Blousing a mail shirt.

audax · Post by **audax** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:17 pm

Do you blouse your hauberk with your kidney belt, if you wear one? Is this the recommended practice?

I recollect freiman mentioning that the rings deform if struck on top of a hard surface, but in mail we're faced with needing rigid protection in certain places. So I was thinking I could use a kidney belt to blouse my shirt over a gambeson (surcote over everything).

Thanks for any advice,

audax

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:33 am

If you don't pull your mail up and have it droop over whatever external belt you wear, the weight will all be on your shoulders.\

They did it that way back then, too.

freiman the minstrel · Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:58 am

Audax,

I wear a kidney belt under my mail. I cover the kidney belt with a very heavy woolen tunic, and that's it. I have had some deformation of rings, and I have lost a couple, but not many. I wore a belly barrel over the mail for a while, but it just looked wrong, and I am legal with just the heavy suspention rig.

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ThorvaldR Skegglauss · Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:02 am

Audax,

I just use a standard ring belt around my waist and blouse it up a little bit to take some of the weight off my shoulders.

ThorvaldR Skegglauss · Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:11 am

Double post

audax · Post by **audax** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:49 pm

Thanks guys. I'll wear the kidney belt under my gambeson to minimize ring deformation and blouse with my ring belt. Now if only my helm would arrive.

I probably won't be able to visit until sometime over my Christmas break from school (lasts about a month), so I'll be able to come over when it's COLD! Or I can wait until spring break, when it's a little warmer.

Thanks,

audax

Blaine de Navarre · Post by **Blaine de Navarre** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:21 pm

It helps to have the external belt about as tight as you can stand it; if it's too loose the hauberk will want to unblouse itself.

Jasper · Post by **Jasper** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:24 am

whether you blouse or not. DON'T DO JUMPING JACKS WITHOUT A CUP!

Sixtus_Goetz · Post by **Sixtus_Goetz** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:08 am

Jasper wrote:whether you blouse or not. DON'T DO JUMPING JACKS WITHOUT A CUP!

Snort!!!

freiman the minstrel · Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:50 am

Jasper,

While I am sure that many of us will certainly benefit from your experience, you should know that Audax is a female person.

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audax · Post by **audax** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:28 pm

freiman the minstrel wrote:Jasper,

While I am sure that many of us will certainly benefit from your experience, you should know that Audax is a female person.

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I bet it's good advice. Ouch. :shock:

Jasper · Post by **Jasper** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:25 am

Just say some of my Friends have a before picture. Luckly the flash had not rechared for the after.