Small question: What armour is this?

[paullus]

True, the main reason I brought it up was for the two clearly different types of material underneath the shoulder flap. The darker material would seem to be the more rigid, but both are rigid enough that the shoulder piece springs up in the air, rather than just flopping down after the connector (to the main part of the cuirass) had been untied.

EDIT: and I'd say that, for the chest piece of the left soldier, the sections in the picture are a) too small for scale, and b) rectangular, and so unfitting with most representations of scale armor. I agree that the extent of the stitching--if that is what it is--is remarkable, but these seem to be relatively wealthy soldiers, so we might expect they could go a few steps farther to increase the viability of types of armor. Increased stitching would surely increase the effectiveness of padded/quilted armor, by making shorter (and so less vulnerable) seams and an overall tighter construction.