I bought some Kevlar cable in a small size for an application where nylon 'dial cord' would also work.
The recommended crimp sleeves, installed with the recommended crimp tool, did not reliably hold; the fiber itself was rather hard, and actually felt a little 'greasy'.
Worse, for your purposes, was that when bent over a relatively small (but not tiny) pulley or eyelet, some of the fibers fractured, and the resulting splinters were sharp enough and stiff enough to produce nasty puncture wounds.
Because of the splinter problem, I would not want to wear clothing made of Kevlar, unless it came with a tightly woven nylon liner, as I think bullet resistant vests do. If you need a ballistic nylon liner to protect you from the Kevlar, and you don't need actual ballistic protection, then the Kevlar just adds weight for no good reason.
If you will never fold or machine wash the garment, so that it won't splinter, you still face the problem of stitching it. ... which may require using thread with some sort of sticky resin on it, so the stitches won't just slip off the fiber's greasy surface. I'm not at all sure how to do that with a machine, or even by hand, and who know what will stick to the resin.
Just go to Bass Pro Shops and buy a nice fishing shirt.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
