Was the leather muscled curiass of the later times sexier?

[Dan Howard]

As has been said hundreds of times before. Leather and rawhide armour have been used in many time periods by many cultures. Leather/rawhide LAMELLAR has also been found in a Roman context (Dura Europos). There is zero evidence to suggest that the Romans ever made segmentata or musculata typologies in anything other than metal. Anyone who thinks they can look at a statue or even a painting and determine that something is made of leather is deluded.