Alpaca is a warm material and these lightweight gloves being fingerless is a great feature when it's not bitter cold outside and worn alone. They're also great because you can wear them underneath warm mittens if finger coverage needed and then remove the mitten to quickly open a doggie poop bag -- generally need your bare fingers to do that -- keeping the rest of your hands warm. Also, read another review that they were too small/tight for someone with large hands...well, I have large, long hands and these fit my hands just fine. Since they seem to be hand made, and knitting to size isn't a perfect science in some places, if they don't fit then exchange them for another pair and see if those work better.
