Armor Fashion of Mr. William C + Chinese Armormen：飞廉超先生 + 铁羽踏白: 中国甲胄男团
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Blending fashion, storytelling, and tradition, Mr. William C and Chinese Armormen 铁羽踏白: 中国甲胄男团 often showcases a blistering array of heroic figures wearing Chinese armor. Professional models and armor enthusiasts, their armors ranges from gritty historical to stylized and aesthetic.
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For instance some armor enthusiasts in China actually thinks these types of armor are actually just parade and ceremonial armors. And Tang records do make note of certain type of suits as for parades and rituals.
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By Mid and late Tang you actually see statues and potteries of armors that look like the classic image of what the modern people refer to as those armors but as you said, none have been found. Historians (real ones I mean, at most I only consider myself an enthusiast and an avid blogger) have to be conservative with their conclusions- capital Conservative as in only stating what is irrefutably known, and I tend to agree.
However I really don't agree with the argument that they are just "mistaken" Chain armor. It's not, because Ming etc DID purposely depict chain armors and they look like circular linking chains, another is that there are Ming statues with generals with mixed chain and mountain patter armors. Furthermore, contemporary Central Asian artists have many scenes where soldiers who are wearing mountain pattern armors are fighting with warriors in chainmails. Since they are drawn close to the rule of the Khans I do not think they'd be just drawing things that are non existence to patrons who are well familiar with armors.