Watch A Chainmail Dress Protect Its Inventor Against 500,000 Volts Of Electricity

Anouk Wipprecht designed this fashionable and functional chain mail dress with the help of ArcAttack and wore it herself at Maker Faire when her models were too nervous to try it in action. To build a bad-ass, lightning-resistant, 600-rings-of-chainmail dress for your own use, you can follow step-by-step instructions over on Instructables. Hall of the Mountain King not included.

(via Fashionably Geek)

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