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[[File:Book of Maccabees1.png|thumb|Short mail shirt<br>Book of Maccabees]]
==Short mail shirts to just below the waist==
''A mail shirt that stops a couple of inches below the belt. Sleeves are usually to the elbow but can extend to the wrist.''
It would appear that the typical 8th - 9th century mail shirt seems to end just below the belt line. Some of them appear as though they may be vandyked or side split – see below.
[[File:T49 f.18v 1.png|thumb|Vandyked mail shirt<br>T49 f.18v BL Cotton Cleopatra C VIII]]
===Vandyked mail shirt===
Vandykes are a triangular finish to the hem and sometimes the cuff of a mail shirt.
[[File:La Vie De Saint Aubin 1.png|thumb|Long unsplit mail shirt<br>La Vie De Saint Aubin]]
==Long unsplit mail shirts from below groin to knee==
''A mail shirt that reaches to the thigh, with sleeves that usually come to the elbow.''
They appear common on such sources as the Bayeux Tapestry and continue to make appearances on numerous manuscripts from the 1060’s onwards although they nether totally replace the traditional unsplit mail shirt.
[[File:Hildesheimer Cathedral.png|thumb|Mail shirt with short front split<br>Hildesheimer Cathedral]]
===Short Split===
''A mail shirt to the knee with a small slit in the skirt and sleeves to the elbow.''
* 980AD Byzantine [NICOLLE 2005: p.51]
[[File:T86 Hexateuch1.png|thumb|Mail shirt with Bayeux style front split<br>T86 Hexateuch]]
===Bayeux Style===
''Interpreted as either a front split mail shirt or alternatively a mail shirt with mail shorts.''