★ Driver Gloves | Imperial Plaid (Field-Tested)

★ Driver Gloves | Imperial Plaid, Field-Tested (FT): a purple pair with a plaid cuff. Extraordinary rank, with the star. The pair comes from the Clutch Case and the Revolution Case. The wear scale is cut off at the bottom and begins at 0.06, so only Factory New stretches up to 0.07.

What the ★ Driver Gloves | Imperial Plaid look like in Field-Tested

The whole pair is held in purple. Checked fabric of blue-purple squares with thin pink-red lines covers the back of the cuff. The red lines are thin, and the overall color stays purple. The fingers are glossy purple leather with perforation, and a blue scaly insert sits in the palm. Valve calls the pair flannel and leather, with an imperial tint.

Scuffing lands on the glossy leather of the fingers and on the fabric of the cuff. The 0.15 to 0.38 band on the ★ Driver Gloves | Imperial Plaid leaves room to choose: closer to 0.15 the copies are cleaner. Wear is fixed at the drop, and the listing screenshot shows the same look you will get in the game.

What to check before buying

What matters when buying the ★ Driver Gloves | Imperial Plaid:

• the float: the closer to 0.15, the cleaner the gloss on the fingers and the fabric of the cuff;


• the plaid cuff: it takes up most of the back of the hand, and the condition of the fabric is visible in the screenshot;


• the wear named in the listing: Well-Worn costs the same, with a difference of under three percent, so the float decides between the two.

What the ★ Driver Gloves | Imperial Plaid cost in Field-Tested

Of the twenty Driver Gloves finishes with a price in this wear, Imperial Plaid is ninth from the top: eight cost more and eleven cost less. Wave Chaser is higher by about a fifth, and Snow Leopard by 1.7 times. Below come King Snake, cheaper by less than a tenth, and Black Tie, cheaper by about a fifth. Racing Green is five times cheaper than Imperial Plaid.

Here is how the wear ladder runs around this one:

• Factory New: seven times as much;


• Minimal Wear: almost twice as much;


• Well-Worn: level with this wear;


• Battle-Scarred: cheaper by about a sixth.

Getting the ★ Driver Gloves | Imperial Plaid

The first case for the pair was the Clutch Case. Valve added the gloves from it to the Revolution Case on February 10, 2023, as the update note says. In both cases the pair is listed as a rare special item. The wear is random at the opening. A contract gives a rare special item for five Covert skins from one collection, but it does not promise a specific model or finish.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Driver Gloves | Imperial Plaid in Field-Tested makes sense under these conditions:

• you want a purple pair for a CS2 loadout, and the look of the plaid cuff matters more than gloss on the fingers;


• a sevenfold surcharge for Factory New is not needed;


• you want a finish from the middle of the Driver Gloves lineup, closer to its upper part.