Does this harness hang together?

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Pietro da San Tebaldo
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Does this harness hang together?

Post by Pietro da San Tebaldo »

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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Post by Amalric Unomen »

Sounds good, but I have always imagined Italians more stylish. The bascinet is on the way out, some sort of celada would be more rakish. Just my opinion. heck i am stuck in a greathelm 100 years earlier.
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