Oakley Straight Jacket: Flames, Versions and What to Check
Oakley Straight Jacket (May 1996) and New Straight Jacket (November 1999): the flame colourways, lenses and what to check before buying one.
Contents
Model file
Dates and list prices as the maker's own documents print them. Everything else on this page comes from our listings.
Twelve Straight Jackets have passed through this studio. Everything here comes from pieces we have had in hand.
What it is
A sport wrap with a two-piece lens, sold first as Straight Jacket and later as New Straight Jacket. Both names appear on the pieces we have handled and they are not the same frame: five of the twelve were the New version.
Oakley introduced the Straight Jacket in May 1996 and the New Straight Jacket in November 19991. The years in our listings run from 1996 to 1999, and one listing gives the range 1996–1999 instead of a single year.
Colourways we have actually had
Frames
- Flames, in Orange Flames, Red Flames and Blue Flame
- Bengal
- Blood
- Carbon and Carbon Fiber
- Jet Black and Polished Black
- Royal Blue
- White Chrome
- FMJ and FMJ+
Lenses
- Fire Iridium
- Black Iridium
- Red Iridium
- G30 Iridium
The flames frames are the ones people come looking for. We have had four of them, in three different flame colourways.
Pieces we have had
These are the twelve Straight Jackets that have passed through the studio, grouped by the name written in each listing. Sold pieces stay here as a record; each photograph links to its original listing.
New Straight Jacket
Straight Jacket
Sizing
Not published yet. The Straight Jacket is a wrap, so what matters is the total frame width, and we have not measured one ourselves. Write to us at 16.88studiocontact@gmail.com about a specific pair and we will measure it.
What to check before you buy one
- Straight Jacket or New Straight Jacket. They are different frames with the same family name. If a listing does not distinguish them, ask.
- The lenses are a pair. A two-piece lens frame can end up with one original lens and one replacement, and the mismatch is easiest to see in sunlight, not in a photograph. We check it and we say so.
- Flames are printed, not moulded. On a worn piece the print can be rubbed at the edges. That is honest wear, and it should be photographed rather than described away.
- Temple engraving. Model and reference inside the temple, as on every Oakley of the period.
In the studio now
Related pieces listed today. Each one leaves this list the moment it sells.
Looking for one
Straight Jackets do not sit here long. Whatever is available is in the eyewear section of the shop; if it is not there, tell us the flame colourway or the finish you want and we will look for it. That is what Sourcing is.
Sources
- Oakley, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2000, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Item 1, Business: eyewear products table (date introduced, US suggested retail price), eyewear and apparel text; Item 7. www.sec.gov Consulted 30 Sep 2026.
Counts, colourways and the years in our listings come from pieces photographed in hand in the studio. Dates of introduction come only from the sources above.
Written in Barcelona at 16.88studio, an archive and resale project working with technical and branded sportswear from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Corrections with a source are welcome: write to us.