The Straitjacket Tarot Complete Deck and Booklet Set features the full extra large 4"x6" premium 78 card deck featuring both the complete major and minor arcana! The Deck is housed in its own premium smooth full color tuck box and both the cards and box are absolutely alive in glorious technicolor-toned magic and beauty! The Straitjacket Tarot Deck also includes a beautiful 4x6 signed and numbered bonus card, and includes the full color 6"x9" collectors booklet which includes the complete artwork of each major and minor arcana cards (in their respective suits and order). Included in this complete set is the 3"x5" full color sticker that features the Straitjacket Tarot box art and two of the promotional postcards for the Straitjacket Tarot (featuring The Hanged Man)!, The rare "Embrace Your Fetishes" die-cut sticker, Straitjacket Tarot Fan Club Membership Card and welcome letter!

Everything in the Straitjacket Tarot (the deck, booklet, stickers and all material) is created, printed and manufactured in the USA!

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"Uninhibited: The Cher Project" is the first full length album by Paul and is the ONLY album celebrating the music of the most iconic woman in pop music history: CHER. With John Ballinger taking inspirational direction from Phil Spector, John produced, arranged and played on every track, with Paul taking inspirational direction from the Bible of Bono: Sonny Bono that is. What remains is a High Lonesome-Soul that ultimately pays honky-tonk homage to the Goddess that is CHER. “When we broke down some of Cher’s dance anthems, what remained were good old fashioned torch songs,” says Paul. “Every Cher hit that echoed on the dance floor were as solid as any Roy Orbison heartbreaker or Sonny Bono masterpiece. That’s what we wanted to do with these songs, to sand down the layers of club music and bring out the natural beauty of some really well crafted songwriting.” “Uninhibited:The CHER Project” is a play on Cher’s iconic first perfume of the same name. As a nod to the original copy from the 1989 fragrance campaign, this album too is “bottled but NOT contained”, with Top Notes of Rock n’ Roll, Middle Notes of Rockabilly Soul, with a Dry Down of Country Pop.

CD is in a glamorous and glossy, heavy gatefold jacket with a mini-LP style CD.

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You Better Sit Down Kids; Paul Ybarra is back with an all new Cher songs album with “Electric Feathers: The CHER Project, Volume II.” “Electric Feathers” is the second full album exploring the work of the most iconic woman in Pop music history: CHER. With Paul’s barroom baroque voice and John Ballinger’s Wall-of-Sound alt-pop production, Electric Feathers puts the VAMP back in revamp.

THE TRACKS: 1. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) 2. Dark Lady 3. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves 4. I Found Someone 5. I Got You, Babe 6. Just Like Jesse James 7. Take Me Home 8. The Gunman 9. Walking In Memphis 10. We All Sleep Alone 11. You Better Sit Down, Kids

Produced & Arranged By John Ballinger. All Vocals By Paul Ybarra. All Music By John Ballinger.

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Authentic MELROSE straitjacket from the 1960's. Size Adult Large.

This is a really cool find and it's in great, used shaped for the age of this restraint. The canvas is a natural cream color and is complete with no tears, rips or damage; it's just been put to good use (depending on what side of the straitjacket you're on!) This Melrose straitjacket is unique from other straitjackets before and after its time in its style and design. Most straitjackets are fitted from behind (like Posey, Humane Restraint jackets that are designed to be as intimidating as well as secure with all of the buckles and straps in the back.) Not so with the Melrose jacket! It even has a very soft and fitted collar that lay flat and is applied from the front, with the three buckles and straps (the straps with their institutional blue strip on each) fastens just as secure. The jacket is also slightly tapered at the sides to offer a more flattering fit for private hospitals where a patient would feel less like a prisoner when restrained in a straitjacket.

The canvas is heavy and pliable and is actually quite comfortable. It fits is similar to a Posey Medium jacket (I'm 5'11, 175 pounds with an athletic build and this fits the same as a medium Posey; very comfortable and surprisingly secure!) The measurements from pit to pit are 40" (again, I'm a size 43 chest and it was a good, solid fit), the length is 23" so it looks and feels "fitted" and the arm lengths are 31" from sewing at the buckle. The buckles are metal and solid, although they've darkened with age. They still work quite well when fastened, a testament to the quality of American made restraints, especially from that time period. The arm straps have some very slight fraying (pictured) but this is quite minimal and doesn't compromise the function and security of this very rare straitjacket. Pictures were taken in natural light. The canvas does have some staining from use (no blood or anything bad like molds that can affect canvas.) This was well used in its time and was carefully stored until I got it about 10 years ago on eBay when the Melrose jackets would sometimes pop up. I've kept it in an airtight container and it's in the same condition I origninally bought it in (we used it for a few photo shoots several years ago.)

All in all, this Melrose jacket is pretty cool and is the actual style that Joan Crawford wore in the William Castle film "Straitjacket" (1964), reflecting the unique style of this period restraint.

Any questions, please message me and I'll get back to you usually within the day. Shipping is expedited with insurance and tracking and only in the US (sorry, it's just too expensive shipping internationally for both of us.)

Thanks for looking. This Melrose Straitjacket is from my personal collection.