Straitjacket Links

• The Duchy It has detailed instructions for making your own straitjacket. They also sell "custom-fitted steel restraints".
• Jim Stewart's Houdini Connections site. This is a collection by a great pioneer in restraint play. He has also made and designed several of the restraints on this site.
• A site with some of David Page's work. A quote from the artist's statement page:

  The Work also plays on our fears, desires and societal and sexual taboos. I intend it to be darkly whimsical and even elegant. Because these costumes and apparatus are designed to be worn or occupied, there is a tension between the piece when it is inhabited, and when it is exhibited without a human presence, which for practical purposes is how most people encounter it. In that case many of the pieces have a hollowed out look and feel to them, bearing the imprint of the last occupant.

• Google Print
  • straitjacket
  • "strait jacket"
  • "strait waistcoat"
• Google Video
  • Straitjacket
  • Strait Jacket
  • Straightjacket (Incorrect spelling)
  • Straight Jacket (Incorrect spelling)
• Michael Franzen's Straitjacketpage page. Mostly in German.
• The Straitjacket Floats The exciting world of straitjacket fashion.
• A description on the correct spelling for straitjacket (not straight jacket).
• Archived discussions from an magicians discussion group on straitjacket escapes.
• A medical bondage site
• Yahoo groops.
  Must have a free Yahoo id to access the club.
  • Yahoo Straitjackets Club,
  • German straitjacket (Zwangsjacken) group.
• The Bipolar Teddy at Toxic Teddies.
• Gillen Industries "is [a designer of straitjacket] alternatives and patient restraint devices".
• Check out the Straitjacket Diary by jrlaredo on youtube.

Thanks Yossie, for hosting my page at blacksteel.com