You can still make some outfits that are practical and feminine. It doesn’t necessarily need to be sexy or skin revealing. You’d be surprise with the combination and dyes you can use to make some decent outfits without mods(Credit to the third place fashion contestant for my thralls outfit).
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I’m reading some stuff thanks to you. It’s really interesting how the cultures were progressing side by side and influencing each others.
From what I understand:
Minoan civilization ( island of Crete circa 2000-1400 BCE) + Mycenaean civilization (mainland 1600–1200 BCE) + Egyptian civilization (3100 BCE) = models of inspiration for Ancient Greece
Sari-like forms of clothing (India 2800-1800 BCE) still exist to this day.
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Glad I could impart some humble bit of knowledge to sate your curiosities. 
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During pyramid building Egypt the majority of the commoner was nude.
That’s 4500 years ago. Before this even less people were wearing clothes.
When the new testament writes on Jesus “he got up and clothed himself” it means exactly this.
2000 years ago people would dress against the sun during travels, otherwise they would not wear clothes at all.
Wait. The first Christians appeared during the Roman area. The Romans were clothed 
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Yeah… his response is actually false. But this isn’t the place for that. The Biblical passage he mentioned about Jesus actually meant something completely different and has been discussed numerous times by Biblical scholars in detail. Yet, as I’ve said, let’s leave that for another discussion. This is not the place to discuss Biblical semantics.
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Yes! Someone like me! More pirate outfits! 
Because munition armour was much more rare.
While weapons were often ubiquitous (but not always, the Soviet habit of having unarmed back ranks expected to pick up the weapons of the fallen front rank were not exactly new, altho they had fallen out of vogue well before the age of pike and powder), armour was far less so.
Only the most powerful or wealthy hegemonies could afford to mass produced armour. For the majority of combatants, they wore what they could acquire. Uniformity was something reserved for only the mightiest of ancient fighting forces. Romans, Persians, Imperial Chinese. Even then, those mass produced harnesses were often modular, being compose of mail or lames that could be added to or removed to accommodate varying bodies. This also made them significantly more easy to repair.
Often an individual commander might see to the armour of their personal units, but even then, mass production was extremely rare.
That’s not say that armour didn’t follow trends, in times and places mail shirts, layered linen, or lamellar jacks might be the expected way of guarding one’s sweet meats, but they didn’t have racks of these hanging at ye olde armour store.
“Crow’s mail” or other scavenged panoplies were extremely common. The majority of armoured jacks were custom affairs. It wasn’t until the Renaissance that we see munition plate, and then that’s mostly limited to cuirasses and only in the wealthier of city states on the Italian peninsula.
So, while absolutely correct, that at a glance armour for ladies vs armour for gents would be basically identical (a mail haubregon, aketon, or brigandine jack), it less from the mass production process that we see in the modern era and more from the realities of the battle field in the pre industrial revolution.
This is also mostly what would be classed in game as heavy or medium armour. Light armours include so much clothing and random bits of costume that this one is surprised we haven’t seen woad body marking as an alternative Pictish light armour.
In the case of active wear clothing, Roman gladiator style partial guards, and other “light” armour, it’s going to be significantly more apparent the difference between girly parts or boy parts accomodations than weightier and more protective sets.
This one brings up Roman Gladiator sets because the asymmetrical, significant amount of skin showing, is something of a staple of inspirational art for the genre. Armour designed to be both functional (in a specific and limited capacity) as well as decorative is not at all ahistorical, it’s just part of a specific niche of combatant entertainment.
I wouldn’t hold your breath on anything like this. Look at the Darfari top variation between male and female.
Doesn’t really make sense. There’s statues we can build with a breast exposed, but not on armour.
Not sure why this isn’t just changed with the nudity setting 
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If you play on a private server you can use the Commando mod, which includes exposed versions of armor.
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Appreciate the info mate, but not everybody is on PC. If I could load a few mods in my private PlayStation server, I would.
However, this was more towards future content. Would Funcom allow these armours / clothings in game? I’m thinking not.
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The notion to only allow defunct nipples to be shown developed as recent as in the 19th century in the west. It had quite some impact though, as the Victorian empire was at the height of its power. During the French revolution Liberté still was depicted as fighting barebreasted in European climate.
My profile pic checking in.
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I couldn’t help it. I had to click on your profile picture. I am laughing so hard, my belly is hurting 
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It was more inspiration, rather than accuracy. Minoan female attire was actually pretty flashy. Even if it’s not full exposure, the artistry in the outfits are pretty nice.
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Not to be rude, but please, this is a fashion topic, not a lesson on historical accuracy of belief systems. If you keep going off topic about it, you’ll get flagged.
thank you for making my point
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