Why do some cartoon characters wear white gloves?

yeah! why do they wear white gloves?sounds interesting huh! i am a fun of these cartoon characters that you had mentioned...

Hey,
First of all very good observation . Secondly i guess they all are from cold countries so they wear a gloves and white color suits their skin color .

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Tutul

That is a good question and sorry I don't know the answer. But maybe is you googled it or went to www.disney.go.com maybe you could find the answer there?

I'm thinking they wear white gloves to do the white glove test to see how clean things are? Just guessing. And if you have time would you please take a look at my profile, thanks.

I think maybe because it is easier to draw gloves than it is to draw hands. They are white gloves, because white goes with everything and is more attractive against the other colors. That is my theory.:o)

Could it be so the hands stand out against a dark colour, Mickey Mouse is a black colour so his hands are more noticeable being white or could it be that drawing gloves on a character is easier than hands? Uhmmm... I don't have a clue!

I think it doesnt have something to do with its history. I think it's with the cartoonist who made them. Lol.

You need to go back to the early years of cartoon and animation, in order to understand why certain characters wear gloves. Disney of course was a pioneer in these genre as well as Hanna-Barbera. The first Disney animation was in the late 1920's if I'm not mistaken (or at least somewhere around early 1930's), and if you look at films made during this era, you'll notice most men and women wear white gloves. In fact if you've recently watched the Nicole Kidman movie, Australia, which is set in the years leading to World War 2, you'll notice people (of certain social standing) then were wearing white gloves. So it's not entirely far-fetched to surmise that the original cartoonists who created Mickey Mouse, et al, fashioned these cartoon characters' attire and accessories after what was the normal fashion back then.

I guess like spoiledbrat802 mentioned above, I think it's the fashion & tradition back in those days & they got stuck to it? HahaPlus I guess drawing gloves is easier compared to the detailed fingers?

To give more details to the cartoon character. Ask the cartoonist LOLZ... Why does some wear undergarment as their last clothes to put on. Like superman.^_^. The cartoonist is the one who knows the answer to our questions

When some of these cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, etc) were first introduced, it was normal and proper to wear gloves in public, especially for the 'uppercrust' people who could afford to take their children to the theaters to see these cartoons. Had they not worn gloves they may have been deemed 'improper' and not attended to heavily. (Also, cartoons themselves were introduced during the change over from live-performance vaudville to motion pictures. In vaudville, while gloves were worn simply so that the stage lights would shine on the hands to make them more visible to the audience.) Then the gloves became part of their character. For Mario, being a working class person, workgloves would be considered part of his uniform.