Nope . That wasn ' t free . That ' ll be $ 3 . 99 <| sep |> Whats the significance of the picture ? <| sep |> And it worked ! <| sep |> That ' s what forced me into finally making a Pinterest account . Every goddamn picture of a potential project . <| sep |> You couldn ' t find a picture of an actual surcoat ? Seriously ? Like not one ? . Because the reason actual historians and such can use statutes as examples is because they ' ll actually have paragraphs of text explaining why its definitely an accurate depiction of what they ' re talking about , or what elements of the statute is accurate and which isn ' t , you ' re not a literary source , it ' s not a strawman to point out you ' re using bad examples , that ' s actual , proper criticism . Stop trying to compare yourself to an expert , at this point you could have a phd on this and you ' d still have almost no credibilityAnd 1 , the gaps are more or less consistent with the coat of plates . 2 , yes , the only of your examples extends beyond the waist . coatofplates . htmlThere ' s a coat of plates that extends beyond the waist . Believe it or not , there are a lot of variations on how armour was designed , they weren ' t the perfect versions of each , largely in part because metal was fairly expensive and sometimes a sacrifice had to be made between price and protection .