good character design but the armor has boob cups
I relate strongly with this.
~Ozzie
It just struck me that one of the best things about Carol’s Captain Marvel suit is how hard the starburst+gold fringing makes it for sleazy artists to draw her in boob socks.
The more I think about this, the more I think that maybe this should become an aspect of costume design that is emphasised and taught everywhere.
– wincenworks
littlemure submitted to bikiniarmorbattledamage:
I was on a search for chain mail references when I stumbled upon this rather baffling image. A bit more digging led me to this page, full of all kinds of weird and worrisome painted on battle garb.
I’m not even sure how to tag this, my mind is just spinning over how on earth she managed to get this kit on in the first place.
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Oh god this bothers me so much I went into the other room and took a bunch of pictures of an actual chainmaille shirt just to compare how it hangs. I even added a leather waist cincher over the top I just happened to have laying around (it’s intended for a completely different costume, I can’t imagine many things more horrifyingly uncomfortable than encouraging a bunch of steel links to imbed themselves in your flesh).
I mean the interesting part is that, to an extent, chainmaille gets the closest to boob sock territory in real life I’ve seen because the material is so heavy it pulls itself down. It’s also so heavy it’s gunna flatten most boobs out, and push them to the side. It does not have the ability to suck itself up and under the bottom of the breast, and it certainly wouldn’t naturally wedge itself into butt crevices.
Thank you so much for providing such useful photo reference!
Let’s just add that if a person is planning to do anything more than modeling (like, I dunno, fighting?) while wearing chainmail on their bare skin… they might need to reconsider. There’s a reason gambeson is a thing.
Still, even if we suspended our belief enough to accept chainmail worn without padding, THAT is how it would look like, not this or this (NSFW).
~Ozzie
Even actual porn doesn’t bother with spandex chainmail because it turns out, most people have a pretty good idea what’s under the chainmail and there is nothing that warrants the ridiculous process of trying to make it skin tight without killing the wearer.
– wincenworks