"Traditional", as in vampires that appear in traditional European folklore, not the modern emo teen version, or the Victorian opera cape wearing version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire#Folk_beliefs
Lol WTH!!?!! Never heard of that one before Yeah, when you look into traditional folk beliefs you can find some really weird stuff.
I have and I think it's very interesting, because I mean. The Count on Sesame Street likes to count. Which 100% checks out.
... those would chafe. I doubt any vampire (or human) would wear them without being forced into them. Seriously, no-one ever knowingly put on anything made of metal without lots of padding underneath. Breastplates, helmets, anything. Have you ever tried wearing chainmail next to your skin? One word of advice: don't. So ... how would you force a vampire to wear such things? The vampire is stronger than you, older than you, has claws and a bite weapon, and you'd need to get ... um ... close. Really close. And I'd think the vampire would protest - and not nicely, either. For all these reasons, I don't think this would work. (Let's not even go into the obvious fact that metallic "clothing" like breastplates etc. needs to be tailor-made for the wearer. How would you convince a vampire to let a blacksmith take his/her, um ... "hip measurements"? Ahem).
Vampires are always so well turned out. Show me a male vampire and I'll show you a gentleman with a tailor. Even Nosferatu looked fantastic in that coat, it was clearly Savile Row. Get to the tailor; threaten to expose the tailor's dirty secret (shops at H&M?) until he agrees to stitch silver chainmail into the vampire's next set of tweeds.
Yes, BUT ... I imagine a vampire, being so sensitive to silver, would know that the silver is there, and refuse to wear it? Here's another thing to do to a vampire with silver: pay him to leave you alone.
How about very fine silver chain mail sewed inside the trousers and/or the jacket, with sugar paper stuck over the chainmail so it doesn't touch the skin. Our vampire doesn't detect anything... Until it rains... Unfortunately that is off topic however. EDIT: Especially as silver won't work anyway, as you pointed out earlier. I don't think werewolves have tailors. Alternative to holy water along the same lines: Vampire is tied to the chair (somehow). He is ravenous, been kept there for days. In front of him there is a slow, irregular drip, drip of fresh blood from a blood bag. Its dripping uselessly on the floor just inches from him and he can't get at it.
Imagine you have a room with a lens positioned by the window. It concentrates sunlight into a narrow beam. As the sun moves across the sky, the light beam moves slowly towards the spreadeagled vampire. Vampire: "Hssss! Do you want me to talk?" Hunter: "No, Mr. Vampire. I want you to die."
HAHAH! I like this, too. But that's damn expensive. But hey, a silver coins is about $50 USD. So maybe not that much.
