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Originally Posted by fernando
It must have been hell to keep head (and body) inside these apparatuses; in a warm/hot climate, they become as hot as stoves. In reading chronicles of the (Portuguese) discoveries period in India, those who wore armour couldn't stand the heat and often had to take them off ... and apparently not the reinforced version.
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Hence the popularity of wearing mail armour in the Middle East and other hot places. Air could circulate and heat evaporate.
