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I often wonder how much protection they did/were meant to offer? I find the idea of clothes which double somewhat towards protection quite interesting really. They probably wouldn't stop a direct thrust, but a glancing slash or thrust?
You have:
>The leather stocks
>Thick epaulettes on the shoulders
>Thick cuffs
>Buff leather crossbelts which covered the shoulders and chest and a brass plate in the centre
>Gorgets, such as they were
>The plates and metal chinstraps on the shakos
What does /k think?
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>>32828448
A cavalryman's belts and sabretache
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Courtesy bump for interest
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>>32828448
Surprising those epaulettes would stop a cut quite well. Source: military sabre fencer here
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>>32828448
itt we watch sharpe
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>>32828448
Shakos themselves probably offered a little protection in terms of bulk and fucking with your proportions. If you're a cavalryman on a horse, you have to cut through an foot thick blob of wool and fur trying to stab you with a bayonet to get at the guy under it all.
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