Lonin’s Victorian martial arts group uses different equipment and attire from the Fiore group.

Uniform

Gentlemen

The uniform for gentlemen is a white dress shirt, dark slacks, and dark shoes.

Ladies

The simplest option for ladies would be to wear what the gentlemen wear. The feminine equivalent would be something of roughly the correct vintage that would still allow freedom of movement. This is an area for further research.

A note on footwear

Part of the curriculum is savate, which involves kicking with the toe and edges of the shoe. This assumes that the practitioner is wearing traditional men’s leather shoes with hard, sharp edges. Performing such kicks against even a padded target at while wearing soft pliable fabric shoes (i.e. most common athletic trainers) places the practitioner at risk of foot injury, and so we recommend that harder, stiffer footgear be worn. Options include ordinary men’s leather dress shoes, steel-toed boots such as Doc Martens, and the extremely formidable Rockport Steel-Toe Wing Tips, currently the ultimate in weaponized gentleman’s footwear.

Other equipment

Not all of these are needed all of the time. In many cases, we have loaners. If fear of not having equipment is preventing you from showing up, then forget about it and just show up.

• For gentlemen, an athletic supporter with hard insert (cup)
• Mouth guard
• Shin/instep protectors such as are used in kickboxing/MMA training
• Hand wraps such as are used in boxing
• Fencing mask
• Padded gloves as described in Hand protection