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Shoulder strap

strip of leather, cloth, or other material passing over the shoulder, to support a garment or hang an object. Military shoulder straps are part of jackets to fasten shoulder marks or shoulder loops

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ1973949 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shoulder strap may refer to:

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Shoulder strap” is strip of leather, cloth, or other material passing over the shoulder, to support a garment or hang an object. Military shoulder straps are part of jackets to fasten shoulder marks or shoulder loops. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Shoulder, strap and strip, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 5-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Shoulder, strap and strip is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “strip of leather, cloth, or other material passing over the shoulder, to support a garment or hang an object. Military shoulder straps are part of jackets to fasten shoulder marks or shoulder loops” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1973949. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shoulder strap”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shoulder strap primary sources, Shoulder strap archive and Shoulder research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Shoulder strap” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.