# Shirt of Mail

- By: European
- Date: mid–16th century
- Medium: Iron
- Classification: Armor
- Dimensions: 73.1 × 114.3 × 4.5 cm (28 3/4 × 45 × 1 3/4 in.)
- Culture: Middle East
- Credit line: George F. Harding Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/118545)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/d698bdd623e1b67d7af26efd9bac8d6a.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This European Shirt of Mail is a short sleeved shirt of mail, of iron links, formed of fairly small riveted rings throughout; the shirt is open down the front for its entire length; at the back is a slit from the bottom almost up to the center; clean with some losses at edges, the mail lacks its collar.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0