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So any chest plate would needs a couple inches clearance from the chest because people need to breathe and thus chest need room to expand. Also having your plate touching any part of your chest makes it even more susceptible to hammers as now your plate is bent in to your likely broken ribs and your chest can no longer expand to breathe.

So the idea that women would have individual breast cups that their boobs would presumably fit in is completely silly. As a a large concaved plate like a men would have would be more than adequate. Boob would also effectively turn the cleavage into an wedge. One good whack with a weapon and that wedge is now an axehead lined up perfectly on your sternum.

Don't get me wrong there have been breast plates with breasts on them. But they were almost always decorative and put on top of a normal breast plate, not places for boobs to go in. Also they were on nobility who were not actually going to fight. Which is good since said breast would hinder articulation of the arms.