What is this (L. Roman)?

[Peeler]

I quite like a bit of leather meself.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Is that a quid a bottle or a quid a glass for hock, though?
Cos I'm all about the quality.

It's more "How much is that Hockney in the window?"

[Paul]

Making LM to measure had nothing to do with the wearer's musculature.
It's about things like torso length and enabling arm movement.

Just like Mail armour which is much more labour intensive to make. You have to make sure that the weight is able to be carried correctly with that too.

[Paul]

Face - and, as the kids say - palm.

Of course they're leather.
That was my whole point - see my first post.

Yeah, but I was quoting and replying to your second post where you were still talking about metal Cuirass

[Buff Redux]

Only one way to settle this.

FIGHT !

[goat major]

Only one way to settle this.

FIGHT !

In leather cuirasses !

[Jamanicus]

I'm not sure what the fight is about?? Correct reasons why it's leather and not metal LM??

[Paul]

Only one way to settle this.

FIGHT !

Can we have a duel?...I'll take the pistols, Norm can have the swords

[Norman D. Landings]

Making LM to measure had nothing to do with the wearer's musculature.
It's about things like torso length and enabling arm movement.

Just like Mail armour which is much more labour intensive to make. You have to make sure that the weight is able to be carried correctly with that too.

LOLNO.

A mail shirt two inches too long is just two inches longer than the next guy's. (Phrasing)

Make Lorica Musculata two inches too long,the neck rim will come up and smack you on the chin at every stride.

The length of a mailshirt is easily wearer-adjustable by just hanging some over your belt.
(Which, incidentally, is how you carry some of the weight.)

Lorica Musculata is not wearer-adjustable in the slightest short of hacking a bit off.
Probably not a centurion-approved procedure.

[FreddBloggs]

I quite like a bit of leather meself.

Well you already have the handcuffs and truncheon.