Plate was worn over chain, because chain could cover areas that needed to be flexible and couldn’t be easily covered by rigid plate: the back of the knee, the armpit, sometimes the groin and sometimes the inside of the elbow, etc.
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Plate was worn over chain, because chain could cover areas that needed to be flexible and couldn’t be easily covered by rigid plate: the back of the knee, the armpit, sometimes the groin and sometimes the inside of the elbow, etc.