Making a leather covered quilted linen cuirass

[Theodosius the Great]

I'm a little confused. Are you planning to make a Greek style linothorax and use it as a Roman subarmalis to wear underneath lorica hamata/segmentata/squamata? Or are you going to wear the subarmalis by itself as armor?

Christian Koepfer has a nice page on evidence for the subarmalis here. But the page seems to be temporarily down at the moment.

~Theo