Everyone secretly wants to dress like this but gender expression and modern fashion trends often get in the way.

At least half of the women I’ve met wanna dress like this and the other half wanna be Cottagecore 😅 Fascinated by the spectrum of desire

i want both

Bonus points if they put the men in all the skimpy clothing 🔥

I suspect a lot of women would be okay if they just had the morningstar and shield. A heavy spiked metal ball to the crotch would deter most men from troubling women.

I can confirm as a fellow woman.

I feel like I'm more of an archer than I knight to be honest

I couldn't be around a woman dressed like this because I would become uncontrollably horny and she would be forced to detain me in the Craic de Chevaliet.

Are we basically doing role reversal because I’m a guy who wants to be all cutesy in a pink dress <3

Literally me as a mechanic istg

Stumbled across this a few days back. Think it was meant to find you...

omg it was

LFG!!!!!

👌 me I was always a wizard

Go for it!!!!

No pockets though.

Hand bag anyone?

Yeah, but what else is new?

we got extra pouches for the coins

that’s what the squires are for

A squire named Pocket?

Would be more realistic than the inventory system in most rpgs.

Right! Okay, let's take a look in my bag, looks like 5 broken teeth and a live riding horse take up the same space. Weird.

😂🤣🤣

this too is yuri

“Nice armour” “Thanks it has squires”

they never give us pockets we’ll have to buy a purse

Her minions will carry her treasures

That's wat the valet is for!

I can assure you, guys want to dress like this too.

Absolutely true, let's normalize this smh!!!

@capitana40k.bsky.social tú que dices?

Si

And how some men want them to dress

oh? actually practical women's knight armour that isn't *just* meant to appeal to the male gaze? that's really nice for a change

Nice, but sadly you can’t just challenge them to a duel anymore. They could have at least leave this on the table.

@gothtatertot.bsky.social Hubba hubba, awwooogaa!

Yes, but steampunk.

Buying this for my girlfriend on our anniversary 🥰❤️

Pretty sure we want this in varying colors and more pockets

More so in Spain, with all the mandrils drooling around them and assaulting them on the streets.

Some of us want to dress like Ghost Rider, actually.

I mean,… if you want to. No one is stopping you.

Galadriel with pockets.

👍

Huh? You mean they NEED to dress that way IF MAGA has its way.

Toxic feminine ideals live in our heads, too. It's okay to just wear leather faulds - we don't always have to take an hour to do our full plate in the morning.

i think we all needed this 🙏

I'm more of a Barbute helmet kinda gal.

PLEASE HELP THIS MAN IF YOU SEE THIS. HE NEEDS TO EVACUATE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. HE IS IN A GENOCIDE. IF YOU HAVE A HEART, ANY AMOUNT IS APPRECIATED chuffed.org/project/1377...

Yes yes and so many more times yes!

If we both want to wear armor, why don’t we WEAR ARMOR?! ohrightmoney

Well, to be fair, if you offered men the ability to wear a skirt, sandals, helmet and lorica segmentata combination every day, they wouldn't say no.

youtu.be/S1TTLtxzNTU?...

hey good lookin’

They should. Then walk around a Mace men in their Chestnuts 🌰 🌰 until they stop acting like troglodytes.

Pole arm or long sword

both

I see i prefer the Morningstar or flail

Dress for the "male gaze". 😻😻😻

*Mail gaze

I love a heavily armed woman in plate armour. It’s should be encouraged. There would be a lot of one armed or headless men around, which is always a bonus.😂❤️

Now THATS warmaiden material right there

But if no booba plat how know is womans? How? (Now if you'll excuse me I must cleanse myself in the fires of gay after this joke)

Who doesn't tho? That looks badass!

So women want to be Brienne of Tarth

Yes, yes we do

I would kneel in heartfelt respect for that.

Some of us already dress like this :3

What I really want is for all wlw and sure yes all women to have plot armor, this is a start.

Add a cock plate

Yes.👀

Some of us anyway. 👍

My wife says this is true

This is actually a very functional, well thought out outfit for women who might unexpectedly run into men in the woods.

Leyaria inspired that.

How men actually wanted to dress

This is true

PLEEAASEEE. PPLLEEEAAAASSSEEEE. I NEED A DATE WHERE ME AND A GIRL ARE IN FULL ARMOR AND PRACTICING HEMA

It seems my desires align with womens. I mean it always does, but this time especially.

What's stopping them?

but how she dresses

But does it breathe and have pockets?

Weirdly sorta? Depending on the climate it's not that bad. As for pockets, these are from the heady, ancient days when you just strapped as many pockets to your belt as your heart desires.

Nice!

🤣🤣😭

I say bring it back 🗡️ 🛡️

Claymore 🫶🏽

I'm all for this!

Would be cool, but I'm too chonky a lass for that armour.

You may not like it, but that is what peak femininity looks like

But no pockets?

Can confirm

This or medieval-type-of dresses

@bonniebon.bsky.social

Chivalry belongs to the lesbians!

this is so real. I want armor more than anything else atm tbh

HOW DID YOU KNOW?????

i am women!!!

How dareth ye spill our secrets to the world…….. As revenge I challenge thee to a duel.. swords at dawn… be there…

in terms of looks, yes. in terms of putting it on... *painful sigh*

Like this comment, I'd follow you. Pls reciprocate

"So, do you come here most nights ?"

EVERYONE would dress in plate armor if it were societally acceptable. Man, woman and everything in between.

Women don't like bikini armor? 🤔 All those RPGs I played lied to me 😱

Anti trump wear

I’d love it if women dressed like this. I just help but feel hot and bothered by women in armor ;)

i mean, same

@pangolinfox.bsky.social it's both of us

Change "want" to "need"

My Skyrim character and followers we're all women with the most badass armor you could possibly find on The mod list. All of my buffs came from armor and extra rings and even piercings with their own buffs. Armor was rated to be cohesive with the game standards.

I would also like to dress like that

Full marks for no boobplate (h/t to Jill Bearup)!

From other women. Let’s be real women can be just as crazy as men.

👏 Women 👏 protect 👏 women 👏

What about cockroaches?

literallyyyyy

Some women truly live in a fantasy world. It’s not just protecting from “who”, but from “what”. Men build and maintain the electric grid, sewers, etc. but are also almost exclusively the rescue workers after tsunamis, power outages, earthquakes, etc. Women need to be more grateful & stop bitching.

I’d give it 2 days tops, and then all hell would break loose.

For one wild animals. I do find it funny when say women get attacked by Moose or Bears they get real mad if men don't risk their lives to intervene.

[user was finally sent to a desperately needed involuntary psychiatric hold they for this post]

But they can’t wear plate in this mail-centric world

99.99% of today's womenwouldn't even come close to fitting in it.

👆 this is why we need it

The Strong one's that do..........

I’m ok with normalizing this. Would hair go inside the helmet or out of the top like a ponytail feather plume?

i like the plume!!

What if an enemy grabs onto it in combat? Could happen with an ordinary feather plume too, but would be less effective/painful. Perhaps some defensive enchantment is in order?

you know this did cross my mind, i would think a warding enchantment may sort it out or perhaps something involving poison….

If you’re going with “nature tends to brightly color poisonous things” would you have to dye the hair bright green or something if it was gonna be poisoned?

Armour used to be painted before Victorians started insisting on displaying armour plain and polished. Just paint all the plates. Hello Kitty theme?

Same with castles. When they were built, they were decorated with bright colours and murals. Survivors' bias makes us think they're all plain grey stone.

i didn’t know this!!

yes please

i feel like this could be the start of a playable character

Poison is cunning, but would have to be very fast acting, and somehow effect a foe who had only grasped (possibly with a gauntlet). A electric-eel-tail spell that makes any who touch it go like is probably better:

"I love a plume" - The Doctor

LOL Well this triggered a memory of a decades-old interview with Corey Taylor about Slipknot's original masks, and I think you definitely want the hair inside the helmet with a plume attached to the outside of the helmet.

Me too.

Lol😆

Perfect clothing for a day at the beach

hot

If my wife walked in wearing that, I might actually have to go to the hospital from swooning so hard.

Makes sense—They ALREADY imagine they’re Joan of Arc. 🙄

Yesssssss!

OK, but this might make a girdle feel like heaven. But then again, it's tough out there right now...

So true

Looks uncomfortable.

i don't enjoy the Idea of being in a hot ass metal suit in the dead of summer.

So basically...

Idk how I didn't think of Samus

Oop, just connected a couple dots.

Don't fight any musketeers!

This but change it to a closed sallet

I would love to see that. I'd settle for Spartan, Mandalorian, Samus, or other armors, too. My options are flexible. 😊

Not with hot flashes, we don’t. 😭

Hell yeah!

Respect. Though, I respect the women that want high heels and pretty dresses. You live your life how it suits you, as long as you don't hurt others or yourself to live it.

It's looks heavy... so no thank you 🤣

Tricky in heels

Go for it! But carry a raincoat.

Hilde from soul caliber is gender goals

If you're going alone to places you shouldn't, and messing with monsters, that's exactly how you should dress.

Women in full plate armor? I support this

Dating is basically dark souls anyway so... Why the hell not

just a tip: wearing platemail in the summer heat can suck passed out fell on my ass from heat stroke. many many many years ago. :)

ok but what an awesome story you have now (glad you’re ok!)

yeah I wanted to run body wanted to fall hydrate.... hehe from that day forward, I preferred chainmail it breaths still have it or most of it. Now it sits on a shelf at least for the last 25 years.

Good fucking Gods Below, I WANT TO HAVE THIS SO BAD

Going to have to tweak my filters if NSFW stuff like this keeps popping up.

Jokes on you, I get turned on by really great blocks and parries

Abso-fucking-lutely!

Why is it that everything suggested for women to wear doesn't have pockets?

maybe they’re in the back!

Armor is great because you can add belts and other garters to put in your various items such as scabbards, daggers, and other equipment. You have as many pockets as you want to have, while still looking functional and it working with the aesthetic!

Some guy, still: Come on, give us a smile!’ Her: *pulls sword*

Loving this post and comments.

All the peasants in her dms like "Madame. Thou hast not replied to my letter. Prithee did thou enjoy my phallus tapestry?"

I also want women to dress this way I'm just saying

Hell yeah!!

💯

yes....

Yes

Me in FFXIV

Then why don't more women support each other. You are 51% of the population and an old unqualified white man has won over a women twice now. Yes men are shit, this has been a truth for all of human kind. I wish women would put other women in power already. Men are idiots.

Joan Of Arc, Empress Maltida

More of a case of how women 'need' to dress given the preposterous levels of rape and domestic violence against women... Men are such treasures!

The patterning is nice, but there's something VERY wrong with that neck area.😱

just throw on a scarf

This is legitimately such a well timed reference for something I'm trying to work on...

Yes please! So sexy!

The caption placement is distracting from that cool ass set.

Couldn't help noticing that amusingly put detail... "Also, Intolerance? No never heard of her!"

Do the mods get to even make jokes like this? :3

Marked as intolerance lmao

Pffft!! No woman would ever wear this. No boob armor with open cleavage! If i learnt one thing from computer games and D&D, it's that all women's armor have massive boobs moulded into it and the top part is open so the skin & cleavage is exposed. To distract the enemy, of course...

Huh, I always thought it was for ventilation. Without it their breasts would overheat and melt...

They just said that so they could wear them in religious wars. It was always about the sexy sex and using devilish womanly wiles to tempt innocent fellow-me-blokes.

Not if there gay

No matter where I go, there you gay.

cant stop being gay just like people cant stop being straight

If the gay was legalized the kids wouldn't be so fascinated by it.

It was legalized finally and kids who are gay can be openly gay. 1 percent are gay. You acting as though being gay lesbian trans is a choice. It isn't. Like how you say can't you be straight for the day. Tell me if gay is a choice when did you chose to be straigjt

#Slayqueen

i will keep that in mind next time i'm shopping

Yes queen... slay... slay... SLAY YOUR ENEMIES KWEEN, LET THE BLOOD SHED OVER YOUR ENEMIES QUEEN

With or without the unreasonably large greatsword?

Well, no one could accuse you of sending mixed signals! 🙃 Hot and noisy and uncomfortable tho. Chain mail made out of tungsten or something lightweight but strong would get the point across. Or maybe a strategically reinforced leather spacer suit.

😂

Yeah, but also, fashionable. I wanna wear an arm guard I made without "No, I'm not a 'white knight' and I'm explaining shit your grandkids that are full adults say, AGAIN, DELORES." or "I CAN HAVE A SWORD PURSE, LEGALLY, SHARON. YOUR 'LITCH KING TRAUMA' CAN BE FILED UNDER 'IDC' BY MONDAY."

Suddenly men start carrying can openers.

I already have one .

So do boys lol

@fleurdemiche.bsky.social

Brienne of Tarth has entered the chat.

Honestly society would be 20 times better if it was socially acceptable for people to unironically don full plated armour in public

*Actually* actually, different women have different preferences as to dress.

that’s fair but this is definitely what i want!

hell yeah

That looks hot and probably is.

You say that now; try walking around in that noise (wait, actually literally too, yeah) for a few hours; you might be changing your mind a bit. (Granted, still can want to be dressed in a way that covers you, but Lords of Kobol, those were extra uncomfortable.)

Can't be worse than high heels

All I'm gonna say is, if you can ever find a place that let's you try on Sabatons, (specifically the metal ones that would complete this ensemble), do so. You might change your mind just on the footwear...

I want it

As far as combat goes in medieval fantasy roleplaying and similar adventure games, this is the most appropriate thing. Especially if it makes you feel comfortable and strong.

I advice everyone to go for a stainless steel version.

Don't underestimate the power of girls.

I mean, isn't everyone?

It's true

Only if it has pockets!

ArmorAll?

If you’re into BDSM, no, thanks, not interested. Not particularly interested in cosplay either as it wouldn’t do much for my hot flashes and in cold weather, I rather imagine would be chilly. Anything else ya got?

Who does BDSM in full plate armor?! Also, the armor wouldn't be too chilly. Underneath the armor would be a thick gambeson and an arming jacket. Otherwise, it would just hurt to wear and wouldn't protect that much. The real problem is how heavy it is. Gambesons alone are 15 pounds.

I would still hit on you joust to see you flail .

i’m not even mad

Fair thee well good knight . He jester in me can’t help but show his ass sometimes .

Thee not He …. Technology fails me again .

…maybe just have a laugh and fart in his general direction

Or Waggle my private parts at his nanny .

I heard a rumour that the Knights who say “Ni!” were ninnies towards their nannies.

Hot asf

I don’t think I know anyone who would wish to stop this from happening. Quick question, are the men folk still allowed to to leer, or will this be followed by summary execution? Asking for a friend.

The only important Question in this Picture is: Are you Sword- or a Warhammer-Girl? Or even *Gasp* a Spear-Girl?

👍

Can confirm

From the Joan of Arc collection.

Uh, no, especially not in summer.

i’m wearing this inside with air conditioning

Beauty is pain, dahling *fans self even though the armor blocks the breeze*

Beauty is never pain. I know this whole thing was a joke, but when we have men calling us "host bodies," I find it hard to laugh about the need to protect ourselves.

I don't think that was the intention. I think the original post was about being a badass and wearing something cool as fuck and not worrying about whether it's "feminine enough". At least, that's how I took it, because why would a woman WANT to have to wear armor to protect herself from men?

*wasnt, i hate this hellscape we live in

you’re right, my original intention was to share cool as fuck armor that wasn’t for men bc i’d love to wear something like this! it wasn’t a comment on the current political climate that has once again emboldened men to claim their entitlement to our bodies & i wish that was something ever present

Same post, different viewpoints.

Super weird that you conflate wants with needs but okay, just don't judge someone's intention based on you choosing to view it differently.

I didn't "choose" to view it differently. I just did. I don't know what's so weird, super or otherwise, about people seeing things differently.

You are making a choice to continue interpreting the meme in a completely different way than the OP intended (they have even said as much in response). The weird part is you reading "want" and taking that to mean "need" in a context of systemic patriarchal abuse.

Oh please. I'm not trying to get in an argument with anyone or misconstrue the poster's intentions. This isn't the evening news, this is a place where people can exchange ideas, impressions, pictures, jokes, whatever. Lighten up. This kind of idea policing ruins everyone's fun.

You're literally policing jokes by twisting them into something negative but go off lol

Undyne style Although I know more at least

Every time I play Elden Ring I basically try to make this fit.

Actually, do you have this without the text? Or information on where this armor is from? I'd like to read up on it if it's, like, actual armor that's historic or made for a movie or something.

i found it here! i tried to find the historical source but was unable to (history MA student) - my feeling is it’s a modern rpg reproduction but im still digging! can you let me know if you find any info? www.instagram.com/p/DM3XKPjJZj...

After a little looking it was a 3D test render by Eoin Cannon, source here: eoincannon.blogspot.com/2013/10/unfi... The ecranche over spaulder on field armour threw me for a loop for a second and sent me looking, but always love a good set of plate armour, inaccuracies or no =)

thank you so much!!!!!

No problem! It was going to bug me too if I hadn't gone to find it =P

do you or @negativesilence.bsky.social have any good resources for learning more about historical armor? i’d love to do a deep dive

I don't have an individual good source unfortunately. I just hyperfixate, and dive deeper any time I come across armour somewhere

That's a really GOOD render, damn. :o

Aha! There we go, that's a good find. Alas, I would have loved to see it from other angles, or at least see what weapon they're holding. Some sort of mace maybe from the handle.

Apparently death of the hard drive killed the project, so we've only got the one test render, but it certainly looked well developed!

I will take a look! I don't know if I'm any better at researching then you tho. It's probably not historic, would be my guess, since it's got a bit too much detail for anything but a noble but also a little too much clean damage for war, but who knows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

YEEESSS!!!

Fr

I had the pleasure of wearing plate armor for a performance at a renaissance fair. I hope never to do so again. 🙃

please let a girl dream

Hey I’m supportive, just too lazy to do it myself. I think everyone should try it once just so they know how difficult it is.

God you got to so it again

The great great great grandmother of Ritsuko Akagi.

Eh...it looks heavy...

Preferred attire when visiting Mar a Lago.

I've had a conversation about this, and I stated that I would wear a suit of armor all the time if I could.

True!

The reason:

Good outfits are so expensive 😭