Thanks for the feedback and kind words.
I chose green gloves because green is a good complimentary color to red. And the red looked odd with the blue, and needed something to make it stand out a little better. Also, I pictured the gloves as being utilitarian rather than decorative, and when I think "utilitarian", I think green.
There are a number of things I don't like about my paintjob (the sword hilt absolutely sucks), and in the old days I would have compulsively fixed them. The green gloves are actually in this list of things I would have fixed. Nowadays, however, I'm just satisfied to have taken a paintjob so far.