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Heroic Knight
 
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| Hahahahaha thats brilliant, yeah i never quite realised it either, but i guess its there. As to my knitt mail, as i am sure you will agree its very hard to tell the difference, i'll show you a example. 
(Yes i am on the left its quite obvious). Knittmail works well if you hide it with plate or other things, it by itself does not look right but it works amazingly well as a secondary load of armour underneath leather or platemail per say.
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Our left, or your left?  But I agree with your statement on knit mail. I`ve worn mine with only bits showing from under my surcoat and gloves and it looks ace, while by itself, it looks quite appalling.
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Heroic Knight
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| yeah i totally agree. Well if anyone believes my good friend Garwulf beside me is wearing Knittmail then they must be colour blind! So i'll let you decide if its my left or your left  Knittmail rocks, for of course, you only need a decent phys rep 
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Nah. It's better than the really cheap stuff (you obviously have theatrical quality stringmail rather than home-made) but it still looks naff, doesn't hang right, and is at least a bit cheaty in a combat-oriented game. If you want to use it in a game where combat only occurs an average of once a year, or is resolved with scissors-paper-stone, no worries. Otherwise I put it in the same category as drum-rolling, or whinging about OOC stuff to gain an IC advantage -- technically allowed in many games, but no fun & not in the spirit of the game.
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Maximas's photo shows woolymail at it's best -unbroken, good thick weave, good colouring and mostly hidden beneath other good kit. It looks good as costume armour goes (mainly because you hardly notice it).
But it doesn't look like the real deal. Chainmaille in whatever form of metal links you choose to find it acceptable is markedly different from any wool variety. In my opinion, it is better. It looks like the real thing, because (to a greater or lesser degree according to design, colour and materials) it is.
My vote is for metal chain.
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Heroic Knight
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| I agree, chainmail is better, but when you are fighting with latex weapons and shields which weigh the same as a pack of crisps, then why are people getting angry about it? LARP systems say a good phys rep so, so be it, it is Not reenactment. I find it hilarious personally when people get upset over stringmail, i understand getting angry over it if those people are using it as heavy armour without anything else consisting as heavy, but, LARP is LARP, its not the real thing, i can say the same thing about latex weapons, and shields, and people wearing steel armour that probably couldnt take a real blow from a sword, so the arguement is pretty pointless! Again though i do see where people are comming from, but i think stringmail (which is coated with a heavy lead paint, so it does weigh a bit when you pick it up seriously) and norton armories armour counts fine?
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Your kit does look good and I can't argue with your point about latex swords and light shields, most of what we use isn't the real thing so why get wound up over chain..
The thing that jumped out of the photo of your chain is the way the right sleeve is creased up where you are resting it on your knee. Metal chain doesn't behave like that because it's made of metal and tends to observe gravity more, that was one of my real beefs with the string mail the soldiers were wearing in Robin Hood, they had these bizarre burkha type face masks and they were all creased up on the chest rather than hanging straight down like real chain would.
Is this a rational beef? No it isn't but it is the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the photo.
What do I hate about real chain? The way it doesn't hide my gut like any decent baggy shirt/ Stringmail does, it just says "here is this man's belly and he drinks too much beer"
So to sum up this pointless ramble, if you are happy with your stringmail then good luck and go for it but I reserve the right to moan into my beer about physreps after a day trapsing around in my 21lbs (the lightweight suit) of chain under the off scale suit of Plate 
Jenko
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