salopettes

• “Among those risking romantic rejection and public humiliation is a ski instructor keen to propose in salopettes, a sailor who uses the word "babe" as punctuation, and a civil servant who stores his engagement ring in a laundry tablet dispersal bag.”

  The Guardian: It's a good week for … Romance

• “The coat cupboard has had an interim clearout: arctic boots, salopettes, woollen hats and a diverse selection of single children's gloves have gone to the attic.”

  The Guardian: Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom

• “It's freezing almost all of the time in Emmerdale, so I can only imagine the lapdancing bar is full of women shimmying erotically in bobble hats and thermal salopettes.”

  The Guardian: Grace Dent's World of lather

• “He's just been asked why, within months of becoming leader, David Cameron had donned salopettes to travel to the Arctic with huskies in a demonstration of a new leader with new values, but at a similar stage in his leadership Ed Miliband is at home in north London, new Timberland deck shoes sparkling, nowhere near the north pole but in a living room with a beautiful cream carpet the closest thing to snow.”

  The Guardian: Ed Miliband ? no huskies, no north pole, but he's in for the long haul

• “Black salopettes, matching waisted jacket with mink trim and even a jaunty co-ordinating fur toggle for my Grace Kelly ponytail.”

  How to look the part on the piste

• “Pk je veux ca? ben parce que j'adore les salopettes c tout!!”

  pinku-tk Diary Entry

• “There were thermals and salopettes, a jacket, a fleece and a dry suit, this being the critical bit of equipment that would keep us warm and enable us to float should we fall out of the boats.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “If you are a first-timer or a seasoned pro planning a trip to snowy climes this season, there is plenty to ensure that whether you end up spending your time on the bunny slopes, black runs or with a chocolat chaud and your tail between your legs in the chalet, you can do so in style and splendour rather than in a pair of ill-fitting hand-me-down salopettes.”

  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “Make like a snow leopard in the matching ski jacket, sweatshirt and salopettes - which meet high technical specifications to ensure that you don't sacrifice comfort for style.”

  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “A ski salopettes from the 1980s, this was look-at-me wear.”

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