Best climbing gloves according to redditors

Oooh, good question. I spent some time on the RPF tracking things down, so here's a breakdown. For the record, eventually I will be trading all of this for the ANOVOS set because it looks so good. I placed an order, but knowing ANOVOS, it might take a year.

Vest: Purchased from the Disney Store. They have a kids' Jyn Erso vest. https://smile.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Sergeant-Erso-Costume/dp/B01N1Q7U8B/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492644234&sr=8-1&keywords=jyn+erso+kids I ripped off all the detailing: the three pieces of black webbing, the fake puffy badge, and the fake clip. Attached rubber tubing to the inside flap and where the vertical black webbing was. Cemented that tubing with a screen accurate clip from the M60 backpack, and a buckle at the bottom. Then dyed some of that backpack's webbing to get the nice brown color for the horizontal squares on the chestpiece. 3D printed a new badge and adhered that to where the old one was. Took the cap off a lightsaber pen I'd won a few years ago at Dave & Busters as the Comm link. (And there's a Jyn toy in my other pocket, but that's just for fun.)

Shirt: Just used the Disney store one. I fit perfectly into a size 9/10. I'm 5'0 and 100 lbs.

Blaster, Death Star plans, and tonfa: 3D printed and ordered from a shop off Etsy

Gloves: Ordered the screen-accurate Black Diamond Stone gloves in an XS and modded them to fit smaller. https://smile.amazon.com/Black-Diamond-Climbing-Gloves-Natural/dp/B00AHEQ0TO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1492644457&sr=8-3&keywords=black+diamond+gloves+climbing Ripped off the flaps and velcro, dyed them multiple times with brown leather dye and weathered them with nailpolish remover and deglazer. Sewed circles into them to be screen accurate, and added new leather I bought off eBay that I cut and sewed to the gloves. Added snaps to keep them shut.

Pants: Not screen accurate, ordered them a LONG time ago as a commision but the pants should have a wide waist tab, seams, and knee detail. Excited to upgrade in my ANOVOS set.

Belt: Ordered off Etsy

Boots: The screen accurate boots are Veronica Frye boots. They are EXPENSIVE. I managed to tool around and find them for $40 on Poshmark in a different color. Stripped them of that color and dyed brown, with weathering. Created leather flaps, dyed and weathered, and attached to the newly dyed boots. Added 3D printed clips (just ordered the Jessica Lange ski boots for screen accurate clips to sew in).

Hair: Messy bangs and layers. I pretended to have this by clipping my hair back. Should be tied into a low bun in the back.

Hope this helps :) Lots of before and afters are on my Instagram, but the RPF is also wonderful if you actually know how to put something together rather than just modding! And I would recommend ANOVOS - I literally ordered it as well!

I have a time lapse video I'm editing, as well as two dyeing tutorials that I'll be posting to my YouTube when I have time, but this is the gist:

Tunic: Hemp/cotton jersey from Dharma; dyed with ECRU fiber reactive dye (although if I remake it, I will choose a more grey color - I spent WEEKS agonizing over what color her costume was). I used cotton gauze for the sleeves (I originally got this for the arm wraps, but changed my mind. Luckily, I had dyed both together so they were the same color) and went over the whole thing with sandpaper and dry brushed brown paint (the lighting in this picture kind of washes that out)

Pants: Raw Silk from Dharma; dyed with SAND DUNE acid dye (I ordered a different kind of silk to try as this one feels too nubby, but looks decent in pictures and is pretty comfortable otherwise)

Legwraps: Leftover Raw Silk - I hit the edges with fray glue which gave them a rugged appearance, but also made them insanely uncomfortable. After seeing the movie now, it doesn't even look like she used them!

Boots: From Pozu. Expensive, but worth it to me to not have to make shoes, and they're comfortable

Arm Wraps: Medical gauze; soaked for several hours in coffee/grinds; dry brushed with brown paint and the edges were seared with a soldering iron

Tabard Wrap: Viscose Silk/Rayon Blend from Dharma; dyed with SAND DUNE acid dye - twisted it into knots and left to air dry to create the wrinkles - I will probably iron out the bottoms a little so they aren't so tightly wrinkled later

Belts: Raw leather blanks from Tandy; dyed with OLD LEATHER shoe dye from this place (MY FAVORITE WEBSITE EVER BTW), touched up the edges with BLACK shoe dye, then went over the whole thing with the preparer to give it a worn look. Stretched and bent it several times to cause creases. Used the buckles from my Signal Satchel bag (not featured). Used twine for the details on the side. They were two separate pieces, so I used contact cement on the edges, then a piece of faux leather as backing to keep them together where they meet

Gloves: Pretzl gloves; removed the Pretzl wrap and dyed them with LEATHER, OLD LEATHER, and dry brushed BLACK shoe dye. Used preparer generously to create weather looked

Bracer: Two pieces of faux leather with black craft foam sandwiched inside (gave it a very nice seamed look). Contact cemented the leather sides to the craft foam and trimmed the edges. Cut the slots in and it was basically done. Painted the backside with LEATHER shoe dye to give the accent color

Yea, I use a lot of moisturizer, avoid wetting my hands unnecessarily. I've tried different healing/medicine lotions, different diets, etc. Sometimes feels like my skin has supernatural reasons to go good or bad. Eczema sucks.

Thanks for idea. I think I'll try some open gloves first since my fingertips are in okay condition. And yea, people have looked my hands for my whole life like they spread AIDS or some other shit so I don't care much about weird looks. Thinking about ordering these https://www.amazon.de/Black-Diamond-Erwachsene-Handschuhe-BD801859BLAKLG_1/dp/B00A2Q66BO

My hands never stop sweating, to the point where I leave any route I climb, primarily at a gym, wet.

So I've generally just avoided getting much into climbing, but my wife has picked it up and really likes it, so I need options. I'm currently looking at some gloves. I think half gloves, like

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A4ZD6Q6

would help, because a lot of the sweat comes from my palms, but I'm also looking at full finger options like

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0168NNYDM

but I don't even know what crag glove means, so no idea if it's what I need or not. Anyone used gloves for all around climbing? Any other options or things to search for?

These will work just fine

they don't care about color

I tried these leather texting gloves. Quite comfy and stylish, and keep your hands warm whilte texing:

https://www.amazon.com/AYAMAYA-Texting-Leather-Motorbike-Valentines/dp/B0787XDYLD/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522870651&sr=8-1&keywords=ayamaya+gloves