I work in a laundry facility that washes primarily restaurant linens, cloth napkins, bar towels, cook shirts, table clothsaprons, and mechanics shop clothes. I need gloves, one, as a barrier against the nasty food, mold and what ever people spit into their napkins, and two, just to protect my hands from being rubbed raw from what amounts to an 8 hour rug burn on my finger tips. I'm sure most of you have wash a load of towels at home and know how the plaster themselves to the side of the machine during the spin cycle, and how it's rough on your fingers pulling them out. We'll, imagine emptying an industrial sized machine fill with over 700 pounds of bar towels 8 times in a shift. Needless to say no a good part of gloves are essential! My work provides us those knit gloves with the rubber dots on them, and they work now but if they last you a week, you're lucky. Well, they ran out and I was without glove for over a week and decided to just buy my own. I landed on these because of the price. $7.99 only to test and see how they would hold up, and I have not been disappointed in the least. I was worries because I didn't think the spandex along the sides of the fingers would hold up against the Rough bar towels, but so far so good. After 3 week, there's very little wear. I will absolutely be buying these gloves again. To give you some idea of the quality, my coworker is on his 4th pair of work issue gloves, since I got these CLC's!