"Lindybeige's take on mail coifs" Topic

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So what does the good people say?

Makes sense to me.

You can put a coif on without an arming cap.

But you can't take it off again.

Here's how it goes:

Coif goes on….

You fight your battle….

Then you spend fifteen minutes wincing and watery-eyed untangling the damn thing link by knotted link, from your hair.

(I speak from experience here!)

Queued up to watch – thanks!

Here's a video on aventails.

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From what I know is that most forms of mail seem to have been used with some kind of undergarment, liner or padding.

It seems to me that the coif would have had at least one or more layers of cloth underneath to make it wearable, as to how much padding, you'd have to experiment and see what looks most plausible.