Equipment manufacturers also give them as promotional items. The tare, also of felt and cloth construction, protects the hip and groin. There is no legal target on the tare. Overlapping the tare is the chest protector, called the do. The do is constructed of from 48 to 64 bamboo staves, covered in leather and lacquered.
Cheap ones are fibreglass.
The do protects the entire front of the chest, and extends around the sides to protect from roughly the hip bone to the first couple of ribs. The kote protect the hands and wrists. The backs of the hands and knuckles are covered in heavy padding with a leather exterior. In good quality kote this padding is deer hair, whilst lower grade kote are stuffed with cotton or synthetic wadding. The portion of the kote covering the wrists is constructed like the men padding.