I'm glad somebody finally noticed and bothered to post about it
When we started designing the armors, we decided that both male and female armors should closely resemble one another. We also didn't want to go in the direction most games tend to go, namely to have the female warrior wear almost nothing, while the male counter-part is clad in armor from his toes to his "hairtips".
But it's true that we chose look in favor of "ease-of-use": the silhouettes had to look cool, we didn't care if the armor would work in real-life or not.
