Anyone got any ideas for how to get out of this strait jacket??? Help!!!

[ilovecherries]

Cold day, decided it would be lovely to get out the velvet puffa. Except I got my tee shirt in the zip. After 30 mins struggle during which I had the hot flush to end all hot flushes, I knocked on my neighbours door and she cut the tee shirt off me at the shoulders and pulled the whole mess off like a pair of trousers. So the tee shirt is already toast but not sure how to save the jacket? It just won’t budge in either direction.

Just keep cutting and pulling until it's all gone. What a nightmare!

I’m not sure about cutting and losing all the purchase to tension on the tee. I need a cup of tea till I’m calm enough to try. Neighbour thought it was hilarious but I got completely panicked and sweaty :(

I imagine that when you've got rid of some of it then you might be able to jam the zip up/down to get rid of the rest.

Cup of tea first.
Then cut it really really really close to the zip and unravel it slowly thread by thread.

Allow yourself to take the length of a movie

Take it to a local sewing type place, otherwise you'll probably kill the jacket too.
(Btw, is it bad that I laughed?)

I once got the zip stick on a pair of upvc over knee boots that I’d tried on for a laugh in a shop. I can empathise with you panicky sweatiness. The sweat was very unhelpful in my case.

Success. Can’t believe how stressful that was till I got it off.

Tee shirt was new today as well!