Leather Armor? (NO HOLDS BARRED!!)

[hoplite14gr]

The shoe maker who made my thracian boots showed my that sole leather is very difficult to puncture even with drill or shoemakers knife.
If the leather muscle armor was formed and hardened into shape then it could offer good protection. I have my doubts if flexible soft leather armor was anything else but subarmalis or ceremonial.
Still it could be hardened torso armor with unhardened pteryges
A shortcut to make flaxible good leather armor was to make a soft leather brigantine with "encased" rombs of hard sole leather like in the reconstruction that Connolly did for the Ifficratidean peltast.
Just my two pennies worth.
Kind regards