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Jean Thibodeau
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Well here is a place you can get a breast/back plate or a plackard for just a bit over $250 in munitions quality, I have both and I am happy with them as they are functional armour and Allan has some of the best customer service one can find:
http://www.merctailor.com/catalog/index.php?c...f8hhd12aa1
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Lafayette C Curtis
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| Adam H. wrote: | | I would like to say that I am going for something of a middle class character, but I'm not sure if that even existed back then with the feudal system. |
The armors in the picture you've put up are from the 15th century, and by that time Europe certainly had a middle class of sorts--a fairly large one, in fact. Most of the English longbowmen that participated in the Hundred Years' War, the Wars of the Roses, and some of the Franco-Burgundian Wars largely came from the rural middle classes (the yeomanry) and probably some urban sources as well (mostly middle-class artisans and craftsfolk). The archers recruited into the French and Burgundian Ordonnance companies might have relied upon the middle classes as one of the principal sources for their personnel, too, though I'm rather less sure about that. So yes, there was a middle class, and such a background would have fitted perfectly with the archer figure you've chosen to replicate in your kit.
A couple of notes I'd like to add: you could and probably should go without the full leg protection shown in the picture; unarmored or partially armored legs would be a much more plausible choice, since (if I remember correctly) a full leg harness was fairly rare among archers. It might be a good idea to keep the spurs, since--as everybody else have said--an armored archer at the time was very likely to have been a mounted infantryman. Last but not least, an archer with your kind of kit would have been expected to do more than "skirmish;" the English longbowmen habitually involved themselves in intense hand-to-hand combat, especially when the men-at-arms needed their help to shore up the defenses or put some additional mass into a charge. So the sword is a must-have, and better still if you can find a matching buckler because the longbowmen were particularly known for their prowess with sword and buckler--except if you're trying to make a French or Burgundian impression, in which case a longsword would fit the bill.
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