We applaud these ‘witty’ new mittens from kate spade new york

These mitts are not twits. They are smart, with the opening quote on the right hand and the closing quote on the left. You hold up your hands, you wink, you make your point. Your every off-the-cuff remark will elicit a smile … proving, as we like to say, that good grammar shows good taste.

The box is jaunty and festive and potentially handy for envelopes. The stripes remind us of the little kate spade new york Things we Love book — which now might move off my bookshelf … to live atop the glove box.

To avoid a typographic “quotastrophe,” we recommend Ilene Strizver’s enlightening Felt & Wire feature. To revel in “unnecessary” quotation marks, we recommend The Book of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks, from Chronicle Books (shown here). To avoid disappointment, we recommend ordering your mittens before the snow gets too deep to dig out your mailbox.