Fingerless Gloves ($16) to the bolder Diesel Rock-Hand Gloves ($32).  (They also have a mesh pair based on the style of Chloe above, but they are currently sold out.  You can get a pair of Fishnet Fingerless Gloves from F21 though.)

Forever 21 sells several pairs of fingerless gloves as well, including Fingerless Long Lace Gloves ($5.80), some long striped Avril-Lavigne-circa-Let-Go-reminiscent gloves, and some shorter knit and macrame pairs.  My fave though are these adorable Crochet Owl Gloves ($14.90).  If you love them as much as I do, there's a matching scarf available as well.

Of course, you could always knit your own, thrift a pair, or carefully chop off the fingers of an existing pair of gloves to make your own look.

As comfy as the knits look, the gloves I am really dying to try on are fingerless motorcycle gloves.  Sported often by Paris Hilton, they are at the same time edgy and functional.  My fave pair is the Diesel Black Gold Fingerless Asyclove Gloves below ($85) from SSense, or you can slip your hands pair of Fingerless Driving Gloves from Nordstrom for $78.

$70+ may seem like a lot of money to spend on gloves, but much like a leather jacket, it's a wardrobe piece that will outlast every cheaper bit of super-trendy clothing in your closet.

Another sorta-similar look is these glove wrist cuffs seen on Lindsay Lohan and Paris.  Paris' cuff is a little bit feminine and a little bit rocker and I think it looks great (it is Chanel, after all).  Lohan's cuff is a bit more awkward in my opinion, however, and I think she would have been better off going with a full-on glove.

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