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). While the armour isn't metal, there are metal chains holding the pieces together, which is a nice touch. Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'': Specifically, ''[[Literature/TalesOfSupervillainyCindysSeven Tales of Supervillainy: Cindy's Seven]]''. As an {{Expy}} of Red Sonja, Red Sindi apparently wore one of these during the Hyborian Age. Cindy briefly becomes obsessed with acquiring it so she can wear it as part of her supervillain costume. It apparently is enchanted to be better than actual armor.

Ursula Andress was born in 1936, in Ostermundigen, in the Swiss canton Bern, as one of seven children in a German Protestant family. Her father Rolf Andress was a German diplomat who disappeared during World War II, and her Swiss mother, Anna, was a gardener. Although often seeming icily aloof, a restless streak early demonstrated itself in her personality, and she had a desire from an early age to explore the world outside Switzerland. At 17, she ran away with an Italian actor, then returned home after her mother intervened. She studied painting, sculpture and dance in Paris. Andress started her career as an art model in Rome, which led to her first roles in the Italian film industry. (Some sources claim that she was on a holiday to Rome at the time). She played small roles in the Italian farces Un americano a Roma/An American in Rome (1954, Steno), La catena dell'odio/The Chain of Hate (1955, Renato Baldini) and Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova/Adventures of Giacomo Casanova (1955, Steno), which focused on her impressive physical attributes. Eventually, due in part to the patronage of paramour Marlon Brando, she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures and went to Hollywood heralded as the New Marlene Dietrich. Actually the only things she had in common with Dietrich were her (partly) German heritage and magnificent legs. In Hollywood she had a troubled relationship with James Dean. One tabloid reported at the time that Dean was learning German so they could "argue in another language". On the day of his death (30 September 1955), Dean asked her to go with him to San Francisco in his Porsche 550 Spyder, but he left Los Angeles without her. She had met actor and pretty-boy John Derek and had fallen in love with him. They married in 1957, and Ursula dropped out of film-making for several years thereafter.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. Parodied in ''[[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes L.E.G.I.O.N.]] 007'', a TuxedoAndMartini spoof. Stealth, the Girl from L.E.G.I.O.N., is outfitted with a ''bulletproof'' bikini. Sure enough, when two graduates of the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy start shooting at her, we see bullets bouncing off the bikini, and apparently not hitting her anywhere else.

It's made a bit more practical in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' with the advent of "micromail", chainmail made from many, many small links that, as is [[RunningGag repeatedly stated]], doesn't chafe... and it's later demonstrated that a pair of boxer shorts made from the stuff can ''literally deflect a blow from a sledgehammer''. While this trope is a possibility, its ''intended'' use is as dwarf underwear (since they refuse to wear anything but leather and metal). Occasionally, someone will claim (in-universe or out) that Wonder Woman's swimsuit-like outfit is supposed to be armor. Red Sonja is not super familiar to me, but I'm aware of her character. While there is much depth to the character, but it generally boils down to Red Sonja being assaulted and swearing revenge, and is blessed with top notch Barbarian fighting prowess in exchange for a life of not getting laid unless she is bested in combat by the man in question. In ''WesternAnimation/KaenaTheProphecy'', the title character wears [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3411908608/tt0297753 basically some scraps of leather]]. This wouldn't be nearly as noticeable if ''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. caption-width-right:319:Now available in [[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian His]] and [[ComicBook/RedSonja Hers]].]]One ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' strip discussed this trope, with [[MsFanservice Dixie]] modeling it and Phil pointing out its flaws. Phil eventually outfits her with a still somewhat sexy but ''far'' more practical outfit; Dixie then declares that "it's [his] turn", strips him down to nothing but a loincloth and a dagger, and pits him against a dragon.

The face is... kind of blah. It's not just Sonja.. it's the entire 1/12 line up. Some of their 1/6 stuff is alright, but the vast majority of them look just awful considering these are licensed figures. The overall points of articulation were definitely plentiful and something I'm used to (depending on the figure, of course) but range of motion is what makes this body spectacular and will hold up, presuming you don't anything super extreme. ComicStrip/SnarfQuest'': Some of Telerie's choices for combat attire are questionable; such as a chainmail shirt that just covers her breasts and a LadyLegionnaireWear skirt, leaving both her midriff and her legs bare.

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