Subarmalis designs?

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Another reconstruction hit the internet today of AppiusLucretiusMartiusAudaxAlma.



I have asked him where he found any evidence for it but he could not state it.

Personally I think it is far fetched and I would go for quilted/padded garments like this
simple construction :



And I must say that I like what Appius has done to some emperor images :



There is also however a tendency amongst Legionary re-enactors to wear subarmalia for which not that much proof is in existence. Of course there are some reliëfs which show this garment worn by what look to be Legionary Milites Gregarii. However that does not convince me that it was widely worn.

So I would go for quilted/padded or indeed felt.

M.VIB.M.