 Tassets are now frequently knee-length, in the cuirassier fashion.Also, in keeping with innovations in the field of armouring, the inner elbows are often fully protected by articulated lames.Nevertheless, the Greenwich armours even into the period of the English Civil War retained some of the distinctive touches of the last century; the breastplates were still shaped in the peascod fashion and the pauldrons had the same graceful and rounded curves (while those of Continental armours tended towards square shapes).