Musculata Images

[Diocle]

I said "Leather can fold and move and drape just like cloth. It all depends on the type of weave in the cloth and the thickness of the leather."

That particular example is apparently depicting a very thin, light cloth. What has that to do with armour or arming garments? The type of cloth required for those items is a lot more substantial and is indistinguishable from light leather in the way it moves, drapes, and folds.

I think you clearly can see it's made of a different material than a textile thin dress, and that probably it is made of leather, there weren't many more materials creating the effect of leather when folded .. .

This was the point about the pic and this point is now clear I suppose: The subarmalis is made of leather, at least if our eyes are still working well, the heavy textile is perfectly represented by the cloak of Venus and it's clearly sculpted in a different way than the Mars' subarmalis, on the other hand, the effect of a thin tissue is clearly shown on the cloth directly enveloping the soft skin of the Goddess, so, at this point, it's not easy thinking to something else than leather.

I think that, worn under a bronze muscled cuirass, a thin leather subarmalis may work pretty well ....