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Originally Posted by Tomsdad
Its true. historically limb armour was basically high end bespoke tailoring with all the extra issue of useful protection on top. Now modern manufacture and design is going to to go some way to alleviate that, but only so far.
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A fair number of armoured vests over the years were designed by people who fairly obviously could've done with some time studying old breastplates, mail shirts, and quilted armour jackets to see how to make armour actually fit and be wearable.