Lovely how you pictured the codpiece on the left Mans crotch. They used these as a purse as well btw. All in all, really lovely done.

Thanks!

Ye Olde German soldiers of fortune. Dunno if I'd consider them stylish or not for their time lol.

I don't think it was necessarily about style - these guys were almost invariably huge imposing dudes well-built for swinging around halberds and giant swords, and the garish clothes with giant hats and puffy sleeves made them look even bigger. If you're a conscripted pikeman with basically a long wooden stick with a metal spike on the end and you see a mob of these guys hooting and hollering, waving around huge swords while their brightly-colored hats and feathers wave around crazily, you'd be well within reason to think some guys who were a lot more serious about war than you are were about to cut you to pieces. Part intimidation, part swag.

The more you know

I do my best to be educational! Hehe.

Not to mention at the time some clothes were "off limits" to certain members of society. The fact these mercenaries were allowed to/wore whatever they wanted, regardless of the sumptuary laws made them "bad boys" of their day. The way a man in a studded leather jacket, blue jeans and greased back hair would look in the 50s. He may look silly now, but if 7 start slowly walking towards you down a dark alley, its still gonna scare you.

Considering the landsknechts flaunted these laws and regulations they also gained notoriety in villages in ways a normal army didnt. Theres something magical about the clown army coming to town and eating all your food... but if the pikemen or standard infantry did it... its just another day at war.

Good point, I had not previously considered the fact that such dress codes were still at least nominally in force at that time.

And why should they not? :D

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.co.....4f5eb76ccf.jpg thats as colourful and less sexy XD

So jolly, bold and colourful. When I was at university they had these books of German woodcuts, reproductions from the 16th century and there were so many landsknechts like this.

When reading the comments section on FA is actually educational.

What universe am I in?

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