O. J. Simpson had little trouble fitting into another pair of extra-large leather gloves today, a mint version of the bloodied, wrinkled Aris Isotoners he struggled to put on last week. But even before Mr. Simpson eased into the brand new gloves, his chief lawyer called the demonstration "bogus," noting that 995 out of every 1,000 American men could wear the same gloves.

After a prolonged debate over where the defendant would stand, what he could say and whether he would make faces, Mr. Simpson, a sardonic smile on his face, hunkered over to the jury. Then, in contrast to last week, when he wrestled to don the gloves the police found shortly after his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald L. Goldman were killed, he slipped into the new pair, sent overnight from a factory in the Philippines, flexing his fingers freely.

"I think he did quite well," said Richard Rubin, the former Aris executive who was recalled to the stand today. "It is a little on the snug side, since they had never been tried on before, but basically he was able to get them over his hands, tugging at them a little bit. They appeared to fit him snug and tight, pretty much the way the gloves were designed."

Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who heads the defense team, spent the beginning of the day trying to keep the demonstration from happening, maintaining that the cashmere-lined gloves were either too different from the originals, too pristine, too stretched out by others who had tried them on, or too inexactly sized. "We're just spinning our wheels because they want to end on some kind of high note," he said, at one time likening the display to a "modeling show."