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A woman exhibiting steatopygia. It has been suggested that this feature was once more widespread. Paleolithic Venus figurines, sometimes referred to as "Steatopygian Venus" figures, discovered from Europe to Asia presenting a remarkable development of the thighs, and even the prolongation of the labia minora, have been used to support this ...
Mail shirt reaching to the mid-thigh with sleeves. Early mail shirts generally were quite long. During the 14th–15th century hauberks became shorter, coming down to the thigh. A haubergeon reaches the knee. The haubergeon was replaced by the hauberk due to the use of plate; with the legs now encased in steel, the longer mail became redundant ...
The first evidence for one-piece breastplates is from an altarpiece in the Pistoia cathedral dated to 1365. [4] Complete, lightweight, one or two-piece breastplates were readily used by the first decade of the 15th century. [4] [6] The French term pancier, which became English pauncher and German panzer, was also used.
Faulds. Faulds are pieces of plate armour worn below a breastplate to protect the waist and hips, which began to appear in Western Europe from about 1370. [1] They consist of overlapping horizontal lames of metal, articulated for flexibility, that form an apron-like skirt in front.
Tassets are a piece of plate armour designed to protect the upper thighs. They take the form of separate plates hanging from the breastplate or faulds . They may be made from a single piece or segmented.
The Third Reich - by some accounts, captured Soviet steel breastplates came to supply the German army; also Germany, in limited quantities (only for parts of the SS, mostly assault squads), produced similar breastplates. Estimates of the plates' performance from front-line soldiers were mixed, receiving both positive and negative feedback.