While “breastplate stretcher” was clearly a cruel joke, were there ways armour could be modified to fit a person’s changing body size? Most people don’t stay the same size their whole life and steel doesn’t stretch.

You deal with changing body size by buying new armor. 

Hence why we can actually chart Henry VIII’s growth and physical decline from his various suits of armor

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