this is a channel largely dedicated to analyzing fights in movies but you may be interested to know that my favorite thing to watch on youtube is currently costuming this video is sponsored by one dream and it will soon become very obvious why and i saw makara tour's video right before christmas where she made a holiday barbie dress and said that she got strong christmas warrior princess bags i think it might be time to commit sewing yeah there's no way i'm going to wear this the entire time the character that springs to mind when you say warrior princess is of course xena i was very up for some ancient greek vibes so i went to googling and i saw this video of professor greg aldrete and his group at the university of wisconsin green bay they did some experimental archaeology and figured out that it's possible to make reasonably good armor by taking layers of linen and layering them and if you laminate them with glue then you might be able to shoot your friend with an arrow and not hurt him please don't try that at home now i don't have an opinion on the lena thorax as part of the archaeological debate but i do have a sneaking fondness for textile armor so i thought why not make one of those but make it more holiday barbie so i bought some things i mean not linen i bought two cotton bed sheets two meters of sequined fabric NUMBER_TOKEN meters of random fabric in a box from ebay some sparkly rhinestone things yeah those never came and a truly ridiculous amount of pva glue and a truly marvelous thing happened when the random fabric arrived handy because look how shiny and silver so i moved mannequin skywalker into the living room because it's cold outside covered her in a bin bag to protect her from future gluing endeavors took the pattern for the corselet drafted by the experimental archaeology people attempted to recreate it in cardboard in approximately my size and completely messed it up i'm an idiot look look at this the front is high and the back i wondered i thought this doesn't seem right like where's the protection at the front but yeah i'm an idiot that's what the problem is this kind of armor is supposed to be high at the front and also at the back to protect you know your neck and your upper chest that sort of thing there isn't meant to be a cutout for the neck there are just meant to be cutouts for the arms anyway i made the shoulder pieces out of cardboard much more successfully and then went back and fixed the chest piece with some extra cardboard and tape and it turned out fine for a given value of fine the lenathorax prototypes put together by the experimental archaeologists use a minimum of NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN layers of linen and they use rabbit glue but this is fashion and so i used a lot of pva glue because fabric glue is expensive and i didn't think that hot glue would really work for what i was trying to do did the pva glue work ah sort of it has definitely made it stiffer i definitely wouldn't recommend pva glue as the way to do this but it it has sort of done the thing i wanted possibly if i'd mixed it with water it would have been better something to try for next time perhaps anyway
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