Cvillestyle poll: Hot or not?

I recently visited my fun and fashionable best friend in the equally fun and fantastic town of Nashville, TN.  While the city received a big (cowboy) hats off for a great time, I was somewhat perplexed with a few of the fashion choices displayed by our southern comrades.  Most perplexing was this:  

The fingerless glove.  A.k.a. Hobo gloves.  They are apparently all the rage.  They caught my eye because just about everyone I saw was wearing them, and I got the distinct pleasure of the wool/cashmere/skin combo whilst being introduced to some of the natives.  I can’t decide if it’s a no-no like this or if I really like it.  What do you think?

The boring practical person within says:  If it’s cold enough to wear gloves, why leave your finger tips unprotected?  They suffer the most from potential frost bite and compromised blood flow.  A designer using common sense would design phalange covers, and leave the palms to battle unprotected against the elements.

The impractical, impulse-buying, non-tights-wearing-in-30-degree-weather-just-to-look-good-in-my-hot-new-dress person within says:  Totally rad!  Here are some more styles.  

Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, and other fierce designers have also jumped on the bandwagon.  So have a lot of stitch-and-bitch fans.  

What say you, cvillestyle readers?  Yea or nay?  And why?