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As you can presume, chainmail is made from various metals. It is usually a lighter metal that is durable enough to make a suit but comfortable so that it doesn’t hurt you. There are no rough edges or anything. Gertrude & Brunhilda in The KAMics. The author did put them in full armor once, much to the displeasure of his readers.
Subverted by Kaff Tagon's father, who made various jokes about Tagon's crotch-hugging armour - to the point that Tagon had a NEW set made which looks more business-like (even if he had to use the tailor robot his father sent to him). Dungeons & Dragons. This trope was ubiquitous in early product art, and continues to this day, albeit somewhat less gratuitously. What's New with Phil and Dixie had a bit of fun with the idea here. And mentioned a possible problem here. From a paint perspective, there isn't much wrong, with generally clean paintwork across all armour and outfit parts. Blood effects on the weapons and armour are again, not photorealistic, but get the job done. The materials seem appropriate for their usage, and I like how the hands are quite soft such that you can open them up with ease for grasping accessories. Even the male characters weren't safe from this. Look at the artwork for Guy, a character from Final Fantasy II. He may have even pioneered the style.
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In Axis Powers Hetalia, Hungary is shown in both official and fan works as wearing revealing and form-fitting armor similar to the ones she wore as a child. Which also show her Boobs of Steel rather prominently. The elemental archfiend of Wind, Barbariccia, wears nothing more than a bikini. Then again, she might not need armor seeing as she's more of a force of nature and forms a protective whirlwind with her own hair. And Munchkin Impossible introduces the "Bulletproof Bikini", which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Sisters Repentia units from the same army run around in rags or scraps of parchment, while Dark Eldar Wyches fight in Alien Polymer Bikinis because their superhuman reflexes make heavy armor unnecessary.
Zig Zagged: Attire goes across the board; most members of both genders dress reasonably, but there are a few outliers on both extremes. A few girls and guys show off tons of skin, while others cover up so much it's amazing they can move under all that weight. Some of the Coalition Mark II armor's get to have their cake and eat it too. The underlaying armor is a matte body suit of flexible megadamage material and then the female suits get boob tooling to invoke the trope without actually falling prey to it. Anyone in the 5 feet 5 inch or less range won't be able to swing a sword bigger than a butter knife.The Battle Bikini is partly justified in Bikini Karate Babes: Word of God says that the ladies get their powers from having blood of their enemies on their skin. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within suffers this with Shadee, who wears a metal thong-type getup that redefines Stripperiffic. Penny Arcade covers it quite well, in addition to the Prince's generic rage. The group needs to sneak into the Big Bad's base and they need to disguise themselves, but Sayuka just walks in cause she isn't wearing much and the guards are just Distracted by the Sexy. Dragon Quest III had a swimsuit armor that actually changed the pixels of a female character who wore it. Its armor class is terrible though. Fortunately, there's a randomly dropped "Magic Bikini" that provides the same stunning 8-bit resolution "fanservice" with armor for those willing to engage in Level Grinding for it. The heroine shows up to the fight in nothing but a Fur Bikini...then mentions she was taken by surprise and didn't have time to put on her armor. Later, she goes off and gets her armor...and it covers less than the Fur Bikini.
A much better use for chain mail bikinis is at private parties and cosplay gatherings. They are not ideal for the public so you will have to be at a secluded location or among friends. The Chascind robe (and its variants) is basically a swimsuit with Absolute Cleavage and furry shoulder pads when equipped on a female character. There is some humor on this subject when the City Watch in the Discworld novels starts recruiting female members and needs to find uniforms that fit them. This eventually becomes a running joke as the City Watch starts including members of all shapes and species, so being "in uniform" means wearing whatever parts of a uniform one can. The guys are fully clothed, but the girls are beyond Stripperiffic, wearing only chainmail thongs and chainmail pasties in the Arctic.In Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath, the Zone Raider infantry is introduced; it's a Distaff Counterpart to the male Zone Troopers from C&C 3. The Trooper armor is bulky and boxlike. The Raider armor is significantly more form fitting. Dressing in a one-piece swimsuit and some shoulderpads was practically standard for the SNES era's female characters. In the Tales (series), it's more surprising when a character wears actual functional armour, regardless of gender. Nanaly Fletch ( Tales Of Destiny 2) and Judith ( Tales of Vesperia) fit this trope to the letter. But the ultimate grand prize goes to Ronodline E. Effenberg [ dead link] from Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon X, who bears the most skin out of any (human) Tales (series) character, managing to wear nothing that could accurately be described as "protection". Most Ranger sets are similarly less armoring for females, most notably in Prophecies. There is an "Elite Studded Leather" miniskirt and the "Elite Druid" set that has less cloth than the undergarments you would have while "naked."
To say nothing of the nereids, although in this case it's somewhat justified, as they're an underwater race, and one really can't move around very well in heavy armor. She's a member of a Proud Warrior Race and is Made of Iron; the distraction bonus is worth a slight bit of extra risk.
Keep in mind that Jora was a Norn, and that she was an exception to her race given that aside from her, all Norns can turn into Bears- which sort of removes the point of wearing armor in the first place. In Kaena: The Prophecy, the title character wears basically some scraps of leather. This wouldn't be nearly as noticeable if the all the male human characters didn't wear more covering than the women. Yes, even the children. Later on, when she gets armour, she's told that it's for her "protection". She steps into the light, and the armour covers roughly the same amount of her as the leather did. Even more infuriating is that the alien who made her the armour is male, and he has a suit that fully covers his body.
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