Re: Padded shoulders (was: Re: Padded jacks sleeve construction)

[ATECH AG]

Before everyone gets carried away with mail shirts over "puffed" sleeves, don't
forget that the original question was whether it would work with a particular
shirt in the Company. It's actually very unusual in our period to see full mail
shirts worn, most are pieces to reinforce areas of weakness in other types of
armour. There's little point in wearing a full shirt under a good breastplate -
adds considerable weight and no protective benefit.

John

Ivo Malz wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Actually, I am curious to see the picture of a mail shirt worn over a puffed
> sleeve. The only depictions (quite a few) I know of are
>
> -either depictions of soldiers wearing just the Jack plus maybe a mail
> standard or an additional breastplate, or
>
> -knights and princes wearing full plate armour over an arming doublet
> without any further defence over the puffed upper sleeves.
>
>
> If I take into consideration that mail to a certain extent used to be sort
> of "tailored" to the body shape, covering these puffed shoulders in mail
> would require extra "tailoring" plus extra material- or a very loose fit to
> go with the puffed sleeve thus requiring even more mail around the
> shoulders.
> So to my mind not the way to go for the rank and file, but rather something
> for posh followers of fashion.
>
> Regards
>
> Ivo
>
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