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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8672935" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Really depends on how the cuirass is formed. If it's boiled plates strung or fastened together, it's much easier than a more solid one-piece cuirass.For example, a leather version of the lorica segmentata.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3e/4a/32/3e4a323ec21130cc1a78e6f5a4d91261.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Overlaying segments of leather protection arranged in such a way as to provide flexibility. Yes, each ring is boiled and hardened making it a pain in the behind to don, but it's far less difficult to move in than, say, linothorax.<img src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/linothorax-arrow1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Because while the Linothorax was made of layered and glued linen, it became about as hard as bone or plaster. Highly inflexible and you had to be stitched into it. Also it smelled like rotting meat which sucked.Brigandine (Studded Leather for most people) with it's interlocking metal plates to give increased flexibility and mobility.[MEDIA=youtube]WzhAhRZzCrA[/MEDIA]I'm not saying it's -flawless- or anything. But the design of a given suit of leather armor, or linothorax, or brigandine, is going to make a big impact on how easy or difficult it's going to be, regardless of the material it is made of.</blockquote>