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Haidate (thigh guards) and kote (sleeves) could also be partially or completely armoured with kikko. Lightweight portable folding armour ( kikko tatami gusoku ) would have a kikko tatami dōu (folding breastplate), and auxiliary armour items such as wakibiki , manchira , and manju no wa could be armoured with kikko .
Longsleeve or short sleeve one-piece outfit worn as everyday wear boilersuit, [16] overalls [17] Jumpsuit [18] (everyday wear), coveralls [19] (workwear) Sleeveless one-piece outfit worn over a shirt, with long legs dungarees [20] overalls, [17] bib overalls, farm overalls Long leg bottoms made out of thick sweatshirt fabric with elastic at the ...
Forearm guard. May be solid metal or splints of metal attached to a leather backing. Bracers made of leather were most commonly worn by archers to protect against snapping bowstrings. Developed in antiquity but named in the 14th century. 'Vambrace' may also sometimes refer to parts of armour that together cover the lower and upper arms. Gauntlet
Japanese armour was generally constructed from many small iron (tetsu) and/or leather (nerigawa) scales (kozane) and/or plates (ita-mono), connected to each other by rivets and macramé cords (odoshi) made from leather and/or braided silk, and/or chain armour . Noble families had silk cords made in specific patterns and colors of silk thread.
An Inverness cape worn with Highland dress, 2007 Tacoma Highland Games. Even though a wide variety of coats, overcoats, and rain gear are worn with Highland dress to deal with inclement weather, the Inverness cape has come to be almost universally adopted for rainy weather by pipe bands the world over, and many other kilt wearers also find it to be the preferable garment for such conditions.
Technically, the term describes a long, loose cape-like cloak worn from the 12th to the 16th century by both sexes, although by the 19th century, it was used to describe any loose-fitting, shaped outer garment similar to a cape. [1] For example, the dolman, a 19th-century cape-like woman's garment with partial sleeves is often described as a ...
The components of a Goodyear welted shoe. A Goodyear welt is a strip of leather, rubber, or plastic that runs along the perimeter of a shoe outsole. [1] The basic principle behind the Goodyear welt machine was invented in 1862 by August Destouy, who designed a machine with a curved needle to stitch turned shoes.
A houppelande or houpelande is an outer garment, with a long, full body and flaring sleeves, that was worn by both men and women in Europe in the late Middle Ages. Sometimes the houppelande was lined with fur. The garment was later worn by professional classes, and has remained in Western civilization as the familiar academic and legal robes of ...