They sat in their straitjackets for meals at one of the long tables, and their throats were massaged to make them swallow, as if touch could provide some clue to the name and nature of their bodies.
For Buffy studies scholar Rhonda Wilcox, The Gentlemen and their straitjacket-wearing minions, who clumsily flap, gyrate, and crouch as they move, are representative of class disparity and patriarchy: The Gentlemen, with their Victorian suits, move effortlessly to accomplish what they set out to do while their minions, whom Whedon called "footmen", do the "dirty work".
That's what modern Latin cooking is all about, simultaneously respecting traditions and breaking free of their straitjackets.
Only at the one-minute mark, at the start of verse two, does the rhythm section come in, after which the instruments begin to "break out of their metronomic straitjacket to attain an almost ecstatic release", as Beatles Forever author Nicholas Schaffner put it in 1977.
History is littered with actors who've been pushed to extreme measures to break out of their typecasting straitjackets.
And as so many of the homeless end up with mental-health problems, they'll be helped out with a scheme to buy their own straitjackets.
Society may say that it's wrong for millions of straight men to break free from their macho straitjackets to enjoy succulent, meaty oral sex for 24 hours.
Sorting through the accusations is a burden for schools, especially when state laws straitjacket their response to a bullying accusation, rather than allowing them to use their judgment and take account of context.
At the other end of the political spectrum, liberal Democrats have become increasingly uncomfortable with the straitjacket their party has put itself in.
Yet the siren-like Mr Lafontaine tried to woo the SPD in an interview this week, saying that, if certain conditions were met, such as the minimum wage and pulling German troops out of Afghanistan, "Beck can be chancellor tomorrow .As panic rises, the SPD rank and file may come to see this as an appealing way out of their party's straitjacket.
