I work outdoors doing a lot of manual labor at 11,000 ft elevation. These gloves serve their purpose but never look clean, even after washing. In fact, I now hesitate to wear them because they look so filthy and tattered (despite & because of washing) that I hesitate to wear them because they look like something I picked out of a garbage can, and my job involves a lot of public interaction. Id have to have many pairs to rotate through while soaking the dirty ones, and these are obviously too expensive for anything like that.