So now that our armor is coming along, we needed to come up with a good way to strap it closed. We had experimented with hot gluing velcro to the foam, but that was NOT working very well. The velcro sticks to itself better than to the foam, so you can use it once, but once you try to take the armor off, the velcro comes with it. So instead we decided to use plastic clips. Evil FX mentions on his blog that he just went to a thrift store and picked up a bunch a bags and what not and used the straps off of those, because yes plastic clips at craft stores are oddly expensive. Well I hear the rest of the country is cheaper, but in San Diego, CA thrift stores seem oddly expensive (I blame the hipsters). But what we do have is a very nice collection of dollar stores. My favorite is "99 Cents Only." I went there and they had a whole bunch of useful items with straps and buckles.
I found these utility belts, dog collars, and luggage straps. And the nice thing is the dog collars come in 4 different sizes so you can have different sized buckles where you need them.
For the side we used the dremmel tool to cut out a notch and then just hot glued the clips right to it. We made sure that the armor fits, so we didn't need straps, so the size is not adjustable, but that is fine. This worked really well, and they do not come off when we put on or remove the armor.
We also hot glued some straps to the shoulders and put buckles there.
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