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Why do cartoon characters wear white gloves?
The short answer is efficiency! But it was also an artistic choice that became a creative convention...
"We didn't want (Mickey Mouse) to have mouse hands, because he was supposed to be more human," Walt Disney wrote. "So we gave him gloves. Five fingers looked like too much on such a little figure, so we took one away. That was just one less finger to animate."
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