05-14-2007, 10:24 AM
True enough Dan, but there is more info available for mediaeval times, and it seems that mail required a fair amount of padding ( because it "gives" under a blow, thereby causing bruising or worse if unpadded) and as armour got more rigid/plate type, the padding got thinner and eventually became an undergarment with 'points', to attach plate to , without entirely disappearing ---doubtless for comfort reasons if no other.
The illustrations on pots etc do not show any unequivocal'padding'/sub-armalis type garment, and for what it's worth, it is mu surmise that it came in with mail.
The illustrations on pots etc do not show any unequivocal'padding'/sub-armalis type garment, and for what it's worth, it is mu surmise that it came in with mail.
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff