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- Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon. The Seattle Times
- One can go further south from here but we would need heated long johns to keep us warm, and we've seen enough icebergs for the time being.
- For sailing I would advise packing at least the same amount of clothes, thermals, jerseys and long johns again.
- Although the Mutton would never sanction wearing long johns as outer wear, they are peerless underwear for "weather events" such as the cold snap we have all endured of late.
- In January and February 1953 Hough's battalion endured a winter that made a mockery of their long johns, fleece-lined trousers, parkas, gloves and mittens. British veterans of Korean war: 'It was like stepping into medieval times'
- That irritating word 'bodywear' has been appended to the collection because it does stretch a little beyond the underwear zone; those waffled, knee-patched cotton long johns are particularly nice. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- The range is described as bodywear, rather than underwear, because it includes pyjama bottoms, wifebeater vests, long johns and T-shirts, all of which also look perfectly nice and pleasingly plain. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- During the normal in-flight routine the crew wore Teflon cloth flight coveralls over the long johns.
- You can certainly try mec.ca for the long johns, though; they ship pretty much everywhere, and have a range of cold weather clothing for everything from "a titch brisk" through "venturi effect wind at altitude". Making Light: Snowpocalypse Part Next
- Setting off from a Siberian London to balmy Long Beach California has been a process that matched the TED theme of "unveil" - off have come the snowjacket, hat, gloves, long johns Broadstuff
