Thanks Li! Okay, so the correct word for the thigh armour is: tuǐ qún (lit. 'leg skirt'.) And the armour as a whole: jiǎ The lamellar are from "Arm Street". (I'm getting the helmet from "Steel Mastery".) Both these companies source their metal from the Ukraine. I ~think~ the construction is "mongoli...

No problem.
I'll go with haidate for now, until I can get the Chinese term.
(It consists of two separate parts, so not really a skirt, and is hangs away from the legs, so neither chaps nor cuisse. The closest is a very big pair of haidate.)
How is that pronounced, by the way?

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