Goose belly
The goose belly ( goose belly , double. Panseron à la polonaise , also à la Poulaine , prow) was in the 16th century part of men's fashion in the Spanish costume . It was a doublet with an elongated point that reached over the waist and created an artificial bulge. It lowered itself to a point at the front and was stuffed towards the middle with cotton and horse hair and thus hung like a cushion in front of the chest and stomach. The goose belly came around 1567 in France and Spain, and was also used by the mercenaries as one fastened with straps around his shoulders breastplate as an independent piece worn as an imitation of the plates harness on a suit of armor. The iron armor also took this form.
In France and the Netherlands it was in vogue from 1570 to 1590, but it was also worn by some German and English nobles.
Possibly the goose belly of the French King Henry III. invented what the French name of the garment would speak for, but it is ultimately not certain. In any case, he made it very popular. This fashionable attribute should give the gentlemen more stately. The mercenaries took up this fashion, which may have had a certain protective function as a bullet trap for them. After 1600 the fashion of the padded doublet and padded trousers ended .