The old white flying gloves were pretty robust, as I recall.
Except for the time that some procurement idiot thought that the leather of 'Cape Leather' gloves came from nasty apartheid Seth Efrikan Cape of Good Hope animals. Or perhaps from bits snipped off prisoners in Robben Island jails by those nice BOSS people. That would never do - HM's procurement buying stuff from that regime...
So instead we started getting pale grey gloves made from who knows what. Etruscan goat scrotums or something - they didn't last 5 minutes before ripping. Fortunately sanity soon prevailed and we went back to the original supplier!