Tag: female armor

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I’m a lady-type person with a large rack (Around european cup size 75j-80j). At this size binding doesn’t really work (at least for me – sports bras don’t really do enough either) What kind of armor you reckon would work best for a large bust?

I don’t have a lot of experience in building armor myself, but I reached out to a friend who’s been into extremely enthusiastic for several decades and happens to be a woman.  Her recommendation is a globose breastplate with padding for additional support.  Something like these:

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(Joan of Arc by Albert Lynch (x) and Knightess by TypeSprite (x))

It is possible that one made off a peg suit you, but more likely that you would need one custom made.  Regardless you’d be going to a smooth deflective curve such as in the illustrations above.  Plate armor like this is actually quite roomy in order to allow movement, so there’ll be plenty of room to add supportive padding.

Globose breastplates are held on with a harness, so with firm padding should be able to restrain even the mightiest bosom.  Similar armoring techniques were often used when making custom suits for rotund nobles,  Henry VIII of England armors show a gradually increasing girth throughout his life.

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(Photo by Chuck, King Henry VIII’s armor in the Tower of London’s Royal Armouries.)

– wincenworks

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Hey, I was thinking about female armors and whatnot and the I found a good question people should ask themselves before designing them which is: would Brienne of Tarth wear it? And if the answer is no, they should just do it again.

Personally I am always reluctant to recommend any character as definitive judge of armor.  Brienne is certainly awesome and the representation of her by Gwendoline Christie has been amazing, but not without some questionable armoring decisions:

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Really I think the bigger factor involved should be, “How will this make people look at the my character? What will they see?”

Brienne is but one of many possibilities, and part of what’s fueled the bikini armor trope is that creators got lazy and decided there’s just one type of heroine.  A sexy one, with long legs, tight clothes and big boobs.

So rather than simply replacing her with a big butch one, we should be looking at exploring all the different kinds of badassery we can have.  History of is full of badass women, many of whom used weapons and armor entirely different to Brienne of Tarth.  Fiction should also be filled with similar diversity – hence Bikini Armor Battle Damage approves of many armors that Brienne probably wouldn’t.

Women of different cultures, different time periods and with different access to materials or facing different types of opponents. From the pages of history, for example:

This is before we account for things like different levels of suspension of disbelief, fantasy elements, etc.

Female warriors should be as diverse in culture, personality and appearance as male.   Which is one reason why we love dogbomber’s Let’s Draw Lady Knights Character Generator.

– wincenworks

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reyairia:

reyairia:

A gameshow that forces male nerds into the unnecessarily sexualized outfits female video game characters have that they defend as “practical,” and then makes them do agility training

this had sixty notes last night

SIXTY NOTES

Invitation to that show should be sent to everyone whose argumentation is worth playing the Female Armor Rhetoric Bingo with.

~Ozzie