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Help me - I’m trapped in a Seasalt jumpsuit

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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.

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Frownette · 12/07/2021 00:39

Your pride is at stake, to be frank. When I've got stuck in something in the past there was not a cat's chance in hell I was calling the fire brigade before I had defeated it, no matter how long it took.

Oh well at least you're out now. Put it on again with trepidation and reinforcements!

MrsBobDylan · 11/07/2021 23:54

Am relived you got free op.

I think this is a feminist issue - I now want to establish if any man has ever been stuck in a pair of boxers, trousers, t-shirt etc? If not, why not?

I think there is a conspiracy to suppress women via clothes.

I felt very suppressed in that dress, in fact like a pp, I nearly suffocated under the weight of Phase Eight wedding-quality fabric, wrapped around my head like a condom.

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FitYeDaeinYeMadRadge · 11/07/2021 23:19

There are so many of us getting stuck. At least I only had the dog to worry about…for those concerned for her, she has fully recovered. The jumpsuit is hanging on the back of the door trying to convince me to keep it. Siobhan, I’m blaming you and will be applying for the next Pottery Showdown.

But this is happening to good people in public. I propose something like a bat signal to flash when someone is in clothing distress. Not a bat logo but a Treen Cove jumpsuit shape. A team of sympathetic, skilled quick unpickers will come to the rescue with a stiff drink and similar tales of woe to lessen the pain.

villainousbroodmare I dare say I would have been spurred on by a price tag like that. Although you scared me a little bit. Imagine ending up in the Darwin Awards over a fancy frock….

MrsBobDylan I’m not going to lie. You and your poor knickers. Priority shout for the bat signal team.

NorthernLurker jersey ones only for me after this. I can’t thank you enough. Inspired technique.

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Sunnycats · 11/07/2021 22:18

This thread has made me laugh OP! I am always contorting into all kinds of crazy positions to get out of junpsuits!

Northernlurker · 11/07/2021 22:08

The jersey ones are pretty good. No contortion needed. I was thinking of wearing mine tomorrow but it's day three of my period in my mid forties. Can I be bothered? Nope

SigrunGard · 11/07/2021 21:41

@museumum- I have a Next one that zips down only to the waist. Similar contortions needed to get it on or off.

No wonder it was on EBay as “only worn once”….

PickAChew · 11/07/2021 21:33

@MauveMavis

Just checking you undid all the buttons on the front?

I have two of the jersey sea salt ones - super comfy and always get positive comments even though I'm the size of a small whale.

Jersey and woven linen are very different beasts!

happystrummer · 11/07/2021 21:28

MrsMoastyToasty

I got trapped in an M&S sports bra once...

Yes me too a few weeks ago...got a front doing up one as I have a frozen shoulder and it was meant to be the easy option. Took a coat hanger and 40 minutes of wriggling

museumum · 11/07/2021 20:57

I have a gap one that’s tricky to get out of. Buttons only go down to the waist, no lower so if you can imagine trying to take your coat off with the bottom of the zip still done up, that’s what it’s like. I have to wriggle my shoulders like crazy and contort one arm while simultaneously pulling it up and giving myself a massive wedgie.
It’s honestly not even slightly tight when on, the next size up would be like a sack!

Mummyoflittledragon · 11/07/2021 20:53

@MrsBobDylan

MrsBobDylan · 11/07/2021 20:48

Sorry, didn't offer any advice there op - are you still stuck?

MrsBobDylan · 11/07/2021 20:46

I got stuck in a Phase Eight structured dress in a changing room years ago. I couldn't get it over my hips so I pulled it up from the hem.

It got stuck at the point where my arms were reaching up to the ceiling, my face was enveloped in dress and my grey baggy knickers with un-modified bush poking out the sides were entirely exposed.

I had to call the sales assistant in. I have never quite recovered.

Sexnotgender · 11/07/2021 20:38

@TheOrigRights

I helped a random lady into a wetsuit the other week. She was on her own and fighting valiantly to do it up herself. I figured it’d be nice to help!

Goodness, getting OUT of wetsuits is usually more challenging than getting it on. The poor woman is probably stuck in it FOR EVER now!

I hope not 😂

TheOrigRights · 11/07/2021 20:30

I helped a random lady into a wetsuit the other week. She was on her own and fighting valiantly to do it up herself. I figured it’d be nice to help!

Goodness, getting OUT of wetsuits is usually more challenging than getting it on. The poor woman is probably stuck in it FOR EVER now!

misscockerspaniel · 11/07/2021 20:28

Ozziewozzie I hope that "fluff" wasn't a euphemism .

I also had an incident with one of those M&S body smoothing things. It got stuck over my raised arms and head and I thought I was going to suffocate.

Thank you Op, this thread has really made me laugh. Mind you, I have had a look at the Seasalt site and am quite tempted.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 11/07/2021 20:23

I once got stuck in a Next top in the change rooms. There was no one else in the change rooms and he could hear familiar sweary muttering. He nipped in (I was in the first one) to find me with both arms in the air like a polyester bondage outfit. He got me out eventually and I stomped out to find the assistant who asked “was it ok?” DH dragged me out before I exploded.
But one expects better from Seasalt.

MauveMavis · 11/07/2021 19:38

Just checking you undid all the buttons on the front?

I have two of the jersey sea salt ones - super comfy and always get positive comments even though I'm the size of a small whale.

TitsInAbsentia · 11/07/2021 19:34

@DannyNedelko

It's only difficult to take off the first time. Next time will be much easier. Give it a go and let us know how you get on.

Next time? NEXT TIME?! What kind of mad savage are you?! She's not going in there again unless a few ribs have been removed surely

Passthecake30 · 11/07/2021 19:32

I got stuck in a basque once, the changing room got hotter and hotter, I must’ve expanded in the heat. There was an almighty riiiiiiip noise before I was finally out

woodhill · 11/07/2021 19:27

@ginghamstarfish

Don't understand the love for jumpsuits. They look nice but don't you basically have to get naked just to go for a wee? The thought of doing that in public toilets and trying to keep it off the floor ..

Yes and having a cold back n Winter

Maria1982 · 11/07/2021 19:26

Oh gosh this made me laugh!! Then I looked up the Sea salt jumpsuit and I started feeling very claustrophobic just looking at it!! I can see how you would get stuck. The horrors

villainousbroodmare · 11/07/2021 19:23

I nearly died in a Coast changing room in a phenomenally inflexible satin dress with a stiff bodice. I remember standing there with my head in my armpit, one arm pinned upwards and trying to see the price tag. It was £240, which somehow gave me the impetus I needed to wrench my way out...

66babe · 11/07/2021 19:17

@FitYeDaeinYeMadRadge

Fellow jock but I'm the rough end 😂

ButterflyWitch · 11/07/2021 19:17

@Hoppinggreen

Lube and a fish slice?

Sexnotgender · 11/07/2021 19:16

@Wombat36

Got trapped in a wetsuit once, I feel your pain. 😎

I helped a random lady into a wetsuit the other week. She was on her own and fighting valiantly to do it up herself. I figured it’d be nice to help!

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