Breastplates

One of the measures is a permanent ban on modern-day centurions – men who dress up in tunics and leather breastplates, wielding plastic swords – and make money by posing for photos.

Breastplates also are common, used to keep the saddle in place as the horse goes over large fences.

Breastplates and open front boots are usually worn.

Breastplates are also fairly common in dressage at an event, despite the fact that they are not seen at regular dressage shows.

Clifford Rogers has argued that while longbows might not have been able to penetrate steel breastplates at Agincourt they could still penetrate the thinner armour on the limbs.

In later periods, linen breastplates called linothorax were used, as they were tougher and cheaper to make.

Though he sent breastplates to Agamemnon and promised to send 50 ships, he sent only one real ship, led by the son of Mygdalion, and 49 ships made of clay.