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Help me - I’m trapped in a Seasalt jumpsuit

233 replies

FitYeDaeinYeMadRadge · 11/07/2021 16:57

It’s the Treen Cove one, I’ve lusted after it since Siobhan wore it on Pottery Showdown. It went on with no issues, looks lovely, fits well and is flattering but…..

I’m stuck in the bloody thing. It’s been an hour and I can’t even free an arm despite unbuttoning it down as far as it will go.

Has anyone got this jumpsuit? Can you give me any tips on how to get out of it? I reckon I have about 2 hours before I need the loo.

Perhaps I should have gone for a size bigger for wiggle room knowing what I know now. I’m just going to post myself down to Seasalt HQ and let them deal with it.

OP posts:
AnnieSnap · 13/07/2021 23:33

@mineofuselessinformation

I had this problem with the top of a tankini earlier on - the bastard rolled up like a sausage, and there was no shifting it upwards. (And I am not large in the nork department before you ask.) Luckily, down was a viable option! Grin
I have discovered that pulling them on like a skirt is the best way to deal with a tankini stop. I learned the hard way of course!
GrrrlPwr · 13/07/2021 22:03

I have never been able to do up a bra at the back! Front and swivel for me.
Sports bras are an utter nightmare. I just don't even think about ones that are joined at the shoulder blades, and bra clasp at normal part of your back.

I did get a front fastening m&s one. Fine until the zip broke. Luckily LUCKILY it broke at home.

Front fastening Primark sports bra much better design- has a little teeny strap thing that connects under the front zip. So if the zip was to break you don't explode out of it.

Ended up with a triumph sports bra in a regular bra style. Pretty much nothing moves and I can get it on & off. Better than stuck with arms squashed up by ears!

woodhill · 13/07/2021 20:42

Oh, tankini tops are the work of the devil especially when wet and you are trying to take it off in shower

mineofuselessinformation · 13/07/2021 20:35

I had this problem with the top of a tankini earlier on - the bastard rolled up like a sausage, and there was no shifting it upwards. (And I am not large in the nork department before you ask.)
Luckily, down was a viable option! Grin

Mercedes519 · 13/07/2021 15:52

Reminds me of this story from Bridget Fonda

www.bustle.com/p/jane-fonda-slept-in-her-red-carpet-gown-because-she-couldnt-get-it-off-its-honestly-so-relatable-7921525

I've been to black tie events on my own from a hotel. Had to get someone in the loos to zip up my dress and remembered (thankfully) to ask someone at the event to unzip it before I put my coat on before I left the event!!

ItsVousNotMoi · 13/07/2021 15:23

We need a diagram

Deathraystare · 13/07/2021 13:24

I shouldn't laugh but I am (evil). I like the look of jumpsuits BUT as I am incontinent they are a big no no for me.

Romney981 · 13/07/2021 08:50

Are you free yet? Did you have to sleep in it?

66babe · 13/07/2021 08:07

Can I just add also that since going online to examine said offending item
I now am being emailed daily with gorgeous Seasalt clothing !
🤣

Ddot · 13/07/2021 07:11

Seasalt if your reading this, please put button opening on shoulders. (escape hatch needed) 🤣🤣🤣🤣

ErrolTheDragon · 12/07/2021 23:43

Excellent thread, OP.
I'm quite glad you didn't do what I immediately thought to, which was to look at the reviews...
Gorgeous but tricky
Bought for warmer days so haven’t had the chance to wear this gorgeous jumpsuit properly yet.
Tried it on and fit is great and quite slimming (I’m a petite 16)but boy was it tricky to get out of!Thankfully no^ one saw my impression of Mr Bean fighting an octopus!^
That said I love it way too much to send back and sure to find a way to get out of it even if I need to find a seamstress to alter it.
• 27th March 2021

ALongHardWinter · 12/07/2021 23:17

Sorry,I've nothing helpful to say OP as I've never worn a jumpsuit in my life, but your post made me laugh! Grin.

ChubbyLittleManInACampervan · 12/07/2021 22:56

Or both Grin

I have a really sexy nighty, lace top amd silk bottom half. Once in, it does not come off again though, which kind of defeats the purpose

10 yrs on I still have not brought myself to throw it away Shock or wear it again Hmm

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FitYeDaeinYeMadRadge · 12/07/2021 22:27

Oh my, I for one, am very glad I’m not alone. So many cloth/lacy/sequinny human traps out there. But for those who are in retail….does the shop/head office just write it off when you get the scissors out to free us?

SingleHandSue that is some image I have in my head Grin

It’s still looking at me. I half expect the nasty shoe maker from The Red Shoes to look at me, look at it and all of a sudden I’ll be buttoned back into it and made to twirl til I’m dead. Or wee myself. Whichever comes first.

OP posts:
BestIsWest · 12/07/2021 22:08

@Justsaynonow

For those struggling with shoulder issues and bras:
  1. turn a back fastening bra back to front so the fastening is in front
  2. fasten the hooks
  3. turn it back around so the fastening is in the back
  4. slip your arms through the straps and slip them over your shoulders.

Always put it on weak side first, and remove the weak side last - that goes for any article of clothing

I didn’t have the strength to do the turning back round - I lived in very stretchy bras for the best part of three years.

I also tried the Molke bra and had to be rescued by my DD.

MarianneUnfaithful · 12/07/2021 22:06

I’m just going to post myself down to Seasalt HQ and let them deal with it

Grin

I once got stuck in between the linking and the dress, and with my arms through the wrong bit in Jigsaw.

My head was inside the dress and I was all muffled and my arms were trapped so I couldn’t open the cubicle door.

I had to shout for an assistant.

All so undignified.

Craftycorvid · 12/07/2021 22:04

@SingleHandSue there are maybe worse things to find yourself stuck in in a sex shop...,I’ll get me coat.....

failingmammalian · 12/07/2021 21:45

Posts like this make me love mumsnet even more xx

TheOrigRights · 12/07/2021 21:13

@Needcoffeecoffeecoffee

I've done it too last week. Think that was a sea salt one. Non stretchy material. I had to call dh to help who wasnt too happy as he was working. But my other alternative was to sit in meetings with my arms stuck slightly behind me and boobs on showBlush
Grin That's such a funny mental image - trying to style it out while discussing last years accounts.
LookItsMeAgain · 12/07/2021 21:10

I bought this lingerie set from Primark recently -
www.primark.com/en-ie/all-products/womenswear/clothing/underwear/matching-sets/black-lace-bralette-set/p/131292334
and I managed to get the top part on but it was a bit of a squeeze (I really shouldn't have progressed past my shoulders getting it on) because when I tried to take it off, I just couldn't. It would not go back over my head!
I ended up having to cut it off as I was not going to call one of my kids to help me (I might have asked DH but he was working one of the few days per week he works in the office and not at home).
I had quite the aerobic workout trying to take it off me but I couldn't contort myself into whatever position was required to get my boobs free and then get the skimpy material back over my head.

Angrywife · 12/07/2021 20:29

@Needcoffeecoffeecoffee

I've done it too last week. Think that was a sea salt one. Non stretchy material. I had to call dh to help who wasnt too happy as he was working. But my other alternative was to sit in meetings with my arms stuck slightly behind me and boobs on showBlush
I'm crying laughing at that 🤣
66babe · 12/07/2021 20:25

Sex shop ! @SingleHandSue
That's got to be the best one yet !
🤣🤣🤣🤣

33feethighandrising · 12/07/2021 20:22

I got stuck in a posh frock in Debenhams changing room. The zip got stuck.

I tried to call my friends who were in the shopping centre but there was no signal.

I eventually had to ask the sales assistant for help, she couldn't get the zip to budge either so she went and got a MASSIVE pair of scissors and a colleague and cut me out Blush

TestingTestingWonTooFree · 12/07/2021 20:22

I got stuck in a sequinned evening dress in a changing room once. I wrestled with it for about 20 minutes, rubbed my inner arms red raw on the sequins and had visions of having to buy the bloody thing even though I didn’t like it and wear it around a shopping centre. In the end I managed to get out and then found the concealed zip.

SingleHandSue · 12/07/2021 20:20

I once got stuck in a corset in a sex shop Blush

I had a Halloween party to go to and had my heart set on a sexy morticia look. Nowhere else sold them so I took myself off to a sex shop. There were no changing rooms so the helpful assistant said I could use the staff room as there was a mirror behind the door.

It took me ages to do up and then I realised I couldn’t reach the hooks to undo it so I tried to wriggle through the lacing.

I was well and truly stuck when the young lad knocked on the door to check I was alright.

I panicked that he thought I was trying to nick stuff out of bags so threw open the door.

He was quite shocked to see my tits half out which is odd really when you think he works in a sex shop.

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