History Main / KillerOutfit

* In Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit, Eddie Valiant interrogates R.K. Maroon by putting his tie in a film projector and continues running it until Maroon tells him what he wants to hear.

* Theatre/{{Medea}} killed her ex-husband's new wife this way: she sent her a poisoned dress who caught on fire when she wore it. The dress is so murderous, it killed two people: the poor wearer and the wearer's father, who tried to suffocate the flames and got engulfed in them instead.

* ''ComicBook/RulahJungleGoddess'': In "The Ice Beast" (''Zoot Comics'' #10), an evil witch doctor and an American engineer join forces to bury the jungle beneath a blizzard. When Rulah shuts off the machine, the snow melts and the jungle is engulfed by a massive flood. The witch doctor drown when he is dragged down by the heavy padded suit he was wearing to stave off the frigis cold of the blizzard.

* [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain For some unfathomable reason]], an Australian optometrist chain (probably run by some [[https://allpoetry.com/poem/16699140-Dilwid-by-Dav-Pond DILWIDs]] once ran a TV ad featuring a recreation of Isidora Duncan's death (see RealLife below) as part of a campaign to sell sunglasses.

* [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain For some unfathomable reason]], an Australian optometrist chain once ran a TV ad featuring a recreation of Isidora Duncan's death (see RealLife below) as part of a campaign to sell sunglasses.

* One of the early ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' issues, back in the days when it wasn't entirely Franchise/{{Superman}} stories, had a short story of a criminal who tried this to break out of prison by [[UndersideRide clinging to the underside of a truck]]. A pendant he was wearing got caught in a moving part and strangled him.

** #614: Dead on Arrival: A drug runner (who eerily looks like Creator/RussellBrand) tries to sneak LSD through an airport by absorbing it into his tie-dyed shirt. His perspiration causes the acid to get absorbed into his system, enough to fry his brain, but not before [[IntoxicationEnsues rambling and making a scene at airport security]].

* The obscure 1973 movie ''Film/{{Arnold}}'' has Creator/RoddyMcDowall's character killed by a suit that shrinks and strangles him (and possibly dismembers him, though we don't see that). An odd little [[http://www.angelfire.com/de3/kriegerg69a/arnold/arnoldindex.html fansite]] for the film has some stills of the death scene in question.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Till Death Do Us Part," the first VictimOfTheWeek is murdered when the killer tightens the laces of her corset to the point where her chest cannot expand enough for her to breathe and she asphyxiates.

* A belly dancer accidentally hung herself after throwing her scarf into the air, and getting caught on a ceiling fan.

* Mentioned in ''Literature/TheElenium'' as the reason why the Genidian Knights wear chainmail instead of the other orders' traditional platemail: a previous precentor tried to order them to align with the other orders. Thalesia has a lot of rivers, so the majority of the order refused, as platemail is a bit hard to remove when you're drowning. The precentor, in his platemail, and another knight in chainmail were dumped into a river. The latter shucked off the chainmail and swam to the surface. The former... didn't. They then elected their current precentor, who was smart enough not to suggest something so foolish.

** Another story had a criminal with a magnetized shard of metal lodged in his brain. He had to avoid close with metal in case it caused to shard to move and kill him. While escaping from Batman, he dashed into a crowd of theatregoers and snatched a top hat off one of them in an attempt to blend in and lose Batman. Unknown to him, the hat was a opera hat with a small spring inside to allow it to collapse. When he donned it, the spring caused the magnetic shard to move and killed him.

* In ''Weird Western Tales'' #17, ComicBook/JonahHex shoves a CorruptHick HangingJudge off a cliff. However, rather than falling to her death, she suffers a KarmicDeath when her scarf snags on a tree sticking out of the cliff and [[NooseCatch snaps her neck]].

* Dancer Isadora Duncan died when her long silk scarf caught in the rear wheel and axle of the car she was riding in, breaking her neck.

** #328: Treadkilled: An overweight [[ThePeepingTom Peeping Tom]] spies on his good-looking neighbor while running on a treadmill. He accidentally cranks up the speed, falls, and gets [[KillerOutfit his hoodie's drawstrings caught in the treadmill, choking him]].

* In ''Literature/AngelsOfMusic'', KnifeNut Rollo wears a BadassLongcoat lined with dozens of knives so he always has a blade to hand. He dies when Erik grabs the coat and pulls it tight around him; causing him to be stabbed by dozens of his own knives.

* In ''Weird Western Tales'' #17, ComicBook/JonahHex shoves a CorruptHick HangingJudge off a cliff. However, rather than falling to her death, she suffers a KarmicDeath when her scarf snags on a tree sticking out of the cliff and snaps her neck.

** Another golden age story was about [[SiblingsInCrime three outlaw brothers]] who all wore chainmail {{Bulletproof Vest}}s. Two of them die as a result of the vests. One is knocked overboard and drowns when the vest drags him down, and the second is crushed when his vest is caught by the electromagnet in a scrapyard. (The third brother, who never wanted to a criminal, suffers RedemptionEqualsDeath when he removes his vest and uses it to patch a broken power line so a surgeon can finish an operation, only to be shot by a vengeful gang member.)

* ''Series/NewTricks'': In "Death by Chocolate'', Gerry is almost killed when his sleeve snags on a ConveyorBeltODoom in the chocolate factory and it starts to drag him into a chopping machine. He manages to escape by [[GivingThemTheStrip taking off his jacket]].