Chain Mail Shirts and Coifs for Reenactors

Chainmail can give you flexibility and is tougher than ordinary padding. Knights of the Middle Ages usually wore a mail shirt and coif under their armor for...See more » Chainmail can give you flexibility and is tougher than ordinary padding. Knights of the Middle Ages usually wore a mail shirt and coif under their armor for better defense from enemy blows. Today many people use it as an interesting display piece in their home. Others still wear some form of mail under their armor in the SCA or at the Renaissance Fair. There are also those who make their own by buying loose rings and weaving them together in their own patterns.See less »