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For a jacket without a front strap, the most common way to escape is to hoist the arms over the head before undoing the crotch strap and at last the strap at the back of the neck. This allows the jacket to simply be peeled off upward over the head. The straitjacket escape was popularized by Houdini, who "discovered" it.
Such items include hard hats, safety vests, life jackets, aprons, hairnets, and steel-toe boots. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, there was some controversy in some southern U.S. states over the wearing of trousers so low as to expose the underwear . The practice was banned in some places.
The restraint jacket was finally removed, and Morris was placed back on oxygen after being restrained for “approximately an hour and a half or 90 minutes,” the complaint says.
US LIFESTYLE: The growing popularity of menswear fashion has women ditching crop tops for shoulder pads. But why are men still bothered by a woman dressed in a loose-fitted suit? Kaleigh Werner
Strait-Jacket, a 1964 Columbia Pictures film starring Joan Crawford; Straight-Jacket, a 2004 gay-themed romantic comedy film; Strait Jacket, a 2007 Japanese video series based on the novel series, produced by Feel
The first green jacket was awarded to a winner when Sam Snead won the tournament for the first time in 1949, to make him an honorary member. It was then awarded to all past champions retroactively.
Webster's has straitjacket and straightjacket; Random House has straitjacket and strait-jacket; OED has strait jacket and strait waistcoat. Though an etymological error, I suppose straightjacket is inevitable, because the thing keeps you straight. If anyone rewords this, remember that alternate forms of the article title are also bolded.
Matthew Todd is a British writer, editor, and occasional stand-up comedian.He is the author of Straight Jacket - Overcoming Society's Legacy of Gay Shame, [1] a non-fiction title published by Bantam Press in June 2016 and the play Blowing Whistles which has been performed in London, Australia and the United States.