 It is often disputed which torso armor the Spartans wore during the Persian Wars, though it seems likely they either continued to wear bronze cuirasses of a more sculptured type, or instead had adopted the "linothōrax".During the later 5th century BC, when warfare had become more flexible and full-scale phalanx confrontations became rarer, the Greeks abandoned most forms of body armor.The Lacedaemonians also adopted a new tunic, the "exōmis", which could be arranged so that it left the right arm and shoulder uncovered and free for action in combat.