>>1155057Nuh. First of all he's got 0 patterns/decorations. These dudes were religious and superstitious and had a serious division of labour so all that shit would have some decoration or no one would buy it. My bet is he skipped it because it takes way too long to stamp a snake on your bag if you haven't been practising for 20 years.
Secondly, what all of these people do wrong is there's no form fitting. Which again is because form fitting today is expensive and difficult, but back then there was some old woman whose entire life revolved around that. Without form fitting, you can not wear clothes like that for real tasks and you'll look like you're a bedsheet ghost (like this guy). Even Hollywood movies do this way better.
Third there's no filth and wear or tear.
Forth all the colours are too bright and the pattern too fine, indicating modern processing of the raw material. First of all, bright colours were upper class only as the stains from being a peasant would make you look like shit in hours. Secondly sheeps wool was not white at this time, and it was rarely bleached before dying either.
Fifth purple was EXTREMELY expensive back then. You'd maybe see one or two rich varangian guard veterans wearing that, in your lifetime. Blue with red patterns was very common.
Sixth they generally waxed their shit. A bit of rain on that guy and he'd be double his weight from water retention.
Tbh this completely fictional hollywood character is probably more accurate due to form fitting and filth level.
