[Emil Andersson]

Hello.

Earlier this evening (european time ) I was looking through some threads on an imageboard and stumbled upon the two pictures that I have attached to this post. I don't know anything at all about them or if what they're depicting even exists outside of these images, but I am intrigued by them and thought I'd share my curiosity with you all.

Are these two items real? If they are, what might be the history behind them? I assume that they'd be nothing but decorative, kind of like having several suits of armour around your mansion.

[P. Cha]

How do you even fit in one of those...much less MOVE?!?

[Colt Reeves]

The more important questions is how soon until we see Lady Gaga in one of them?





On a more serious note: I don't see any joints. Are they there but cleverly hidden? That would be an interesting thing to see worn in court, just for the novelty.

[Sean Flynt]

sorry...those are from an exhibition at Graz Landeszeughaus many years ago. Search "Graz" here and you'll find more. these are not metal. they're modern creations inspired by armour.

[Jean Thibodeau]

[Emil Andersson]

[Marik C.S.]

This reminds me less of armour and more of those street artists pretending to be living statues.
I guess it's some kind of acrylic fabric covered in chrome paint.

[Daniel Wallace]

i've seen these posted here in the past and never really payed that much attention to them. at first look they do look like steel but they don't seem to have any patina on them. the second one, i almost wonder if it was done by some kind of casting, the torso details are really spot on it looks very 'skin tight'

could something like this be made from iron/steel. i see it as possible, but it might take a lifetime to make it.

armour wasn't worn by just the guys but there's only two females that come to mind when you i think women in armour, i'd wonder what the armour of Joan of Arc would be like? probably no different from a man's armour. another historical person that these bring to my mind is eleanor or aquitaine who also was said to have taken up the sword and armour in her own defence.

[Mikko Kuusirati]

[Mikko Kuusirati]

[William P]

[Christian G. Cameron]

Quite a few women wore armour and fought. There were, according to the latest scholarly biography of John Hawkwood, so many women serving as men-at--arms in the English companies he led that Italian city-states passed ordinances about letting them enter town dressed as men--an interesting comment on the time, and the sometimes forgotten role of women in war.

Sir William Gold's mistress served in armour at one of the sieges in the late 1360s. I can speak from experience--a woman of womanly proportions has little difficulty fitting into my late 14th c' harness. In fact, as someone else on this thread suggested, I wonder if the globose style made it easier for women to serve in harness.

Also, Joanna of Naples and some of her ladies wore harness (I could find citations for all of these if pressed).

[Daniel Wallace]

i can't quote my source because it's from a book that i read quite a while back and might have been from my local libaray. but it seemed to hint at the idea that noble women who accompanied their husbands on the second crusade did in fact fight along side of them. now i think this is another story that's also surrounding eleanor of aquitaine, but i didn't look much further into the idea at the time being that my focus is on the first crusade and other aspects but would be interesting to track down some evidence.

i dunno, if you ask me - through history there's probably been a ton of female worriers that we don't even know about that fought right alone side men that weren't considered 'amazons' (strange but what does that word even imply?) from my own experience my last g/f was quite the lady, but god what a lioness. she asked me to get her a pink pistol for her b-day but i wouldn't do it because i was a little afraid for the guy that would get plugged by a pink pistol and might have to live with the shame of that for the rest of his life

[Ryan McLaurin]

Upon first glance I'm reminded of the old practice of "bronzing" boots. However, I don't believe that's possible to do with a dress...... Pretty neat looking though. Would be incredible if they were in fact steel.