On one occasion I was just steps ahead of Stacey as we both walked into the local Post Office and I had the perfect opportunity to calmly turn around and say something to him...instead I put my head down as though I hadn't noticed him, walked straight out of the building to the parking lot and into my van. I couldn't seem to get enough air in my lungs, my head felt light, my mouth was cotton-ball dry, my peripheral vision was closing in on me and of course my palms were drenched. I was relieved just to reach my vehicle and hide myself inside. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12913821/9/Game-and-Bleach Game and Bleach]]'': Both Ichigo and Tatsuki put on some ogre armor they find in a dungeon only to learn that it's basically a leather bikini for her and some straps and a pair of chaps for him. They both lose several minutes staring at each other.

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.Also there's Sergeant Colon, who fits his Roman-Centurion-esque breastplate "like jelly fits a mould", and Detritus, a massive troll who ''can't'' fit all his muscles into ''his'' armor. And, it should be mentioned, his armor was originally fitted for a war elephant. James''' There’s a golden breastplate done in a vaguely organic style next. The… ah… chest… is a little [[BreastExpansion bigger than I think Taylor is naturally]], but still done in a sensible single-breasted, high-coverage style. None of that pseudo-bodice lift-and-separate, [[LampshadeHanging guide-swords-to-the-center nonsense]] you see in fantasy games. Or on most armor-wearing female capes. The entire piece also extends down to her belt, instead of leaving room to show off abs and ask to be gutted. Despite the preceding paragraph, this trope does indeed have male examples, particularly when the goal is to portray male fighters as super-macho and/or 'uncivilized'. {{Barbarian Hero}}es and [[PostApunkalypticArmor post-apocalyptic tribe members]] tend to be depicted as {{Walking Shirtless Scene}}s: you might add one big pauldron, a pair of forearm bracers, and an armored belt or loincloth, but nothing that would obscure those chiseled pecs and abs. At the downplayed end you can have an armor version of SleevesAreForWimps to show off their muscular arms. There is debate about whether half-naked male warriors in fiction are sexually objectified in the same way as female ones, or whether a heroic, muscular body is merely part of the power fantasy that the male audience is encouraged to vicariously live through. It does seem, however, that at least some male examples are intended as legit fanservice. Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': In the "W" segment, the warrior woman fighting the giant walrus is clad in a bikini made of leather and metal.

Usually when you include sexy characters in a work, you want to put them in revealing clothing for maximum {{fanservice}}. But what if these characters are warriors who are expected to wear armor into battle? Whether the technology of the setting calls for mail shirts, full plate armor, ballistic vests, or SpaceMarine suits, most types of practical armor hide all the "good parts" under layers of protection. Alas, what's a creator to do? Well, if you aren't particularly worried about realism, you can dress them in something that kind of ''looks'' like armor, but is [[RuleOfSexy designed to show off the wearer's skin and secondary sex characteristics with seemingly no concern for safety or defensive usefulness]]. The inhabitants of Athena's Sanctuary also wear leather armor that basically amounts to this [[TwentyFourHourArmor all the time]]. Shaina, Marin, Aiolia and Aiolos, who are Saints, wear ones with metallic parts as their casual wear, on which they put their Cloths when they expect to go in combat (leather armor being basically useless for the kind of battles fought by Saints). Upon her return, Shangri-La began normal operations out of San Diego, primarily engaged in pilot carrier landing qualifications. In May 1946, she sailed for the Central Pacific to participate in Operation Crossroads, the atomic bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atoll. Following this, she made a brief training cruise to Pearl Harbor, then wintered at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. In March 1947, she deployed again, calling at Pearl Harbor and Sydney, Australia. When she returned to the United States, Shangri-La was decommissioned and placed in the Reserve Fleet at San Francisco on 7 November 1947. Although you can group them with some other extreme swimwear based on the traits (they are oftentimes a see-through product), they have everything to do with fantasy as they have with swimming. That being said, you can also easily categorize them as cosplay products.

How and where to use chainmail bikini?

Parodied in the comic series ''Comicbook/CerebusTheAardvark'': when 'Red Sophia' tries to seduce Cerebus by removing the top of her chainmail bikini, he snidely retorts that the swelling ought to go down eventually if she'd stop wearing it. Proving that the trope is not female-only, classic films such as ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'' play up the image of the muscular warrior who wears less than many professional wrestlers -- loincloth, boots, and nothing more -- despite fighting many opponents with bladed weapons. Although I hadn't yet mustered the courage to speak to Stacey, I continued asking locals if they knew of him. A young man who filled my propane tank, when asked, said he knew Stacey. "Good People, married to a big happy lady - they call her Mama Fish - works at Trees of Mystery...He lives just up the road, past Requa, past Minot Creek, next street on the right - way up at the end... big yellow house"...Repeating "He's Good People".

Literature/TheLightlarkSaga'': During a duel early in the Centennial, Isla dons an outfit that - while [[DownplayedTrope not as hugely revealing]] as some examples - is more fashionable and fanservice-y than practical, including thigh-high metal plated boots, "chain metal tights", a breastplate that "accentuated her figure", metal shoulder pads and not much else. Hippolyta's most iconic Golden age outfit had a "top" that consisted of two conical metal cups over her breasts and some straps to hold it on. Other than co-workers from my RV Park, I don't know many people in Klamath, at least not the kind of people I can phone and say 'hey' to. At home I could be doing something as simple as putting out the trash and end up making arrangements with a friend or neighbor to go for coffee, see a movie, hike a hill...any number of things. But here in Klamath there is no one to do that with except when friends come to visit (my thanks to all of you who have made the trek to Klamath!!! Barb, Howard, Rob, Mary, Joyce, Doris and then the Ignatius's again, Mom, Cak, Jay, then Steve and Mark and later Kevin and Anne). So as I finish my fourth month here in Klamath I have come to cherish the few times Stacey and I have had together. Worn by the Amazastanians (a warrior race that consists solely of stunningly attractive women with physical ages of 18 to 20) in ''Series/DoctorWho'' comic strip "The Green-Eyed Monster" in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' (although this entire adventure might just be a delusion of Rose's).

About This Game

In ''Fanfic/OffTheLine'', any armor the Viera wear turns into this. Its impracticality is lampshaded twice: when Rainstorm fights a monster he gets whipped in his vulnerable bare mid-section. Rainstorm kills a woman by piercing her heart when he steps on her because all she wore on her mid-section was a corset. Red XII notes that most Viera tend to be long-distance fighters like archers and mages which tend to negate the inherent disadvantage.