and accordingly easy and inexpensive to fabricate the frontal and rear portions 10 and 20 can be a simple contour that unlike a glove or mitten for permitting manual manipulation functions need not be anthropomorphic the portions moveover and the manner in which the portions are joined need not be shaped or formed to accommodate the front to back asymmetry of the flexure of the human hand indeed the two portions can be cut or otherwise formed so as to have identical and symmetrical geometry side to side and front to back the device may nevertheless have a preferred orientation in particular frontal portion 10 is intended to correspond to the palm of the wearer 39 s hand while rear portion 20 is intended to correspond to the back of the wearer 39 s hand since the geometry of the device is preferably symmetric front to back as well as side to side the preferred orientation may be expressed through different choices as to materials colors and images to be used on each side for instance the front and back portions can be of different colors or even different fabrics or other materials as another example the frontal portion 10 can be of a breathable mesh fabric while the rear portion 20 which may be exposed to the sun 39 s rays for longer periods of time than the frontal portion 10 can be of higher opacity frontal portion 10 and rear portion 20 of the illustrated embodiment of the device 50 according to the present invention may include more than one layer of material for example a lighter more decorative material may be supported by a stiffer and heavier though less decorative material to enable the.