Also you see the fouffy circle skirt thing?  That’s called a tonlet, and it existed for a good reason.  Basically armored pants have to have have joints so they can move, and joints mean gaps and gaps mean "OW MY KNEE/THIGH JOINT THE NAME OF WHICH I CAN’T REMEMBER, YOU STABBED IT WITH A SWORD AND/OR SPEAR!” 

You know what doesn’t need joints so you can move?  A bitchin’ metal version of Christian Dior’s new look.  So if you were doing hand to hand to hand combat, and at risk of knee injury, well then there you are.