"i was thinking every one has good i deas but i think i have com up with a very good soultion my self a motorcycle jacket with the padding even though its good by it self there are still vunerbale areas such as the back of arms inside fore arms neck area and sides of torso. every where there is a gap cut open the jacket and use small 1x1 peices of sheet metal attachet with some sort of stong material such as wire or srtips of leather then attach to inside of jacket where needed and close up. this will add no more than 3 pounds to total weight there venteated light weight tear resistent fire resetint water (blood) resetent and you still matain amazig flexablitity"

"http://www.weldedchainmail.com/index.htm

This guy makes maille in either stainless or titanium and individually welds each link closed. Given that full coveralls will probably require about 80,000 links or more, that's a helluva lot of welding and why his maille is so expensive. This allows the use of thinner links, and thus a far lighter finished maille, while increasing the strength of each link by about 20x."

"The funny thing is those welds look like ****.

The factor of 20 is a made up number too. Regardless, properly welded or brazed links would be substantially stronger than butted ones."