FILSON RAIN JACKET 'ENHANCED'
Heavy work gear and tough rain-proof stuff has always turned me on. Especially when worn in the rugged outdoors, the heat-producing restrictive feeling always gives me a buzz. Add to that some means of locking the wearer into heavy clothes and boots making them impossible to remove, and the juices really start to flow.

There are lots of descriptions of motorcycle gear on this site, but Carhart or Filson canvas work-wear has it's own special appeal and some useful properties. This seriously well-constructed clothing is easily modified for alternative kinky enjoyment without the fact being obvious when worn in public.

If it appeals to you, enjoy following text and photos.

Restrictive even before modifications are made, such gear is bulky enough to hide extra inhibitors when added under or over it. A few extra belt-loops sewn or riveted on to prevent straps sliding out of position, are a simple task for even modestly creative game-players. Internally or externally, innocent-looking extra loops on a regular work coat or suit need not look out of place. Well-anchored loops can have a variety of uses, especially when a few lockable straps are on hand to make the garment impossible to remove when the time is right. Games, whether out-doors or at home around the house and garden, can vary according to taste (or lack of it).

Filson Inc:
My favourite oiled canvas rain jacket is part of the regular range from the Seattle company Filson, who have made protective work gear for use around the forests of north west America since 1897. Bought for me by an imaginative Bondage Buddy, this short jacket has seen some inconspicuously unusual use out on the Yorkshire Moors and around the streets of London without looking out of place. Made of what is known as Tin Cloth because of the durability of the fabric, Filson prepare their heavy cotton duck by soaking it in paraffin wax. Stiff when new, it soon takes on a lived-in look and softens down while remaining thick and bulky. The British and Australian waxed cotton rain wear is similar but perhaps not as strongly constructed.

The Filson Packer Coat (style 61) is quite short but useful as a regular rain jacket because I indulged myself in getting a pair of pants in the same fabric (not shown in the pictures). My subtle modifications to both garments allow them to be fully locked on. With the keys to lockable straps and padlocks safely tucked away in somebody else's pocket when we're out together, and even further out of reach if I'm driven out and left to make my own way home unable to open the jacket or attached hood, and passers-by are non the wiser.

Easy Modifications:
Extra belt-loops to thread straps through can be made of ordinary canvas, webbing strap or leather. They can be riveted in position if a small tab of extra reinforcement is added behind the rivet inside the garment. Positioned at sides and back at waist level (The Filson jacket is not belted) a sturdy belt does not look out of place because it stops the bulky fabric getting in the way when working. The fact that the belt may, on occasions, be pad-locked need not be obvious. A second set of belt-loops high on the body under the arms can keep a strap around the chest from slipping. This adds a great feeling of restriction and can look logical on a serious work garment if it's wearer might be on their way to fell a tree or dig a ditch.

Strap loops can be usefully added either inside or outside cuffs. Unlike many foul-weather jackets which have a double cuff to keep wind and rain out, Filson jackets have completely double-skinned sleeves (in effect two sleeves, one inside the other). Strap-loops added to the inner cuff allows for lockable wrist straps (perhaps with rings incorporated as attachment points). These straps are neatly hidden from general view by the outer cuff. Gloves or mitts can be added over these, perhaps long enough to disappear between the inner and outer sleeve ends. Innocent-looking mitts can be made even more restrictive with thick gloves inside maybe even with gloved fingers splinted and taped so fingers won't bend. Alternatively, inside the bulky sleeves, semi-rigid elbow splints can make it impossible for the jacket-wearer to open the jacket even if it hasn't been made lockable with small rings and padlocks at neck and wrists.

Strap loops on the outside of a rugged work-garment collar do not look out of place. Being able to add a leather lockable collar strap on suitable occasions can have great advantages in restraint game-playing. The Filson jacket has a sturdy wrap-over collar flap which is, in itself, restrictive. A simple pair of small rings added behind this storm collar regularly have a locked padlock on my jacket when I'm out in public even if the key is in my own pocket. The psychological effect of a jacket being locked-on is powerful. Because extreme restraint turns me on, I have also added loops on the sleeves just above elbow height to retain a strap around body and arms or when elbows are strapped together in back. Another useful modification is several small innocuous-looking loops around the hem of the jacket. These provide for rope to be tightened through the crotch to prevent the jacket riding up in a high wind (grin). The through-crotch roping also keeps the heavy-duty collar and hood (see below) firmly in position. Outdoors it doesn't look out of place while walking or working.

If the locked-on waist belt has workman-like looking rings attached, they make it look like a Linesman's belt and allow locked-on mitts or hidden cuff straps to be attached around the waist strait-jacket fashion or wrists to be tethered to either side of the belt or in back when the opportunity occurs.

Filson jacket modified as strait-jacket:
With a little ingenuity a regular store-bought tough jacket can be more seriously modified while still not causing comment when seen in public. The double-skinned sleeves of the Filson design are literally two separate layers of fabric.

(above) The lengthened sleeve, can be concealed in between two thicknesses of sleeve.

Alternatively, (below) a discrete inner locking wrist strap and padlocked collar-front means the jacket stays on while doing garden chores. (click for cuff close-up)

Two 'D' rings on each sleeve-end can be linked with a strap strait-jacket fashion.

 

Belt loops for lockable waist-strap can add to the predicament