Prototyping Custom Female Armor - Part 1. Identifying needs and issues with current armor.
Some initial study into female armor for HEMA. What else do we start with than to see what is currently out there and done in the past. Do we even need to improve the designs out there? Turns out, ABSOLUTELY. HEMA females are stuck in some weird corner of ignoring what's already been solved for some reason; I suspect this is in part because there is overall very little information about female armor building, and in part because people are building inferior products. From what I can gather, there seems to be a severe lack of people actually trying to address the needs of a female body in armor. There are only two schools of thought right now, and all of those only address ONE issue of females in armor--which is truly a non-issue and should have been quickly figured out and dismissed based on historical designs. Allow me digress a bit and explain. Initial forays into what was going on with female armor from a historical perspective (an attempt to see what has been done in the past)