
Clooney had committed no obvious faux pas, her gloves perfectly suited to her floor-length black gown. Was it a breach of fashion etiquette that raised such consternation? Not likely, as Ms. White gloves are not a look to try lightly, The Telegraph of London cautioned: “Too glitzy and you risk comparisons with Michael Jackson too starched and you look like the Queen.” Clooney is anything,” she posted, “it is not a blushing teen or fresh young debutante.” “They make this look like her prom, or her debutante ball,” sniped Jessica Morgan, a blogger on a celebrity site.

Clooney for a fashion choice that, however respectfully intended, struck some as uppity, or at the least, unsuitable.

Griffin was just one in a chorus of critics taking potshots at Ms. Kathy Griffin, in her Monday morning debut on “Fashion Police,” fired off one of the first salvos: “She had on those gloves that remind me of, like, a porn scene, where the guy goes home and there’s the naughty dishwasher, and she only has the gloves.” Incandescently white against her regal black gown, and scrunched below her elbow, those gloves - her own - brought down on her head a storm of controversy.

For better or worse, depending on which critic one consults, she pulled off that dubious feat by accenting her dramatic one-shoulder Dior haute couture dress with a pair of pristine opera gloves. At the Golden Globes on Sunday night, the fastidious Amal Clooney made what passed for red carpet history, turning the proceedings at the Beverly Hilton hotel into something resembling an affair of state.
