07-27-2014, 11:41 PM
Quote:[quote="Dan Howard" post=357664] Cost and/or availability seem to be the main reasons.
Not only cost or availibility, but the sheer fact that in a desert it is more comfortable to wear since you are being cooked by the sun inside a metal oven, plus it would be less fatigueing.
Besides that the arid conditions of a desert preserves leather better then in a moist enviroment, hence that leather probably would have been worn more in the near east rater than in northern Europe.[/i][/u]