Padded Armour

[tlclark]

This post may rather belong to 'reenactment and reconstruction', but I still think the first test results of my 'subarmalis' should be posted here.

By all means! Thanks.

I wanted the design to be as simple as possible, so I constructed it a little like an 'old Roman' tunic: a slit for the head, but no sleeves.
The neckslit had to be enlarged to keep it from exerting unpleasant pressure on the carotis.
The closing system (leather straps running from stitched on heart-shaped leather patches) was taken from a Dura-Europos linen greave liner.

Looks good to me. I have no idea how it would work for a segmentata, but on the musculata, we never see the subarmalis around the neckline, which is why my pattern has a square neckline. This might solve any binding problem.

Luckily I have been disciplined enough over the last months to lose 3-4 kilos, or otherwise there would have been real trouble getting into my cuirass (it was already difficult enough!).

Actually why do you think I want a musculata with 'love handles'? It covers a multitude of sins.

Anyway, the subarmalis looks great. Thanks!

Travis