Abstract: A protective gauntlet connectable to a sleeve of a protective garment (and a garment secured to a gauntlet), including a protective flexible glove member including a cuff, a stiff cuff member disposed inside the cuff, the glove member cuff and the cuff member being securable in an end of the garment sleeve, and a collar having a small end and a large end. The collar small end is impermeably secured at one end about the glove member and the collar large end projects over at least a portion of the glove member cuff and the cuff member without connecting to the sleeve.