Leather Armor? (NO HOLDS BARRED!!)

[tlclark]

I have no problem with them being leather. So long as it is stipluated that they have no practical function other than to look pretty - ceremonial costumes similar to the "faux brigandine" in Asian courts mentioned earlier by Felix.

This is certainly a possibility, perhaps even a probability and I freely admit it, and I respect that that's your opinion, but I can't concede to an absolute rule on the basis of one person's, or several persons' judgment on what a person dead for some 1800+ years would have thought to be acceptable.

I have said many times that I think that by the Antonine period that these are probably ceremonial. However, since I have evidence that leather musculata were in use prior to this time, I cannot concede the possibility that it was always so, and that they had NO practical function.

Travis