Bite proof clothing

[togonkd2]

Spray on Plasti- dip will also put a nice coat of unbiteable rubber on whatever you spray it on.
Plastic-Dip is the same rubber stuff people put on their tool handles to avoid the tool from slipping from your hand.
I sprayed some on my gloves and wow they are flexible and no you cant poke a fork thru it.

http://www.plastidip.com/

[SeaDog]

It would be cool to have a bite proof condum.

[Matt17]

I don't think that there I such things ask bite proof clothes just clothes that will stall a zombie let's face it if you have full armor and just stand there a zombie will just keep trying to bite you untill he does so you need clothing that is not to heavy it will slow you down but is strong enuf to protect you so you can kill that zombie

[Bravokilo17]

Curious to know, are Vietnam era flak jackets durable enough to protect from bites and scratches?

yes a flak jacket will, the problem is they only cover chest region, i personally would weara wet suit under regular BDU's (the combination will protect from dog bites, and kevlar lined leather gloves,

[Úlfhéðinn]

Almost all options fail under mob like conditions. Unless you are wearing a 1 piece suit, your clothing/armor can snag and get you hung up and more importantly, can be pulled apart and jackets/shirts can be pulled up etc, exposing bare skin. Weather permitting, a 1 piece suit is the best option. http://www.motorcycleapparel.net/mercha ... 505423-ATT
Something along those lines. Its even 100 percent waterproof so it will be a fluid barrier for blood etc. It can also be hosed off and cleaned easily. Your best gear will be useless and dangerous if soaked with contaminants such as zombie fluids. I would also duct tape the suit closed at wrists and ankles and heavy duty duct tape such as gorilla tape can be used to reinforce any clothing.

[KnightoftheRoc]

Almost all options fail under mob like conditions. Unless you are wearing a 1 piece suit, your clothing/armor can snag and get you hung up and more importantly, can be pulled apart and jackets/shirts can be pulled up etc, exposing bare skin. Weather permitting, a 1 piece suit is the best option. http://www.motorcycleapparel.net/mercha ... 505423-ATT
Something along those lines. Its even 100 percent waterproof so it will be a fluid barrier for blood etc. It can also be hosed off and cleaned easily. Your best gear will be useless and dangerous if soaked with contaminants such as zombie fluids. I would also duct tape the suit closed at wrists and ankles and heavy duty duct tape such as gorilla tape can be used to reinforce any clothing.

Which works just fine, until you realize you have a bad case of diarrhea...RIGHT NOW. At which point, every positive of this arrangement becomes a negative.

[Úlfhéðinn]

Almost all options fail under mob like conditions. Unless you are wearing a 1 piece suit, your clothing/armor can snag and get you hung up and more importantly, can be pulled apart and jackets/shirts can be pulled up etc, exposing bare skin. Weather permitting, a 1 piece suit is the best option. http://www.motorcycleapparel.net/mercha ... 505423-ATT
Something along those lines. Its even 100 percent waterproof so it will be a fluid barrier for blood etc. It can also be hosed off and cleaned easily. Your best gear will be useless and dangerous if soaked with contaminants such as zombie fluids. I would also duct tape the suit closed at wrists and ankles and heavy duty duct tape such as gorilla tape can be used to reinforce any clothing.

Which works just fine, until you realize you have a bad case of diarrhea...RIGHT NOW. At which point, every positive of this arrangement becomes a negative.

Hahahaha

[Doctorr Fabulous]

Almost all options fail under mob like conditions. Unless you are wearing a 1 piece suit, your clothing/armor can snag and get you hung up and more importantly, can be pulled apart and jackets/shirts can be pulled up etc, exposing bare skin. Weather permitting, a 1 piece suit is the best option. http://www.motorcycleapparel.net/mercha ... 505423-ATT
Something along those lines. Its even 100 percent waterproof so it will be a fluid barrier for blood etc. It can also be hosed off and cleaned easily. Your best gear will be useless and dangerous if soaked with contaminants such as zombie fluids. I would also duct tape the suit closed at wrists and ankles and heavy duty duct tape such as gorilla tape can be used to reinforce any clothing.

Which works just fine, until you realize you have a bad case of diarrhea...RIGHT NOW. At which point, every positive of this arrangement becomes a negative.

Right, note to self, add "trapdoor" to anti-bite suit.

[KnightoftheRoc]

Almost all options fail under mob like conditions. Unless you are wearing a 1 piece suit, your clothing/armor can snag and get you hung up and more importantly, can be pulled apart and jackets/shirts can be pulled up etc, exposing bare skin. Weather permitting, a 1 piece suit is the best option. http://www.motorcycleapparel.net/mercha ... 505423-ATT
Something along those lines. Its even 100 percent waterproof so it will be a fluid barrier for blood etc. It can also be hosed off and cleaned easily. Your best gear will be useless and dangerous if soaked with contaminants such as zombie fluids. I would also duct tape the suit closed at wrists and ankles and heavy duty duct tape such as gorilla tape can be used to reinforce any clothing.

Which works just fine, until you realize you have a bad case of diarrhea...RIGHT NOW. At which point, every positive of this arrangement becomes a negative.

Right, note to self, add "trapdoor" to anti-bite suit.

you'll want a "fap door" up front to match

[Three]

I'd say bite resistant is the more practical option as opposed to trying to be "bite proof". Say you do manage to be truly untouchable by teeth. What good is it going to do you if you are overpowered, and likely fatigued by what most likely is a very heavy outfit. Now your just going to be a juggernaut thats either going to be crushed in a pig pile of the dead or just flat out dehydrate and starve seeing as the undead will never give up the fight. I would rather lighter "armor" that would allow you to be more mobile. It really only has to give a chance to react to the bite, if you go down in a crowd your probably done no matter what, and if you let a sole zombie sneak up on you and take you out its kind of your own fault. If you think about it, there is a lot of clothing you couldnt cleanly puncture with your teeth. Clothing that would take some degree of thrashing and working at it. Carhart is a great idea, particularly the one piece suits, and you could even gut the lining depending on the climate. As for the neck something as simple as a rolled up towel would be fairly helpful. You could tape it to make sure it holds its shape. Go roll up a towel, I bet you cant bite through it, especially if your jaw muscles are decaying. Its moveable, so its not bite proof, but it should provide the neck with enough protection for you to react.

[shiddymunkie]

Sharksuits are designed to be nothing but bite-proof, and if they work for sharks, they will work for zombies hands down. Problem is, a full suit weighs like 20 lbs -- not horrible for armor but not light for clothing.



Here is a full line of different kinds of sharksuits.

If you were to go this route, but didn't want the whole suit, might be better just to get this:

The hands and arms are going to be the most likely to get bit, and so would require this added security the most of any other body parts. The titanium version weighs 4 lbs. Then use lighter weight, bite-resistant clothing everywhere else.

The better option, in my mind, would be more practical attire. Decent denim would put up a good fight against a bite. Leather would work well too. But for the strongest and lightest options, I'd say some sort of kevlar clothing. A quick google search providers multiple places to purchase such clothes, and remember, the clothes don't have to be bullet proof or even stab proof -- those two things are very different than bites.

[TripleThreat]

Good luck to all

[Cargosquid]

I agree that armor is heavy and mobility is limited. But if you have enough people....you can go on the offensive.

Just have THESE GUYS at your side. Just give them real maces.....

[Mojito150]

I'll be making some zombie coveralls soon - heavyweight cotton drill, which I'll reinforce with some fiberglass or kevlar tape in the more bite prone areas. This is an outer layer to be worn over jeans and a hooded jacket, sleeves and trousers taped down tight. Athletic cup, combat boots, motorcycle gloves, a full-face helmet, and possibly a neck gator. This is "heavy armour" for entering buildings where melee work is likely - I see it being used with a center-grip shield (metal garbage can lid) and a geologists hammer.

Very specific I know!

[zombiehunter26]

i am getting some mx motor bike gear, paintball armor, some military clothing, maby a hat, a bandanna sown around my collar so i can were it like a smog, even thinking of painting my helmet as a dark demon

[dustytomes]

Or... http://www.safetytoday.com/categories/Bite_Resistant_Clothing.aspx
Probably costs an arm and a leg...

[ZombieGranny]

Several posters mentioned protecting the neck.
Victorian era English policemen wore hard separate collars similar to this to prevent garroting, which was popular with the thugs of that era.
If you can't get a wire around, you can't get a bite in.


This page has a good section on some of the detachable or separate collars in history. Starts about 1/4 of the page down.- http://scheong.wordpress.com/category/h ... -clothing/

[SaikoPureya]

Bite proof clothing would be genius, all you would need really is a shark suit.

[ShooterMike]

I have a shirt and coif (hood) from these folks.

http://www.ringmesh.com/

I also got an extra piece that's about 6" x 12" for testing. I have been unable to cut it with very sharp and properly edged swords from Albion and Angus Trim while it's wrapped around tatami omote. This stuff is TOUGH! Any bites on this garment will only leave bits of broken teeth falling to the ground.

The short sleeved shirt weighs about as much as a light carhart jacket. The big difference is, it's cool in the summer. About like wearing a vented sports jersey. It really only needs a decent quality cotton longsleeve T-shirt as padding to keep it away from skin. After my experience with these two pieces, I'm really Jonesing for a long sleeve, thigh-length Ringmesh tunic. But that one's gonna be a bit pricey.

[shiddymunkie]

I have a shirt and coif (hood) from these folks.

http://www.ringmesh.com/

I also got an extra piece that's about 6" x 12" for testing. I have been unable to cut it with very sharp and properly edged swords from Albion and Angus Trim while it's wrapped around tatami omote. This stuff is TOUGH! Any bites on this garment will only leave bits of broken teeth falling to the ground.

The short sleeved shirt weighs about as much as a light carhart jacket. The big difference is, it's cool in the summer. About like wearing a vented sports jersey. It really only needs a decent quality cotton longsleeve T-shirt as padding to keep it away from skin. After my experience with these two pieces, I'm really Jonesing for a long sleeve, thigh-length Ringmesh tunic. But that one's gonna be a bit pricey.

Nice find, thanks for the info!

[Konnan]

A decent set of welding leathers would do the trick....it could be a "modular" system...start with a set of cape sleeves (covers arms and across the shoulders)..snap on the chest piece and the back , your upper body is covered......the collar can be snapped up tight around the neck.....add on the apron and now your covered down to the knees.....you can get a hood that snaps onto the collar ....in fact you can cover yourself from head to toe fairley easily.....wouldnt trust the leather against the bite from a zombified shark or croc-a-gator....but think it would hold up to "human" bite force....wouldnt use welding gloves but a set of the butcher or chef type cut proof gloves would work

[ShooterMike]

....wouldnt use welding gloves but a set of the butcher or chef type cut proof gloves would work

Good point. The Ringmesh company listed above started out making food service type gloves for oyster shuckers and butchers. I first saw their stuff at an oyster bar in the late '90s where I used to hang out. One of the bartenders was shucking fresh oysters early one afternoon and I asked him about the gloves he was wearing. I thought they were the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

That's how they started. Then they realized their mesh had all kinds of other applications. They now make all kinds of suff out of that mesh...even bikinis for the fashion unconscious.

[glaston]

There's really no way to get or make clothing that will make you impervious to zombie attacks. So it's always gonna be a combination of protection-mobility-and common sense in the situation.
It seems that the types of bites that could be protected against are to the hands, arms, and legs. Anyone looking for a suit of lightweight armor that will allow them to go play grab ass with a group of zombies really needs to examine that entire idea again.
Solutions to problems like this are never all encompassing, and are always elegant when done right.
Anything that can protect against a dog bite will work for a zombie bite. Zombies are still subject to the limitations of human teeth and human jaws. They don't posses super human strength.
So a simple solution such as kevlar knit sleeves underneath a pair of linemens forearm pads, a carhart or leather jacket, thick carhart or leather pants with under armor beneath, good boots, a kevlar knit balaclava for head and neck.
Combine that with good common sense and you're as protected as you're ever gonna be, or as you're ever gonna need to be.
Chain mail and composite armor are simply not practical. Neither is the idea that any type of suit or clothing is gonna allow someone to be mobbed by zombies and still walk away uninfected.
You avoid those situations like the plague, because it IS the plague. Anything else is a gamble you don't want to take, and suits of armor promote a false sense of security. A well functioning brain is the best defense against this type of problem...
Because in the end, all it takes is a scratch from a broken fingernail in a place where the armor rode up too high or too low.

[KnightoftheRoc]

^^^this^^^
And, the chain mail shirts at ringmesh.com are the type you'd see listed on e-bay- assembeled in a T shape by machine, and that's not ideal. The result is a floppy, sloppy, loose fitting sleeve of conductive materials that, by it's nature, is prone to catch on things. A properly made chain shirt is built up from three pieces, a 'vest' section, and two sleeves, all with the weave oriented so that gravity lets it 'hug' the shape of the wearer. In other words, with the wearer standing with arms relaxed at the sides, you shouldn't be able to see a sleeve shape to the cuff, it should fit like a long john shirt would. Leggings would be made of two pieces, one down each side and leg, then joined in the center.

Having worn chain armor all day long for days on end, in the summer sun, and fighting in it, I can tell you that, for the protection it MAY provide to a zombie bite, it's simply not worth the effort involved, nor the expense. If you're used to wearing it, already have it, or make it, fine, go for it, but to invest in and set aside for an "in case of" application, you could have spent the money on much better preps.

And, of course, there's always the adage that "no system is ever perfect"
I do like the gloves on that site tho, may invest in a pair.