It will be seen that the sollerets have lost the long-pointed form, though they have not yet reached the broad-toed shape which became fashionable with Henry VIII.
The feet seem in this example to be simply clothed with shoes, like those of the archer, instead of being defended by pointedsollerets of overlapping plates, like those seen in our other illustrations.
The legs and arms were now entirely encased in plates of armour, with sollerets on the feet, which were acutely pointed at the toes in imitation of the prevailing civil fashion.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century the pointedsollerets gave place to the broad-toed sabbatons (Fig.
The sollerets and a few other parts of the suit are restorations.
The chausses are of banded ring mail protected in front by jambarts and genouillières, while the sollerets are of mixed mail and plate.
The genouillières have only a lower reinforcement, and the sollerets are comparatively short.
These broad-toed sollerets were introduced during the later part of the previous period, those of Piers Gerard (date 1492) being illustrated on p.
The Cheynes appear to have been a family addicted to peculiarities, as Sir William Cheyne, 1375, has laminated sollerets of remarkable construction and also quite unique (see Fig.
A waved fringe of mail appears below the five taces; the genouillières have prominent projections over the knee-caps and are very ornamental, while the sollerets have a decorative gousset of chain mail.
In order to complete the figure a chain-mail hauberk has been lent from the Tower, and the tuilles and sollerets have been made.
Upon the feet are Sollerets consisting of five lames of plate riveted together and kept in place by two straps passing under each foot.
Don Alonso wears pointedsollerets of six plates, and the hauberk of mail beneath a surcoat.
The whole suit conforms to the elegant simplicity of the earlier fashion, but the size of the left pauldron or shoulder-guard and the shape of the sollerets show the influence of the new.
The junction of the jambs and sollerets is similarly strengthened by mail.
The sollerets and perhaps some other pieces are restorations.
The sollerets are well made, unpointed, and leave the red stocking exposed at the toe and heel.
The leg-defences and sollerets do not differ appreciably from those already noticed.
In the Warwick collection a pair of sollerets are made each of one piece like sabots.
The long curved sollerets with pointed toes of the second half of the fourteenth century are called pouleynes or poulaines, from the souliers a la Polaine, and differ slightly from those known as Cracowes, introduced by Richard II.
There are two fine pointed solleretsat Warwick, one measuring twenty-five inches from toe to heel, or with the spur thirty-two and a half inches.
The gauntlets andsollerets are also of excellent workmanship.
The sollerets are complete and take the shape of the foot.
The sollerets are square-toed with long rowelled spurs.
The sollerets being made, like the gauntlets, each of thirteen pieces, are also extremely flexible, and reproduce in an exaggerated way the great broad toes of the civil dress.
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