I guess I should just abandon that idea of taking the seam ripper to my Carharts, filling them up with Kevlar and sewing them back up.
There goes one Summer project.
Kevlar? That you can literally buy, by the ton in any marine supply?
Just say you were on your way to the boat yard. Or, that you once got hit by a boom, and it’s not a bullet vest, it’s a boom vest. Or you play rugby and have little girl ribs and they break easy.