I found this armour in a web site and i was wondering how accurate are the mail in the elbows of the armour, and specially, the mail skirt with that fang shape, since it is a later XVI century armours.
In the second photo the guy is wearing a cloth skirt of the doublet under armour, Did that type of doublet had mail defences in the armpits? Were longer skirted doublet worn under faulds like the third photo accurate too, or it was more a matter of fashion than defence?
Thanks for the replies guys, since some Museums don´t use to expose armours with thier respective cloth-mail defences, leting someone with poor knowledge of the subject think that knights, men-at-arms and lords went into battle with armpits, elbows and other gaps defenseless against a deadly pike blow.
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