/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9753453
nah, I mean. He broke his back when he was a kid. fell from a tree. And because of that he can't wear any proper armour, his back is just shit.

>>9753425
no source on it, but for larps it should be enough. I even wore chainmail for several days _under_ my cloths so it will remain concealed and had no problem with it.
4 layers reasonably good linen should be enough for larp regardless.

I ONCE found a period mention on how thick an aketon should be but that was a half sentence offhand mention. And I can't find it since then...

As for the wearing stuff on civilian clothing I have a firm belief that it never completely disappeared if we can count arming doublets as semi-civilian (or if we look at the less wealthy soldiers). But in the 16th century it's happening again widespread, or at least we have sources to it again.

>>9447625
>I guess I was wrong. Seems very incredulous that people would wear chain under Gambesons though. Almost a common sense thing. But, I concede.
Well, it's not that uncomfortable and inside or outside the gambeson will pad the incoming blows. (and it's not THAT easy to cut up a gambeson if you aren't just standing there)
Plus maybe it's better for stab protection to stop the stabbing things before it gets to the chainmail, although I'm not entirely sure about that.
And lets not forget the fact that if you make very tight fitting hauberks then you basically make your armour several kilograms lighter. That's an important thing.

Anyway the fun thing is that as I said they did it with civilian clothing too not just aketons. because there are paintings where you can see part of the cloths under the chain and they are clearly very thin and clearly not quilted in any way (contrary to an aketon)
Like on pic, it's clearly just a doublet under the chain