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Unfortunately I have no idea where i found the original. Propably somewhere at pinterest
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This armour looks great! Is it meant to be used by women, or is the slim waist purely for fashion (like with 15th cenrury armour)?
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Real "female armor" is identical to male armor in proportions. Shaping the plates into more feminine shapes would Β actually make the armor less effective (domes and arches in compound curves are more resistant, while concave curves are inherent structural weak points).
The reason why 15th century and late-medieval plate harnesses were shaped in a "wasp's waist" was so the weight would rest on the soldier's waist rather than on his shoulders. And the breastplate would have an exaggerated bulge or dome shape around the belly to allow proper breathing of the abdomen. Without that buffer space, a good club or mace hit to the chest could kill a knight via suffocation. It wasn't a fashion statement at first, but rather a practical engineering constraint. The wasp's waist shape became a fashionable symbol of nobility and military power after it was proven effective on the battlefield.
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It's the armor from Alice in Wonderland I think so this is a female armor.Β
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Very nice, from the thumbnail it looked like a photo from a museum or something. Looks great.
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