/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8416752
>Italic people are famous for having rather large buttocks and staunch hips

That's one of the points that casts doubts on the widespread use of the segmentata: by the time of say around just before the Dominate, the vast majority of the Legions were from the outer provinces of Rome, in great part from the Danube region, Illyria, and upper Gaul, people not widely known for having Latin stature or build. It's very likely the bulk of the armors in common use came from derivatives of Occidental designs similar to squamata, or they kept to hamata, both of which are much more forgiving of lack of ass and hips.

Pic only marginally related, I just like seeing hamata in widespread use on a bunch of white guys rather than trying to shove them all into fake segmentata like in Gladiator.