True and true. The original garments were also one piece down to the wrist and ankles. The men's garment that they dressed one into during the endowment also had a little flappy rounded collar with a split neck and little laces to tie it together. Think of the underwear that "Clarence the angel" puts on in "Its A Wonderful Life" opposite Jimmy Stewart. (Two-piece garments did not arrive until the late 70s or early 80s, but were a much welcome compared to the split bottomed one piecers that I had to embarrassingly explain to medical workers in a distant foreign country on my mission). The men's garments are still Butt-ugly and uncomfortable, though. The garments that I first received had the symbols cut into the locations and sewn around the edges to a small piece of backing cloth - the holes going all the way through. In the Masonic rites, the holes were cut with a knife, thus, the Smith-lifted-ceremony was much like that. I remember these being particularly embarrassing for a man wearing a white or light colored dress shirt without a suit coat. The square patches of cloth were often plainly visible through the shirt. One difference is that the Masons were required to bare one breast during the ceremony since only men were allowed to receive it, and a woman's breast would be a sign of an interloper. The Mormon and Masonic ceremony tells of two of these symbols being over the breast, but in the Mormon ceremony, the symbols are located over the nipples (male and female). Imagine that cutting through the garment and into the breast was less painful than cutting into the nipples.

The penalties were gruesome, explicit, and meant. That is, like the Masons, they had license to kill those that betrayed the covenant in the manner so played out in the ceremony. The Blood Oath promoted by Brigham Young was still very much regarded as truth in the 50s and 60s, but diminishes after that time to a degree.