This highly protective warrior outfit has about a bazillion layers. I just made this - I didn't think about taking pictures when I was working (who cares anyway), but here's the finished outfit top half unflattened in Photoshop.

Here I uploaded the lower half targa file to the Second Life previewer, where it can be viewed as an image, hair, top, eye, etc. The checkerboard indicates the transparent area that I made in Photoshop with an alpha layer so that some avatar nudiness can happen. The box on the top right is the bottom of the foot.

This is the same file viewed as a woman's lower body. I preview a trillion times as I check and mend mismatched seams or other discrepancies.

I uploaded the top of the outfit, and paid $10 Linden. Then I can use that uploaded texture to make articles of clothing. This could be used for an upper-body garment (jacket,shirt, or undershirt) and a pair of gloves.

Osprey is modeling the finished outfit - that's my neighbor Art-in-Munich's house and Salazar's tower behind. I wanted to make some spikes and stick them in the garment, but I wound up putting the deck on my head by mistake when I had the tiny prim selected and was moving it - so now there's a wee tiny prim lost inside my deck. I moved the deck around but I can't see the stupid thing. I usually make things bright colors if I'm working with small prims, but I didn't do that. Oh well. Then I TPed to Numbakulla to work there and SL crashed. It's been a little touchy lately. Yesterday Enj IMed me as soon as I got online and we went bungee jumping at Spitoonie. She said she'd been crashing all day.
Update: I went to Numbakulla ans made 5 purpley spikes for each leather cuff/top of gauntlet (can be either). I tinted the scabbard purple. Actually I hate purple but the color just evolved as part of the design.