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Later armets have a visor. A stereotypical knight's helm. Favoured in Italy. Close helmet or close helm: 15th to 16th century: A bowl helmet with a moveable visor, very similar visually to an armet and often the two are confused. However, it lacks the hinged cheekplates of an armet and instead has a movable bevor, hinged in common with the ...
Typically, only the right pauldron would support this cut-away, as this was the lance arm of the knights contending in a joust. Typical tournament armor for jousting would be padded with cloth to minimize injury from an opponent's lance and prevent the metal of the pauldron from scraping against the breastplate.
The bevor was a component of a medieval suit of armour.It was usually a single piece of plate armour protecting the chin and throat and filling the gap between the helmet and breastplate. [1]
Bronze muscle cuirass, Italy, c. 350–300 BC. Partial plate armour, made out of bronze, which protected the chest and the lower limbs, was used by the ancient Greeks, as early as the late Bronze Age.
A left-arm vambrace; the bend would be placed at the knight's elbow An ornate German (16th century) vambrace made for Costume Armor. Vambraces (French: avant-bras, sometimes known as lower cannons in the Middle Ages) or forearm guards are tubular or gutter defences for the forearm worn as part of a suit of plate armour that were often connected to gauntlets.
A rerebrace connected to a pauldron (which would cover the shoulder) Italian rerebrace, ~1440. A rerebrace (sometimes known as an upper cannon [1]) is a piece of armour designed to protect the upper arms (above the elbow).
Balenciaga (/ b ə ˌ l ɛ n s i ˈ ɑː ɡ ə / bə-LEN-see-AH-gə, [1] Spanish: [balenˈθjaɣa], Basque: [balents̻i.aɣa]) is a Spanish luxury fashion house headquartered in Paris.It designs, manufactures and markets ready-to-wear footwear, handbags, and accessories, and licenses its name and branding to Coty for fragrances. [2]
Balenciaga was born in the Basque town Getaria , Spain on 21 January 1895. [1] His father, José Balenciaga Basurto, was a fisherman who died when Cristóbal was a boy, and his mother, Martina Eizaguirre Embil, a seamstress. As a child Balenciaga often spent time with his mother as she worked. [1]