Clothing question from manual

[RayMcCullough]

I am trying to find out what they are wearing in Codex Wallerstein. On the cover or plate 1, what are the strings hanging of the bottom of his blouse? On the other plates in part 1, the two combatants have a split down the front of their blouses. What is that exactly? Is it open, or is that a decoration? and Why does the cotch area look segmented? Is that a style or decoration like the cod piece?

Are these jacks or gambesons? I ask this because I was wondering if this was a outfit only the warriors would wear or a civilian garb as well. I thought it might have been more of an warriors clothing. In the "how to rob a peasant" plate they are wearing different styles of blouses.

[JeffGentry]

Ray

I think it is the style of clothe's of the day in the late 15th c they wore split hose and either pointed(tied) the pant's(hose) to the doublet or wore a pourpoint under the doublet which was for tieing the pant's too, the diamond shape in front is most likely for a cod piece.

They also did have arming doublet's which armour was pointed(tied) too, If you look at some other manual's you will see similar thing's, Von Auerswald has point's on his pant's in his wrestling manual from 1539.


Jeff