These gloves are for women with small to medium sized hands ONLY. If you have large hands, you'll be able to sorta wear these, but they'll slowly creep off your hands and down your arms.  There's some give in the fabric, but no stretching these out enough to make these work for more than one evening really (if you can accept constantly pulling them back up and that some stitching will go eventually). If you are the heavier type, I imagine that they'll creep down the arms quite easily since the arms run a bit small (in proportion with the hands). They are somewhat warm at least.

Also, no, they will NOT go over the elbow and a couple inches beyond unless you are on the short side. To the elbow and maybe just over that, yes, but that's it.

BTW, these are made of softly crushed velvet, not regular velvet or "normal" crushed velvet, so if you want that deep soft black of uncrushed velvet, these aren't for you.

If none of these are problems for you, then it's a pretty good product -- not particularly fancy, but better quality than a lot of costume gloves out there.