I'm in the beginning stages of assembling a full harness, and before I get rolling, I wanted critiques from various floks. Please let me know if the harness described here makes any serious errors for anachronism or style:
Helm: (Mandrake Armory) bascinet with side pivoted visor (currently a bargrill, but will be retro-fitted with a hounskull later). Vervelles & an aventail.
Arming coat tailored after the Charles du Blois pourpoint.
Shoulders, arms, legs from Sinric's various 15th century patterns, courtesy of the Pattern archives.
Either a brigandine coat or a corrazina coat of plates. (The corrazine muttman pictured recently was beautiful. I was recently at The Met in NYC, and saw their corrazina [yes, aware it's reconstructed from unassociated pieces, but isn't still a style used in that era?] and a couple of brigs they have. Wow!)
Sabatons, in the fullness of time. Turnshoes until then.
Still figuring what would be a good pattern to roll with for gauntlets. Any advise?
My impression is an Italian man at arms from c.1420.
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"Or, a pall inverted surmounted by an orle Azure counterchanged"
mka: Sam Pearce
Does this harness hang together?
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