cross
dressing
out
fits
in case anyone else covets bookishness about
metal clothing


>Dear Indecoress & al,
>
>Well-made armor distributes its weight a-x the body. Like a heavy b/pack,
a
>well-made suit can be worn lightly; a far more serious issue would be
>ventilation. Yes the Magyars invented the Hussar (meaning derived from "1
in
>20" their draft or national guard) & yes they ended up in Hungary but they
were
>Light Cavalry & did not wear armored coats. The wings you re to are the
>feature of the Uhlan or Polish Lancer (another stripe of Middle-European
Lt.
>Cav which, like the Hussar, became popular in other nation's military
>establishments) – the attributes of the Hussar are soft red felt boots,
the
>"sabertache" (or military purse), the dolman (or multi-laced tunic), the
>pelisse (a short fur-trimmed jacket usually worn off one shoulder); the
>headdress could be a shako or busby but was originally disdained as the
>soldiers shaved their heads & the more notable ones wove eagle-feathers
into
>their scalps. Officers had horse-furniture covered in the pelts of showy
>predators (leopards, tigers, &c). They were armed w/ saber, carbine,
pistols,
>& whip. [see Gericault & al for illustration of the type at its most
>sartorially involved:
http://www.military-art.com/images/xvar308_small.jpg &
>sites like this: http://www.histomin.com/housekeeping/pghussarsfr.htm for
>diagramatics]
>
>The armored soldier did not wear a "suit", there was a brief period after
>gunpowder weaponry became ubiquitous on the battlefield when discrete
pieces of
>armor were traded for plates to protect the vitals, plates thick enuf to
stop
>bullets. This was the case w/ the Ironsides of the New Model Army & w/ the
>Conquistadors, after this such breast- & back-plates were only worn by
certain
>sorts of Heavy Cavalry (Cuirassiers, Carabiniers, &c), & eventually became
>ceremonial (at the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars), since a plate heavy
enuf
>to stop a rifled musketball would be too heavy to wear – So gendarmes,
>("knights in armor") cannot be considered "soldiers", they were warriors
of the
>ruling class & only w/ difficulty could they be integrated into a military
>establishment (under exceptional commanders like Coer de Leon) – & w/
only a
>few exceptions there were no such establishments (in Europe) from 478 to
1478.
>Medieval "armies" would look to us more like modern street-gangs than
modern
>military. A soldier is by definition a "professional" ('til the coming of
>mass-warfare & drafting in parallel w/ the French Revolution) – a knight,
as
>an aristocrat, cannot by definition have a profession.
>
>The armor of a mounted knight was not a defense, it was a weapon (weight
of man
>+ weight of horse x speed = shock).
>
>best,
>
>Blackhawk.
>
>
>
>indecoress wrote:
>
>> <…>
>> What to do if your body is made of target and a second part affects
itself:
>> indecoress reminisces back: ""the ambivalence of the weight of a coat of
>> armour i saw in a museum in vienna moved an intriguing touch in that
[can you
>> seriously wonder?] steeling the self is a form of grounding rather than
>> erasure; perhaps you are an egocentric if you are only looking from the
>> positioned perspective of what you can reach. and just as the material
>> predicament foregrounded itself in hungary magyar hussar armour coats add
>> iron wings to stretch material into metaphorically-tooled extras"".

…………………………..



>showy predators
lovingly pawed
with interest

By
indecoress: [helmet]
re made of:
__ bullet
proof
[reader]
What to do when your body is made of target:
""distribute a well-made coat""-

a tourist
guided >
is caught
interior
decorating
out-
donning pelisse and horse-furniture and
""sabertache !!!
}}primp
{ ruffle
to read the gap
between 'pedal'/'pedestrian'

my
>""wings you re to are the
breastplated
[glass case: budapest museum]
sight of an artefact
double-glazed by haphazard mnemonics

indecoress reminisces:""old things respond
when a second part affects
your
>""wings you re to
and they become
>Well-made weight >distributed via
>research, when faced with
calumny
>which, like the hussar, became popular in other nation's military
establishments




indecoress





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